The Umslopagus Group is a copper mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming at an elevation of 7,920 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 7,920 Feet (2,414 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 41.16944, -106.78806
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Umslopagus Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Umslopagus Group
Secondary: Unknown
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Bornite
Comments
Comment (Identification): This is an Unknown site, not part of the Umslopagus Group. It was misidentified in the original MAS database (0560070404) as Umslopagus because it is after that site in Bull. 50 but identified only by PLSS location and no name. A.B. Wilson changed the name of this record from Umslopagus to Unknown.
Comment (Geology): "A caved shaft driven on the contact of a quartz vein in amphibolite shows bornite and minor chalcopyrite on the dump." bull. 50, p. 50.
References
Reference (Deposit): Ferris, 1964, Petrology and structure of the Precambrian rocks southeast of Encmpment, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyo. PhD dissertation, 74 p.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 50.
Reference (Deposit): Ryan, 1988, Mineral Inestigation of the Encmapment Wilderness Study Area (WY-030-301), Carbon County, Wyoming: USBM MLA 17-88, pl. 1, p. 17, #59.
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