Charlie's Glory Hole

The Charlie's Glory Hole is a gold mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.

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Site Name

Primary: Charlie's Glory Hole

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Seminoe District

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
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

Form: pods

Structure

Type: L
Description: Small Fault Zone

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration: silicification

Rocks

Name: Schist
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Chlorite

Comments

Comment (Location): RI 23 LISTS R 85 W, BULL 50 LISTS R 8 W; originally LAT - LONG was FOR CENTER OF SEC. 29, T 26 N, R 85 W. ABW changed the location to the mine shown on Bishop's pl. 2 in 26N, 84W, sec. 29, NW of SE. The location in RI-23 is wrong.

Comment (Deposit): QUARTZ VEIN IN FAULT ZONE CARRYING FREE GOLD.

Comment (Deposit): Dug in the summer of 1962 by Charles Kortes. Free gold occurs in a quartz vein emplaced in a small fault zone in the chlorite-muscovite schist.

Comment (Deposit): Note that this deposit is not in the 1959 version of Bull. 50 because it was not prospected until 1962.

Comment (Location): LOCATION FROM FIELD OBSERVATION (T. KLEIN)

References

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 62.

Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 82.

Reference (Deposit): Bishop, 1964, Retrogressive metamorphism in the Seminoe Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming MS thesis, p. 40, pl. 2.

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 150.

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