Moore's Gulch

The Moore's Gulch is a gold mine located in Albany county, Wyoming at an elevation of 9,360 feet.

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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

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Site Name

Primary: Moore's Gulch
Secondary: Albany Development Co.
Secondary: Albany Placers

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Platinum
Tertiary: Palladium

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Albany
District: Douglas Creek District

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

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Stream Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1868
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

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

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

Form: STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS

Structure

Type: R
Description: Mullen Creek-Nash Fork Shear Zone

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene

Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: ORE RAN ABOUT 0.05 OZ/YD

Materials

Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Commodity): GOLD IS COARSE AND JAGGED WITH FLOUR GOLD. UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF PGE - SAID TO BE PRESENT IN DISTRICT

Comment (Location): LOCATION GIVEN IS ABOUT 0.2 MI FROM MOUTH OF CREEK. AREA NOW LARGELY COVERED BY ROB ROY RESERVOIR. IN MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST

Comment (Workings): HYDRAULIC DITCHES, DRAGLINE DREDGE

Comment (Deposit): SEE ALSO: MRDS W032115.

References

Reference (Production): HAUSEL

Reference (Reserve-Resource): BEELER, HAUSEL

Reference (Deposit): HAUSEL, W.D., 1989, THE GEOLOGY OF WYOMING'S PRECIOUS METAL LODE AND PLACER DEPOSITS: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING BULLETIN 68, P. 105-106.

Reference (Deposit): OSTERWALD, R.W., OSTERWALD, D.B., LONG, J.S., JR., AND WILSON, W.H., 1966, MINERAL RESOURCES OF WYOMING (REVISED ED.): GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING BULLETIN 50, P. 79-80.

Reference (Deposit): BEELER, H.C., 1906, MINERALS OF ALBANY COUNTY, WYOMING: LARAMINE REPUBLICAN CO., PRINTERS, P. 29.

Reference (Deposit): MCCALLUM, M.E., AND ORBACK, C.J., 1968, THE NEW RAMBLER COPPER-GOLD-PLATINUM DISTRICT, ALBANY AND CARBON COUNTIES, WYOMING: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING PRELIMINARY REPORT 8, P. 10.

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