Spring Lake Creek Prospect

The Spring Lake Creek Prospect is a copper mine located in Lincoln county, Wyoming at an elevation of 7,402 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Spring Lake Creek Prospect
Secondary: Lake Alice District

Commodity

Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Zinc
Tertiary: Silver

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Lincoln
District: Lake Alice 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.
Administrative Organization: Bridger

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Type: Underground

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

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

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Form: IRREGULAR

Structure

Type: R
Description: Northerly Trending Low Angle Absaroka Thrust Fault

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

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

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: TWO SAMPLES AVERAGED AS FOLLOWS: CU 3,550 PPM, AG 5 PPM, AND ZN 28 PPM.

Materials

Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Malachite

Comments

Comment (Location): PROSPECT IS ABOUT 500 FEET SOUTH OF SPRING LAKE CREEK AND 1500 FEET EAST OF HOBBLE CREEK

Comment (Workings): AN ADIT STILL OPEN IS 110 FEET LONG, 6 FEET HIGH, AND 5 FEET WIDE

Comment (Workings): "The site consists of a 92-ft-long silver-copper prospect adit and associated dump on a southern tributary of Spring Lake Creek. The adit is relatively stable, but presents the normal hazards associated with abandoned underground workings." (Martin, 1994, p. 30). Wilson and Heran (USGS) were unable to locate any workings in this area as of September, 2009, but did not have GPS coordinates or an accurate location description. It is possible that we were looking in the wrong places, or that the site has been reclaimed.

Comment (Deposit): COPPER MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN SLABBY, FINE-GRAINED, TAN NUGGET SANDSTONE 5 FEET BELOW THE BASE OF THE SPRING LIMESTONE AND DOLOMITE BRECCIA. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

References

Reference (Deposit): Martin, Clay M., 1994, Abandoned mine lands inventory of the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming: USBM unpublished report for US Forest Service (3-ring binder, 34 p. text, 28 2-page site reports, some with photos).

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, W.D., 1989, The geology of Wyoming's predious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bulletin 68, p. 136-137

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, W.D., 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated ore deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 70, p. 138, 140.

Reference (Deposit): LOVE, J.D., AND ANTWEILER, J.C., 1973, COPPER, SILVER, AND ZINC IN THE NUGGET SANDSTONE, WESTERN WYOMING: WYO. GEOL. ASSOC. GUIDEBOOK, 25TH ANNUAL FIELD CONFERENCE, GREATER GREEN RIVER BASIN, p. 140, 145.

Reference (Deposit): 1973 RECON LOVE, J.D., SAMPLINg.

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