The Cobar No. 1 is a mine located in Albany county, Wyoming at an elevation of 6,004 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,004 Feet (1,830 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 41.77972, -105.35000
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Cobar No. 1 MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cobar No. 1
Secondary: Laramie Range
Secondary: Cobar No. 1 Mine
Secondary: Cobar #1-Plicoflex Inc
Secondary: Magnetite Products Corp.
Commodity
Tertiary: Iron
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Albany
District: None
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Type: Private Lease
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Plicoflex Inc.
Home Office: Wyoming
Info Year: 1976
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1956
Discovery Year: 1850
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Ilmenite
Comments
Comment (General): "Magnetite Products Corp. (now Plicoflex, Inc.) formerly mined magnetite from an open-pit. In 1962, the company moved its operations to Iron Mountain." Bull. 50, p. 108.
Comment (Deposit): REF 1 IFOC MINERAL PROPERTY FILES FILE NO. 34.1 (DIMENSIONS [Copied from the references section]
Comment (Identification): Mine shown as Iron on Geological Survey of Wyoming's "Mineas and Minerals Map of Wyoming" in the equivalent of Sec. 2 appears to be an error based on the incorrect section in Bull. 50. ABW could find no indication of a mine in Sec. 2. The location given as sec. 21 in IC-8315 is assumed to be the correct location.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): RESERVES CALCULATED FROM AVERAGE DIMENSIONS ASSUMING AVERAGE AND DEPTH TO BE 1/2 OF MAXIMUM (REF 1) - PRODUCTION TO OF 150000 LONG TONS WAS SUBTRACTED TO ARRIVE AT RESERV
Comment (Location): E2 of sec. 21 (IC-8315, p. 15). Supposed location in Sec. 2 in Bull. 50, p. 108, appears to be a typo. There is a prospect on MF-119 in Sec. 21. There are no prospects in Sec. 2. Sec. 2 is mapped as hornblende syenite, not anorthosite, and therefore is unlikely to host this deposit, based on the two brief deposit descriptions not mentioning syenite. The mines and minerals map of Wyoming (1970) appears to propagate this error. Nor is there any indication of surface or road disturbances in Sec. 2.
References
Reference (Deposit): Wilson, W.H., 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bulletin 50, p. 108.
Reference (Deposit): Harrer, C.M., 1966, Wyoming iron-ore deposits: USBM IC-8315, p. 15.
Reference (Deposit): REF 2 GEOLOGIC SURVEY OF WYOMING, BULLETIN NO. 31 (GRADE INF [12-15-09, A.B. Wilson unable to determine where Cobar is in this reference]
Reference (Deposit): REF 1 IFOC MINERAL PROPERTY FILES FILE NO. 34.1 (DIMENSIONS [12-15-09, A.B. Wilson unable to verify this reference]
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