The Golden Key is a gold mine located in Albany county, Wyoming.
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Golden Key MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Golden Key
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Albany
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
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: Gold
Unknown: Pyrite
Unknown: Chalcopyrite
Unknown: Malachite
Unknown: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Workings): Site visited by Wilson and Heran (USGS), Aug. 3, 2010. There's a small trench 170 ft. to the ESE along the access trail (the road is no longer accessible to motorized vehicles). Another longer trench is exposed about 150 ft. to the ENE. The main working is capped with a concrete cover. A small pit is about 30 ft. to the NW. Rocks include a quatz vein with visitlbe copper stain in the adjacent unfilled small pit. (Later we discovered that the Keystone topo shows a large mine symbol west of the main mine. We did not see a mine of that scale near here, but it would have been possible to miss it in the deep woods with heavy whortleberry ground cover.) This would be considered an abandoned mine.
Comment (General): Unable to locate the nearby "Pete Mine".
References
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1989, WGS Bull. 68, p. 120-123.
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