Sunday Morning Mine

The Sunday Morning Mine is a gold mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming at an elevation of 8,360 feet.

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Site Name

Primary: Sunday Morning Mine

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Seminoe District

Land Status

Not available

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: 1882
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Wyoming Basin

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Identification): Sunday Morning Mine is at the mouth of Sunday Morning Creek. The site labeled "Sunday Morning Mine" on the topo is NOT the Sunday Morning Mine. It is the Sunday Morning Prospect. Do NOT confuse these two different sites with similar names. Note that Hausel's 1989 description in Bull. 68 has the names of the mines switched. Go by the Section/Township/Range.

Comment (Analytical Data): Hausel found no gold in a grab sample of quartz from the dump.

Comment (Ownership): Patented in 1919.

Comment (Identification): Bull. 68, p. 150, mixes up the Mine and Prospect but is clear about which each describes because it uses sections.

Comment (Deposit): Gold is reported in felsic metavolcanics and associated metasediments (Bull. 68, p. 150).

References

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1994, Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey RI-50, p. 25-26.

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 150. [Incorrectly mixes up the Mine and Prospect. Use the sections to get the right Sunday Morning.]

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 153.

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 62. [Incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]

Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 83-84. [Incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]

Reference (Deposit): Klein, 1980, The geology and geochemistry of the sulfide depoists of the Seminoe district, Carbon County, Wyoming: Colo. School of Mines PhD dissertation, p. 59, pl. 1.

Reference (Deposit): Bishop, 1964, Retrogressive metamorphism in the Seminoe Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming M.S. thesis, p. 40, pl. 1. [Misidentifies the Sunday Morning Prospect as the Sunday Morning Mine on p. 40. Appears to describe the Sunday Morning Prospect.]

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