Sheep Mountain

The Sheep Mountain is a titanium-heavy minerals mine located in Albany county, Wyoming.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Sheep Mountain

Commodity

Primary: Titanium-Heavy Minerals
Tertiary: Iron
Tertiary: Thorium
Tertiary: Zirconium

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Albany

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

Type: Located Claim

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Fossil beach placer
Operation Type: Surface
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

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

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Unknown: Rutile
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Monazite
Unknown: Sphene
Unknown: Anatase
Unknown: Zircon
Unknown: Garnet
Unknown: Spinel
Unknown: Hematite
Unknown: Ilmenite

Comments

Comment (Deposit): COMPOSITE OF 5 SAMPLES FROM OPEN CUTS CONTAINED PERCENTAGES OF 21.0 TIO2, 2.3 ZRO2, 34.0 FE, AND 0.04 EQUIVALENT THO2. RELATIVE PERCENTAGES OF HEAVY MINERALS PRESENT ARE 84.2 OPAQUES, 10.3 ZIRCON, 3.0 GARNET, AND 1.0 EACH EPIDOTE, TOURMALINE, MONAZITE, STAUROLITE, AMPHIBOLE, SPHENE, BIOTITE, AND SPINEL. THE POTENTIAL RESOURCES OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE IN 19 WYOMING DEPOSITS, INCLUDING SHEEP MOUNTAIN, ARE 21,873,000 ST WITH WEIGHTED AVERAGE GRADE PERCENTS OF 5.22 TIO2, 0.55 ZRO2, 24.75 FE, AND 0.15 EQUIVALENT THO2 (2).

Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: PLACER-FOSSIL-BEACH AND MARINE

Comment (Geology): TITANIUM SANDSTONE FOUND IN MESAVERDE FM

References

Reference (Deposit): Wilson, W.H., 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: WGS Bull. 50, p. 194.

Reference (Deposit): DOW, V. T., AND BATTY, J. V., 1961, RECONNAISSANCE OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE DEPOSITS OF UTAH, WYOMING, NEW MEXICO, AND COLORADO: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPT. INV. 5860, 52 P.

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, W.D., 1993, Guide to eht 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. 9.

Reference (Deposit): HOUSTON, R. S., AND MURPHY, J. F., 1962, TITANIFEROUS BLACK SANDSTONE DEPOSITS OF WYOMING: WYOMING GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 49, p. 103-106.

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