Lake Owen Complex

The Lake Owen Complex is a iron mine located in Albany county, Wyoming.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Lake Owen Complex
Secondary: Lake Owens Mafic Complex
Secondary: Lake Owens
Secondary: Lake Owen layered mafic igneous
Secondary: Lake Owen and Lake Creek titaniferous magnetite

Commodity

Primary: Iron
Secondary: Titanium, Metal
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: PGE
Tertiary: Nickel
Tertiary: Cobalt
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Vanadium

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Albany
District: Lake Owen

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.
Administrative Organization: Medicine Bow National Forest

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Sprott Resource Corp
Info Year: 2001

Owner Name: Trend Mining Corp.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: 401 Front Avenue Suite 1 Littleton CO 83814 United StatesPhone(208) 664-8095
Info Year: 2002

Owner Name: Rocky Mountain Resources Corp.
Home Office: Brian McAlister President (604) 408-7553 Website: www.rkyresources.com
Info Year: 2007

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: District
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Surface
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Merensky Reef PGE

Orebody

Name: Lake Owen (anomaly in Sec. 31/36)

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: Bureau of Mines sample (Harrer, 1966, p. 15): 29.0% Fe, 4.92% TiO2, 0.05% Mn, 0.07% P, 0.05% S, 28.7% SiO2. Semiquantitative spectroscopy: >10% Fe and Si; 1 to 10% Al, Ca, Mg, and Ti; 0.01 to 0.`% Co, Cr, Mn, Ni, Pb, and V; and 0.001 to 0.01% Cu, Ga, Sc, and Zr. Character sample from body near Lake Creek (5 mi. N of Fox Park, CO) contained 55.6% Fe, 11.0% TiO2, 0.001% p, 0.01% S, and 2.0% SiO2.

Materials

Ore: Magnetite
Ore: Ilmenite

Comments

Comment (Geology): Dimensions of ore body from Harrer, 1966, p. 15: 1 mile by 1/2 mile. Former record 10278921 (MAS 0560010037) gave dimensions as 57 HA, 1584 M long X 396 m wide and thickness of 200 m.

Comment (General): Lake Owen anorthosite complex covers a large area--most of 2 Townships. This record includes the 3 areas within it that are described in Harrer, 1966 (p. 15) and even more generalized in Wilson's Bull. 50, p. 108.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): POTENTIAL for iron or titanium PROBABLY SMALL

Comment (Production): DEPOSIT HAS NEVER PRODUCED.

Comment (Ownership): Rocky Mountain Resources Corp. [www.rkyresources.com] appears (as of April 2011) to have been consumed by American Vanadium Corp. [www.americanvanadium.com].

Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: STRINGERS, PODS, AND DISSEMINATIONS OF ILMENITE AND MAGNETITE (FINELY INTERGROWN) IN ANORTHOSITE IN 23 SQUARE MILE AREA (HARRER, 1966). Not a single "site".

References

Reference (Deposit): HARRER, C. M., 1966, Wyoming iron-ore deposits: USBM INF. CIRC. 8315, p. 15.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): HARRER, 1966

Reference (Deposit): Wilson, W.H., 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: WGS Bull. 50, p. 108.

Reference (Deposit): LOUCKS, R.R., 1991, PLATINUM-GOLD MINERALIZATION OF THE EARLY PROTEROZOIC LAKE OWEN LAYERED MAFIC INTRUSION, MEDICINE BOW MOUNTAINS, WYOMIN G [ABS.]: PACIFIC NORTHWEST METALS AND MINEARLS CONFERENCE. (ALSO INFORMATION PRESENTED IN TALK).

Reference (Deposit): Stensrud, H.L., 1963, Geology of the Lake Owen mafic complex, Albnay County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming, M.A. thesis, 46 p.

Reference (Deposit): Catanzaro, E.J., 1956, A preliminary study of the Lake Owens mafic complex, Albany County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming, M.A. thesis, 50 p.

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