Unidentified Occurrence in Sheep Creek Canyon

The Unidentified Occurrence in Sheep Creek Canyon is a mine located in Lincoln county, Wyoming.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Unidentified Occurrence in Sheep Creek Canyon
Secondary: Unidentified Occurrence
Secondary: Unknown
Secondary: Sheep Creek Canyon

Commodity

Secondary: Iron

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Lincoln

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-Teton

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: residual lag deposit
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1914
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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: TABULAR

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Shale
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pennsylvanian

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: Chemical Analyses, percent (IC-8315, p. 45): hematite accretions, pebbles: 60.44% Fe, 0.03% P2O5, 0.04% S, 8.99% Si. conglomerate: 34.81% Fe, 0.06% P2O5, 0.08% S, 27.87% Si. shale: 11.33% Fe, 0.10% P2O5, 0.04% S, 60.48% Si.

Materials

Ore: Hematite
Ore: Limonite

Comments

Comment (Location): ABWilson moved the lat/long coordinates to be in the SW4 of Sec. 11 on the N side of Sheep Creek Cyn.

Comment (Reference): AB Wilson unable to verify reference #3.

Comment (Identification): Merged 3 duplicate records. Kept 10081139. Deleted 10157221 and 10132950.

Comment (Production): Deposit has never produced.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves calculated in record 10132950 (old MAS 0560230020) from ore analysis ((IC-8315) and outcrop pattern (USGS I-686).

Comment (Location): ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF SHEEP CREEK CANYON. 2.5 MILES E-SE OF THE CONFLUENCE OF SHEEP CREEK AND THE GREYS RIVER.

Comment (Orebody): record 10132950 (old MAS 0560230020) gave the following Orebody information (in addition to the orebody information in that table): Type of Orebody #1: Sedimentary Shape of Orebody #1: Tabular Shape of Oregbody #2: other Primary mode of origin: sedimentation Seocndary mode of origin: residual concent. Primary ore control: lithology secondary ore control: bedding Degree of Wallrock Alter. :" none Type of Wallrock Alter. #1: unknown Strike and Dip N00S: 20W min. depth to top: 0 Ave. Thick. unconsol. mat.: 0 Min Thick. Unconsol. mat. : 0 Date of Last Modification: 780213

Comment (Deposit): "Hematite and limonite as a four-foot-thick bed of conglomerate-pebbles and as an underlying six-foot-thick shale, crops out along the north side of Sheep Creek Canyon for about 1/2 mile easterly in the SW4 Sec. 11, T33N, R116W."

References

Reference (Deposit): Harris and others, 1985, Metallic and Industrial minerals map of WYOMING: Wyoming Geological Survey Map Series 14, scale 1:500,000.

Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 116.

Reference (Deposit): USGS MAP I-686.

Reference (Deposit): Schultz, 1914, Geology and Geography of a portion of Lincoln County, Wyoming: USGS BULL 543, pl. 1.

Reference (Deposit): Harrer, 1966, Wyoming Iron-Ore Deposits: USBM IC-8315, p. 45.

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