Ferris-Haggarty Mine

The Ferris-Haggarty Mine is a copper mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming at an elevation of 9,888 feet.

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Site Name

Primary: Ferris-Haggarty Mine
Secondary: Rudefeha Mine
Secondary: Rudefeha shaft
Secondary: Rudefeha, Rudefeha W. Extension, Rudefeha E. Extension, Doyle (to the NW), Jordan (to the NE)
Secondary: Osceola (to the S), Olive D. Lode (to the SW), Half Moon Lode (to the SE)
Secondary: Ferris-Haggerty

Commodity

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Tertiary: Uranium

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Encampment 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: Unknown

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Penn-Wyoming Copper Company

Owner Name: Dos Lomas Mining Co.

Production

Year: 1997
Time Period: Total production estimated 21 million lbs. Cu.
Material type: Cu

Deposit

Record Type: Deposit
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Massive sulfide
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1897
Discovery Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y

Physiography

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

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Massive sulfide, Besshi

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Type: L
Structure: flexure fold

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Description: Proterozoic quartzite of the Deep Lake Group
Age Type: Host Rock

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: cu-quartzite: 3.23% Cu, 0.61 opt Ag
Analytical Data: High grade reportedly 30-40% Cu, "some" Ag, 0.1 to 0.4 opt Au.
Analytical Data: 2 Ore bucket samples: 3.95% Cu, tr. Ag, 0 Au. 4.6% Cu, 0.03 opt Ag, 0 Au
Analytical Data: 2 Dump samples: 3.95% Cu, tr. Ag, 4.6% Cu, 0/.06 opt Ag
Analytical Data: In 1988: 0.10 -21.3% Cu, 1.1 ppm to 2.34 opt Ag, 75 ppb to 0.33 opt Au. [note different units].

Materials

Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Cuprite
Ore: Covellite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Chalcopyrite

Comments

Comment (General): From http://www.blackrangeminerals.com/pdfs/2008AnnualReport14Oct08.pdf (Black Range Minerals, 2008 Annual report, p. 13 of 52): Ferris Haggerty Copper Project, Wyoming, USA The Company completed a three hole diamond core drilling programme at the Ferris Haggerty copper project during the second half of 2007. Mineralisation was encounted in all three drill holes with significant intersections including: 2.2m at 5.04% copper, 1.21g/t gold and 5.95g/t silver n 0.4m at 1.72% copper, 0.11g/t gold, >10,000g/t silver and 0.16% nickel The owner of the project was subsequently imprisoned on serious criminal charges. Ownership and control of the project became disputed. Despite considerable efforts the Company has been unable to determine rightful ownership. It has also become evident that the Company could not maintain a reasonable business association with any of the claimants. As such the Company advised that it would withdraw from the project.

Comment (Production): Estimated Production of 21 million pounds Cu. Some" Au and Ag.

Comment (Deposit): Shortly after sale to Penn-Wyoming Copper Company (probably soon after 1897), the mine was the world's 27th largest copper producer. (Hausel, 1997, p. 167)

Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves: 928,500 tons ore averaging 6.5% Cu and containing 116,800 oz gold.

Comment (Production): 200 to 500 tons per day of ore shipped by tramway, with a daily haulage capacity of 984 tons, to Boston-Wyoming Smelter. The Boston-Wyoming Smelter was located at Riverside, south of Encampment along the Encampment River. The Smelter had a capacity of only 500 tons per day. As of 1993, there are no remains of the smelter or concentrating mill. (PIC-32, p. 30)

Comment (General): 3 Comments salvaged from deleted entry 10132679: US AEC prelim Field Inv--Airborne RA anomalies Deposit-Precambrian metasediments and metamorphics Morse Bros. Machine Co.

Comment (Orebody): Rudefeha shaft, sunk in the gossan, hit solid bornite at 39 ft. depth. Orebody is 20 ft. thick.

Comment (Deposit): Assays of dump samples in 1984: 3.95% Cu, trace Ag 4.6% Cu and 0.06 opt Ag. Sample of cupriferous quartzite: 3.23% Cu and 0.61 opt Ag Samples from ore buckets: 3.95% Cu, tr. Ag, no Au 4.6% Cu, 0.03opt Ag, no Au. (see Hauesel, 1997, p. 169).

Comment (Geology): Mine is in a flexure fold along a massive quratzite-felsic schist contact where a 20-ft thick ore shoot was localized in a brecciated footwall quartzite.

Comment (Location): A.B. Wilson moved location from south of center of sec. 21 to the prospect shown on 1985 topo along north edge of sec. 21. Old location was NAD27:

References

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 154.

Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 46-47.

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, 229 p.
Pages: 167-170

Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 15.

Reference (Deposit): WYO GEOL SURV OPEN FILES

Reference (Deposit): Spencer, 1904, Copper deposits of the Encampment District, Wyoming: USGS PP-25, p. 74-82.

Reference (General): Black Range Minerals Ltd, 2008, Annual Report 2008: http://www.blackrangeminerals.com/pdfs/2008AnnualReport14Oct08.pdf
Pages: p. 13 of 52.
URL: http://www.blackrangeminerals.com/pdfs/2008AnnualReport14Oct08.pdf

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. 30.

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