Broadway Mine

The Broadway Mine is a silver, lead, gold, and zinc mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming at an elevation of 9,301 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Broadway Mine
Secondary: Broadway claim

Commodity

Primary: Silver
Primary: Lead
Primary: Gold
Primary: Zinc
Secondary: Copper
Tertiary: PGE

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Encampment 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.

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Type: Underground

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Discovery Year: 1904
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

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

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Form: IRREGULAR BODY

Structure

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

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Metavolcanic Rock
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Paleoproterozoic

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: CHANNEL SAMPLE YIELDED 12.5% ZN, 19% PB, 0.02% CU, TR PGM

Materials

Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Covellite
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Chalcopyrite

Comments

Comment (Deposit): DESCRIPTION OF DEPOSIT IS SCANTY BUT DISTRICT DESCRIPTION INDICATES THAT DEPOSITS SOUTH OF MULLEN CREEK-NASH FORK SHEAR ZONE ARE MOSTLY MASSIVE SULFIDES. ORES IN THIS DEPOSIT ARE FOUND IN AN IRREGULAR BODY ALONG THE CONTACT OF GRANITE AND GNEISSES WITH AMPHIBOLITES AND MAY SUGGEST A REPLACEMENT ORIGIN RATHER THAN A MASSIVE SULFIDE ORIGIN; UNPUBLISHED MODEL NAME: UNDETERMINED MASSIVE SULFIDE.

Comment (Location): Bull. 50 says the Broadway mine is on Coon Creek., but it is on the East Fork of th Encampment River, about 2 mi. north of the confluence of Coon Ck. Unable to determine from the inset map fig. 70, p. 160 of Bull. 70 which shafts correspond to the shafts on the topo.

Comment (Location): IN MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST. SIERRA MADRE MOUNTAINS

Comment (Geology): LITTLE GEOLOGIC INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO DEPOSIT IS GIVEN. DESCRIPTION IS FROM DISTRICT DESCRIPTION

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS UNKNOWN

Comment (Production): NO PRODUCTION FIGURES AVAILABLE; SMALL PRODUCTION PRESUMED

Comment (Location): 13N is the correct township.

Comment (Exploration): Explored by Bunker Hill Mining Co 1966-1967 and Amselco in 1976.

References

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 159-162.

Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 112, 135.

Reference (Deposit): HAUSEL, W.D., 1989, THE GEOLOGY OF WYOMING'S PRECIOUS METAL LODE AND PLACER DEPOSITS: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING BULLETIN 68, P. 151-153.

Reference (Deposit): OSTERWALD, F.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. 125, 152.

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