The Newton Group is a copper mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming at an elevation of 8,550 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,550 Feet (2,606 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 41.1854, -106.89200
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Newton Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Newton Group
Secondary: 8 Claims: Indiana; White Quartz; El Dorado; Sawmill; Lillian Russel; Lillian Y; Harmonica; Copper Queen
Secondary: Copper Queen claims
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Encampment District
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
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Deposit Type: vein
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1906
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: W trending metasediments and shears within Cheyenne Belt
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Limonite
Ore: Cuprite
Ore: Hematite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Azurite
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Chalcocite
Comments
Comment (Geology): Cascade Quartzite; Magnolia Formation; Jack Creek Quartzite; mafic intrusives
Comment (Geology): mafic rock; metaconglomerate; quartzite schist
Comment (Geology): 147 ft shaft (on Copper Queen claim) with 20ft drift and 50ft crosscut.
Comment (Geology): vein near surface contained limonite, hematiete, cuprite, malachite, azurite, chrysocolla. At depth chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite.
Comment (Geology): vein in mafic rock between metaconglomerate to the S. and quartzite schist to the N.
Comment (Location): patented claims in sec. 19 part of group. LOCATION OF SHAFT IN THE NW CORNER OF claim group; some patented claims in Sec.18.
References
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 175.
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 21.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 45.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 48.
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