The Grass Creek Deposit, southern segment is a titanium mine located in Hot Springs county, Wyoming at an elevation of 5,463 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,463 Feet (1,665 Meters)
Commodity: Titanium
Lat, Long: 43.9111, -108.60890
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Grass Creek Deposit, southern segment MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Grass Creek Deposit, southern segment
Secondary: Grass Creek Deposits #2
Secondary: Grass Creek Deposit
Secondary: Grass Creek Deposits
Secondary: Grass Creek Basin
Commodity
Primary: Titanium
Secondary: Zirconium
Secondary: Thorium
Tertiary: Iron
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Hot Springs
Land Status
Land ownership: Federal
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: Unknown
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Unknown
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Middle Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Zircon
Ore: Rutile
Ore: Monazite
Ore: Anatase
Ore: Ilmenite
Ore: Magnetite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): "The southern segment is poorly exposed and broken up by {...] small normal fauts. Black sandstone crops out sporadically over a distance of more than 1,600 ft" and has a maximum exposed thikckness of 3.5 ft. near its east edge.
Comment (Deposit): RELATIVE PERCENTAGES OF HEAVY MINERALS PRESENT ARE OPAQUES, ZIRCON.
References
Reference (Deposit): HOUSTON, R.S., AND LOVE, J.D., 1956, TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE IN MARINE ROCKS OF LATE JURASSIC AGE, NORTHWESTERN WYOMING: WYOMING GEOL. ASSOC. ANN. FIELD CONF., 11TH, GUIDEBOOK, JACKSON HOLE, P. 72-74.
Reference (Deposit): Wilson, W.H., 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bulletin 50, p. 194-195.
Reference (Deposit): Houston, R.S., and Murphy, J.F., 1962, Titaniferous black sandstone deposits of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bulletin 49, p. 91-94.
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