New Rambler Mine

The New Rambler Mine is a copper mine located in Albany county, Wyoming at an elevation of 9,701 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: New Rambler Mine
Secondary: Rambler Mine
Secondary: Electrolytic Mine
Secondary: Holmes Mine
Secondary: Great Rambler
Secondary: New Rambler District
Secondary: Blanche Mine or Blanche Shaft

Commodity

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Palladium
Secondary: Platinum
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Nickel

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Albany
District: New Rambler 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.

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Type: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Fowlie, William H.
Home Office: New York
Info Year: 1951

Production

Year: 1919
Time Period: 1900-1919
Material type: Total Production: 6080 Short tons ore containing: 1,753,924 pounds Cu, 171.35 oz Au, 7,346 oz Ag, 170.16 oz Pt, 451.409 oz Pd.

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Hydrothermal vein
Operation Type: Underground
Year First Production: 1900
Year Last Production: 1918
Discovery Year: 1877
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

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

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Form: PODLIKE SULFIDE MASSES, VEINS, LENSES, STREAKS, DISSEMINATED

Structure

Type: R
Description: Mullen Creek-Nash Fork Shear Zone

Type: L
Description: New Rambler Mine Located At A Complex Intersection Of Shear Zones

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Propylitic, Phyllic, Development Of Jasperoid, Silicification

Rocks

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

Name: Diorite
Role: Host
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Paleoproterozoic

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: PD:PT:OS+IR+RU+RH=1,800:100:1. AVERAGE CONCENTRATIONS FOR SEVERAL ROCK TYPES: 8-120 PPB PT, 2-113 PPB PD, 23-68 PPM CU, 53-468 PPM NI, 23-81 PPM CO, 150-1,250 PPM CR, 73-213 V (MCCALLUM AND OTHERS). AVERAGE OF MINE WASTE: 3,000 PPM CU, 7 PPM AG, 1.1 PPM PT+PD, 0.8 PPM AU (THEOBALD AND THOMPSON). COMPOSITE SAMPLES OF HESS, IN OZ/TON: 0.06 PT, 0.04 PD, 0.04 IR, 0.1 AG, TR AU. SEE REFERENCES FOR OTHER ANALYTICAL DATA

Materials

Ore: Azurite
Ore: Marcasite
Ore: Magnetite
Ore: Chalcanthite
Ore: Atacamite
Ore: Melaconite
Ore: Cuprite
Ore: Digenite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Realgar
Ore: Gold
Ore: Tetrahedrite
Ore: Pentlandite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Silver
Ore: Copper
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Covellite
Ore: Pyrrhotite
Ore: Tenorite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Sperrylite
Ore: Electrum
Ore: Orpiment
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Sericite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Hematite
Gangue: Barite

Comments

Comment (Production): From merged and deleted record 1081503 (0560010088 and M045455): THE DATE FOR YEAR OF DISCOVERY IS APPROXIMATE. THE PRODUCTION FIGURES GIVEN ARE FOR THE TOTAL TIME OF PRODUCTION, 1900-1919, EVEN THOUGH THAT PRODUCTION WAS INTERMITTENT. IN 1918, THE MINE WAS CLOSED BY FIRE, BUT SEVERAL CARS OF ORE WERE SHIPPED IN 1919. PLATINUM WAS NOT DISCOVERED IN THE ORE UNTIL 1901.

Comment (Ownership): From merged and deleted record 1081503 (0560010088 and M045455): PERCENT OF OWNERSHIP UNKNOWN, BUT PROBABLY 100. NOT KNOWN IF MR. FOWLIE IS STILL THE OWNER AT PRESENT TIME.

Comment (Geology): From merged and deleted record 1081503 (0560010088 and M045455): ONLY THE MORE IMPORTANT ORE MINERALS ARE LISTED. OTHER MINERALS PRESENT INCLUDE CHALCOTRYCHITE, ATACAMITE, CHALCANTHITE, PYRRHOTITE, LORANDITE, ORPIMENT, REALGAR, PYRITE, MARCASITE, MAGNETITE, PENTLANDITE, SPHALERITE, MACKINAWITE, ELECTRUM, GOETHITE, LIMONITE, JASPEROID, VILLAMANINITE, DIGENITE, VIOLARITE, MERENSKYITE, MICHENORITE, KOTULSKITE, RHODIAN SPERRYLITE, MOLYBDENITE, AND MALACONITE. TEN PT AND PD MINERALS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN THE ORE, EIGHT OF THEM BISMUTHO-TELLURIDES OR TELLURIDES.

Comment (Geology): From merged and deleted record 1081503 (0560010088 and M045455): THE DIORITE AND GABBRO LISTED IN THE LR DATA SET ARE ACTUALLY METADIORITE AND METAGABBRO.

Comment (Workings): Blanche shaft, 600-700 yards (meters) west of the New Rambler Mine was an exploration shaft developed to find the western extent of the New Rambler ore body. It was sunk to a depth of 160 ft. At 120 ft. it penetrated a zone of low-grade copper mineralization. (PIC-32, p. 39).

