The Unknown Iron Mine is a iron mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming at an elevation of 8,481 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,481 Feet (2,585 Meters)
Commodity: Iron
Lat, Long: 42.22139, -106.57972
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Unknown Iron Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unknown Iron Mine
Secondary: Iron Mine
Secondary: Shirley District
Commodity
Primary: Iron
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Shirley District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Deposit Type: pegmatite
Operation Type: Underground
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
Name: Syenite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Syenite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: Impregnated SYENITE CONTAINS NEARLY 20% Fe.
Materials
Ore: Hematite
Comments
Comment (Location): IN THE EAST END OF THE SHIRLEY MOUNTAINS
Comment (Deposit): HEMATITE IS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT PEGMATITE DIKES IN GRANITE. LOCALLY THERE IS A CENTRAL SEAM 1-2 FT WIDE OF PURE HARD BLUE HEMATITE. WHERE THE PEGMATITE CUTS THROUGH SYENITE THE ROCK IS IMPREGNATED FOR 100 FT FROM THE DIKE.
Comment (Identification): From comments and reference, this record clearly is derived from the entry in Bull. 50, p. 114, labeled "Shirley District". It should probably be more accuately described as "Unknown Iron Mine in the Shirley District". The shaft on the topo in the center of this section (18) is labeled "Iron Mine". This is a site, not District, record.
Comment (Orebody): Dike is about 1/2 mi. long. Central seam of hard blue hematite is 1 to 2 ft. thick.
References
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 114.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 103.
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