The Purgatory Gulch mines is a gold mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.
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Purgatory Gulch mines MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Purgatory Gulch mines
Secondary: Golden Eagle Claim
Secondary: El Ray Mine
Secondary: Copper Gem Prospect
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Purgatory Gulch area
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Deposit
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Physiography
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Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Deposit): From Hausel, 1989, p. 157-158 ("the author" referring to Dan Hausel): "A group of short adits were driven into limonite-stained shears in gneiss [...]. On the west side of the gulch, two abandoned mines were examined in 1984. The southernmost adit was driven into granodiorite gneiss along a narrow shear. Four narrow copper- and limonite-stained veins were intersected in the mine workings. As short distance north, an adit extended less than 100 ft into the ocuntry rock. Across the gulch are more extensive workings, but when visited by the author in 1984, the adit was caved. In 1988, the author collected quartz vein samples from an adit on the hill in the NE4SE4 sec. 36, T14N, R84W, which contained visible gold. One sample of boxwork-filled quartz without visible gold assayed 19.0 ppm Au, 4.2 ppm Ag, and 0.013% Cu. Some remarkably rich gold specimens were found here[...]. In 1911 and 1912, some placer gold was also recovered from Purgatory Gulch [...]."
References
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, W.D., 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bulletin 68, 248 p.
Pages: p. 153, 157-158.
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, W.D., 1993, Guide to the geology, mining districts, and ghost towns of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Snowy Range Scenic Byway: Geological Survey of Wyoming Public Information Circular No. 32, 53 p.
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