The Keystone Mining District is a gold mine located in Albany county, Wyoming.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Mine Description
This district lies along Douglas Creek in the vicinity of the village of Keystone. The district is accessible by Forest Service Roads 500 and 542 west of Albany. The Keystone village originally included several mine employee cabins and support buildings. Some of these early structures have been converted into summer cabins.
Several active gold mines and a few copper mines were centered in the district in the late 1870s (Hausel, 1989). The principal lode was the Keystone-Florence mineralized trend which extended from the village of Keystone to the Florence mine, nearly a mile to the southeast. The Keystone mine was sunk on the northwestern end of this trend and the Florence mine was developed on the southeastern end. Mineralization along the trend varied from trace to anomalous amounts of gold, with ore shoots located at either end of the lode.
Keystone Mining District MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Keystone Mining District
Secondary: Keystone Mine
Secondary: Florence Mine
Secondary: Albany, Cuprite, Douglas, Independence, Gold Crater, Keystone, Florence, and Lake Creek Mines
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Copper
Tertiary: Cobalt
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Albany
Land Status
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Holdings
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Workings
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Ownership
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Production
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Deposit
Record Type: District
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
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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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References
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.
Pages: p. 33.
Reference (Deposit): Currey, D.R., 1965, The Keystone gold-copper prospect area, Albany County, Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Preliminary Report No. 3, 12 p.
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. 120-122
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