Sunrise Mine

The Sunrise Mine is a iron mine located in Platte county, Wyoming at an elevation of 4,902 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Sunrise Mine
Secondary: Hartville Area
Secondary: Good Fortune Mine Adjacent Proper-
Secondary: Central Ore Body
Secondary: Platte County Iron
Secondary: Chicago Mine Or Chicago Pit

Commodity

Primary: Iron
Secondary: Zinc

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Platte
District: Hartville District

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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

Type: Patented

Workings

Type: Surface

Ownership

Owner Name: Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Info Year: 2010

Owner Name: CF and I Steel Corp.

Owner Name: CF and I Steel Corp. (Crane Corp., New York)
Home Office: Star Route, Hartville, WY 82215
Years: 1981 -

Owner Name: Farmer'S Union Insurance
Company ID: 4800144
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: San Diego, Ca
Info Year: 1993

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Caving Methods - Block Caving
Milling Method: Heavy Media
Year First Production: 1901
Year Last Production: 1963
Discovery Year: 1887
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: L

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Interior Plains
Physiographic Province: Great Plains Province
Physiographic Section: High Plains

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Name: (from deleted MRDS record W031618. Note similar dimensions but opposite dip. One must be a typo.
Form: LENTICULAR, TABULAR

Structure

Type: L
Structure: Strongly Folded, Fractures, Steeply Plunging Syncline.

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

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

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: 3 SAMPLES- SAMPLE NO. IN (). METALLIC FE (1) 67.55%, (2) 68.41%, (3) 55.92%, (AVERAGE OF 1937 PRODUCTION) 56.44%. AL2O3 (1) 1.42%, (2) 1.86%. SI02 (1) 1.50%, (2) 1.82%, (3) 10.76%. S (1) 0.054%, (2) 0.019%. P (1) 0.008%, (2) 0.035%, (3) 0.013%, (AVERAGE OF 1937 PRODUCTION) 0.068%. NA, MG (1) TRACE

Materials

Ore: Limonite
Ore: Goethite
Ore: Magnetite
Ore: Hematite
Gangue: Dolomite
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Gypsum
Gangue: Chalcedony

Comments

Comment (Ownership): DUE TO THE SHORTAGE OF QUALIFIED MINERS AND MILL PERSONNEL, THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT PLAN PROJECTS TWO, RATHER THAN THREE, SHIFTS PER DAY. CF&I CORPORATION, PREVIOUS OWNERS, FORFEITED THEIR BOND AND ABONDONED THE PROPERTY. AS OF 1993, FARMERS UNION INSURANCE, THE BOND HOLDER OF THE RECLAMATION BOND IS APPARENTLY THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY (GEO. SUR. OF WY, GEO-NOTES, NO 32, P.32)

Comment (Ownership): CF and I ownership info copied from deleted record 10080429 (old MRDS W031618). Information as of 1982 when original record was created.

Comment (Deposit): PATENTED. ORE BODIES A SHORT DISTANCE FROM DOLOMITE FOOTWALL.

Comment (Development): MILL.

References

Reference (Deposit): RMAG GUIDEBOOK,1963,P.264-266,DATA ON GEOLOGY AND ORE BODIES

Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 315-D,P.190-205,DATA ONGEOLOGY,HISTORY,EARLY PRODU

Reference (Deposit): USBM RI 4086,P.1-18 DATA ON GEOLOGY,GEOPHSICS

Reference (Deposit): USBM IC 8315, P. 39-42, 48, 49: DATA ON ORE BODIES, MILLING

Reference (Deposit): USBM IC 7759,P.1-30,DATA ON MINING METHODS

Reference (Deposit): GEOL. SURVEY WYOMING, WYOMING MINES AND MINERALS MAP, 1979.

Reference (Deposit): ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES FOR THE YEAR ENDING 12/31/80.

Reference (Deposit): GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WYOMING BULL. 50, 1966, PP. 105, 117, 239.

Reference (Deposit): http://www.wsgs.uwyo.edu/Topics/WYEconomics/Metals.aspx, accessed 6/9/2010.
URL: http://www.wsgs.uwyo.edu/Topics/WYEconomics/Metals.aspx

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