The Jesse Prospect is a copper mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming at an elevation of 8,228 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,228 Feet (2,508 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 41.0211, -106.85170
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Jesse Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Jesse Prospect
Secondary: Umslopagus Group
Secondary: Scott Mine
Secondary: Unknown
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1902
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
Type: L
Structure: NW trending foliation; NW trending fault LESS THAN 0.5 mi. toSW
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Malachite
Comments
Comment (Identification): This is an Unknown site, not part of the Umslopagus Group. It was misidentified in the original MAS database (0560070401) 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, then determined that it fit the description and location given fror W900052, Jesse Prospect.
Comment (Location): Shaft shown on topo. Supposedly there are 2 shafts.
Comment (Geology): "Malachite occurs at the intersection (contact?) of amphibolite and pegmatite. Two shafts have been sunk here." (Bull. 50, p. 49).
Comment (Reference): Terry Klein's Jesse Prospect cites "Hauff, 1986, p. 59-66" but this reference was not found in Georef or the USGS library.
References
Reference (Deposit): Spencer, 1904, Copper deposits of the Encampment District, Wyoming: USGS PP-25, p. 40, 46, pl. 1.
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 179.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 49.
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