The Cooper Hill District is a gold mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.
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Cooper Hill District MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cooper Hill District
Secondary: Albion mine
Secondary: Copper Creek adit
Secondary: Croesus tunnel
Secondary: Little Ella-Senator Stewart mine
Secondary: Richmond mine
Secondary: Silver King prospect
Secondary: Silver Queen
Secondary: Rip Van Winkle mine
Secondary: Copper Queen mine
Secondary: Emma G. mine
Secondary: Clara B. (Morgan) prospect
Secondary: Fox Group
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Cooper Hill District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: District
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Structure: Allocthonous block
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Schist
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Precambrian
Age Old: Precambrian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Polybasite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Gold
Ore: Cerrusite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Limonite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Geology): Cooper Hill is an allocthonous block of layered Proterozic metamorphic rocks thrust over younger unmineralized Cretaceous sedimentary rocks. The mineralized veins are Proterozic in the Proterzoic rocks and do not extend into the underlying Cretaceous rocks. (Hausel, 1997, p. 106)
References
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, 229 p.
Pages: 106-112. figs. 46-49.
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. 43.
Reference (Deposit): Schoen, Robert, 1953, Geology of the Cooper Hill district, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wy MA thesis, 41 p.
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Report of Investigations No. 23, 71 p.
Pages: 39-43.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], 287 p.
Pages: 82, 124-125.
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, 1994, Geology and MIneralization of the Cooper Hill Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, southeastern Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 49, 22 p., pl. 1 (scale approx. 1:12,000).
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