The Sand Creek is a tin mine located in Crook county, Wyoming at an elevation of 5,846 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,846 Feet (1,782 Meters)
Commodity: Tin
Lat, Long: 44.3642, -104.06500
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Sand Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sand Creek
Secondary: Dakota-Wyoming Placer
Commodity
Primary: Tin
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Crook
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
Type: Unknown
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Milton I. Leydig (with partners Dr. W.J. Doyle, Superior, MT, and R.F. Wellcome, Port Angeles, WA)
Home Office: 1803 Jerome, Helena, MT
Info Year: 1952
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Placer
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Interior Plains
Physiographic Province: Great Plains Province
Physiographic Section: Black Hills
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cassiterite
Comments
Comment (Location): Milton I. Leydig, and 2 partners held 160 acres of placer ground along Sand Creek in T51N, R60W; T51N, R61W; and T52N, R61W.
Comment (General): (SEE BEAR GULCH PLACER)
References
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, WYO GEOL SURV BULL 50 [rev.], p. 193.
Pages: p. 193.
Reference (Deposit): DMEA Docket No. 2739, 27 p., http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/scans/wy/dmea/2739_DMEA.pdf.
URL: http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/scans/wy/dmea/2739_DMEA.pdf
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