Comment (Deposit): From merged and deleted record 1081503 (0560010088 and M045455): THIS DATA SET IS INCLUDED ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DESCRIBING THE ORE GEOMETRY AS IT EXISTED AT THE TIME OF PRODUCTION. THIS DATA DOES NOT IMPLY THE EXISTENCE OF ANY RESERVES AT THE PRESENT TIME. TYPE OF ORE BODY- THE ORE WAS LOCATED IN THREE SMALL PODS THAT WERE STRUCTURALLY CONTROLLED EITHER BY FISSURES OR BY THE INTERSECTION OF A MYLONITE ZONE WITH TWO DISTINCT SHEAR ZONES, DEPENDING ON THE PUBLISHED SOURCE. EARLY BELIEF WAS THAT THE DEPOSIT WAS OF THE FISSURE VEIN TYPE, BUT LATER STUDY SUGGESTS THAT THE ORE WAS LOCATED IN MAFIC BLOCKS THAT WERE TECTONICALLY TRANSLATED PROJECTIONS OF THE MULLEN CREEK LAYERED MAFIC INTRUSIVE COMPLEX. THESE BLOCKS WERE LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF A NORTHEAST- TRENDING MYLONITE ZONE WITH AN EAST-WEST MILE-WIDE ZONE OF INTENSELY SHEARED ROCKS AND WITH A SET OF FOUR CLOSE- SPACED NORTHWEST-TRENDING FRACTURES. DEGREE OF WALL ROCK ALTERATION- VARIABLE FROM SLIGHT TO INTENSE. DIMENSIONS OF THE THREE ORE BODIES WERE SIMILAR. DIMENSIONS GIVEN ARE AVERAGES OF THE DIMENSIONS OF THE THREE INDIVIDUAL BODIES.

Comment (Development): PT DISCOVERED IN 1901

Comment (Location): NEAR THE HEAD OF DOUGLAS CREEK JUST EAST OF THE CARBON-ALBANY COUNTY LINE. IN MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST

Comment (Reserve-Resource): SYSTEMATIC GEOLOGICALLY GUIDED EXPLORATION IN THIS PROVINCE HAS REASONABLE PROBABILITY OF DISCOVERING AN ORE DEPOSIT

Comment (Production): 7,000 TONS ORE SHIPPED; 4,000 TONS WERE PRODUCED AT 25-30% CU. BY 1906 MORE THAN $120,000 WORTH OF COPPER AND PLATINUM ORE HAD BEEN MINED FROM NEW RAMBLER. HIGH-GRADE ORE AVERAGED 2.41 OZ/TON PD, 0.12 OZ/TON PT. IT IS THOUGHT THAT DEPOSIT IS MINED OUT

Comment (Commodity): CR, V, TI, CO, ZN, TE, AND BI HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED

Comment (Workings): NONE OF THE MINES IN THE NEW RAMBLER DISTRICT ACCESSIBLE TODAY. (All are on private property, but none are posted to keep out).

Comment (Deposit): RECORD W032390 HAS BEEN MERGED AND DELETED.

Comment (Geology): AREA IS COVERED BY GLACIAL DEBRIS. HOST ROCKS ARE THE PROBABLE SOURCE OF PLATINUM METALS. TEMPERATURES OF FORMATION WERE PROBABLY BETWEEN 300 AND 340 DEGREES C.

Comment (Deposit): INTERSECTION OF NW AND NE TRENDING MINERALIZED SHEAR ZONES. ORES WERE NEAR SURFACE, OXIDIZED, GOLD BEARING. AT 65 FT ENCOUNTERED SUPERGENE COPPER ORE WITH PLATINUM-GROUP METALS. HYPOGENE ORE WAS NEVER MINED. DIMENSIONS ARE OF LARGEST POD. DEPOSIT CONTAINED THREE SMALL ORE BODIES; UNPUBLISHED MODEL NAME: NEW RAMBLER CU-AU-PGE.

Comment (Orebody): Information from consolidated and then deleted record 10181503: Length 13 m; Width 9 m; Depth to top 25 M; Thickness 9 m. Type of Orebody #1: Other Shape of Orebody #1: Irregular Primary mode of origin: Hydrothermal Primary Ore control: Faulting Secondary Ore control: Fracturing Type of Wallrock Alter. #1: Propylitic Type of Wallrock Alter. #2: Silicification Type of Wallrock Alter. #3: Sericitic Minimum depth to Top: 15 (units not specified) Date of Last modification: 810129

Comment (Location): Site is now in the yard of a vacation cabin amid a well established and growing cabin/second home community. The workings have been long since abandoned.

References

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1987, WGS Bull. 68, p. 126-132.
Pages: p. 126-132.

Reference (Production): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1942, RAMBLER MINE, ALBANY COUNTY, WYOMING: WAR MINERALS REPT. 17, 7 P.

Reference (Deposit): Wilson, W.D., and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bulletin 50, 287 p.
Pages: p. 40.

Reference (Deposit): WYOMING STATE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION, 1907, MINERAL RESOURCES OF WYOMING, P. 26-27.

Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1942, RAMBLER MINE, ALBANY COUNTY, WYOMING: WAR MINERALS REPT. 17, 7 P.

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, W.D., 1993, Guide to the geology, mining districts, and ghost towns of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Snowy Range Scenic Byway: Geological Survey of Wyoming Public Information Circular No. 32, 53 p.
Pages: p. 38-39.

Reference (Deposit): WELLS, H.L., AND PENFIELD, S.L., 1902, ON A NEW OCCURRENCE OF SPERRYLITE (WYOMING): AM. JOUR. SCI., 4TH SER., VOL. 13, P. 95-96.

Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, NO DATE, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 21.2: UNPUB. PROPRIETARY FILE LOCATED AT U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INTERMOUNTAIN FIELD OPERATIONS CENTER, DENVER, COLO.

Reference (Deposit): ROGERS, A.F., 1912, LORANDITE FROM THE RAMBLER MINE: AM. JOUR. SCI., VOL. 33, P. 105-106.

Reference (Deposit): OSTERWALD, F.W., AND OSTERWALD, D.B., 1952, WYOMING MINERAL RESOURCES: WYOMING GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 45, 215 P.

Reference (Deposit): JOLLY, J.H., 1978, PLATINUM-GROUP METALS: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES MIN. COMMOD. PROFILE MCP-22, 23 P.

Reference (Deposit): KASTELER, J.I., AND FREY, E., 1949. DIAMOND DRILLING AT THE RAMBLER COPPER MINE, ALBANY COUNTY, WYOMING: U.S. BUR. MINES REPT. INV. 4544, 6 P.

Reference (Deposit): KEMP, J.F., 1904, PLATINUM IN THE RAMBLER MINE, WYOMING: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE U.S., (1902), P. 244-250.

Reference (Deposit): MCCALLUM, M.E., 1964, PETROLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF THE PRE-CAMBRIAN AND POST-MISSISSIPPIAN ROCKS OF THE EAST-CENTRAL PORTION OF THE MEDICINE BOW MOUNTAINS, ALBANY AND CARBON COUNTIES, WYOMING: UNPUB. PHD. THESIS, UNIV. OF WYOMING, 164 P.

Reference (Deposit): Hausel and Sutherland, 2000, WGS Bull. 71, 268 p.
Pages: p. 31.

Reference (Deposit): HESS, F.L., 1926, PLATINUM NEAR CENTENNIAL, WYOMING: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 780, P. 127-135.

Reference (Deposit): BLAIR, N.W., PAGE, N.J., AND JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, MAP AND LIST OF REPORTED OCCURRENCES OF PLATINUM-GROUP METALS IN THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES: U.S., GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP MF-861, 2 SHEETS.

Reference (Deposit): BEELER, H.C., 1906, MINERAL AND ALLIED RESOURCES OF ALBANY COUNTY, WYOMING, AND VICINITY: THE LARAMIE REPUBLICAN CO., PRINTERS, LARAMIE, WYO., 79 P.

Reference (Deposit): ANONYMOUS, 1911, CONCENTRATION OF PLATINIFEROUS COPPER ORE AT THE RAMBLER MINE, WYOMING: JOURN. METAL. AND CHEM. ENG., VOL. 9, NO. 2, P. 75-78.

Reference (Deposit): TAFT, H.H., 1918, A WYOMING PLATINUM MINE: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, V. 106, NO. 21, P. 900.

Reference (Deposit): MCCALLUM, M.E., AND ORBACH, C.J., 1968, THE NEW RAMBLER COPPER-GOLD-PLATINUM DISTRICT, ALBANY AND CARBON COUNTIES, WYOMING: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING PRELIMINARY REPORT 8, P. 9-10.

Reference (Deposit): DAY, D.T., AND RICHARDS, R.H., 1906 , USEFUL MINERALS IN THE BLACK SANDS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES, CALENDAR YEAR 1905, P. 1220-1221.

Reference (Deposit): MCCALLUM, M.E., LOUCKS, R.R., CARLSON, R.R., COOLEY, E.F., AND DOERGE, T.A., 1976, PLATINUM METALS ASSOCIATED WITH HYDROTHERMAL COPPER ORES OF THE NEW RAMBLER MINE, MEDICINE BOW MOUNTAINS, WYOMING: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 71, P. 1429-1450.

Reference (Deposit): EMMONS, S.F., 1903, PLATINUM IN COPPER ORES IN WYOMING, IN CONTRIBUTIONS OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY 1902: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 213, P. 94-97.

Reference (Deposit): LIND, S.C., DAVIS, C.W., AND VON BERNEWITZ, M.W., 1923, PLATINUM ASSAYS AND PLATINUM PROMOTIONS: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 2496, 21 P.

Reference (Deposit): THEOBALD, P.K., JR., AND THOMPSOM, C.E., 1968, PLATINUM AND ASSOCiATED ELEMENTS AT THE NEW RAMBLER MINE AND VICINITY, ALBANY AND CARBON COUNTIES, WYOMING: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 607, 14 P.

Reference (Production): Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 31.

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