The Lewis Lake quartz vein is a gold mine located in Albany county, Wyoming.
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Lewis Lake quartz vein MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lewis Lake quartz vein
Secondary: Unknown quartz vein on SW shore of Lewis Lake
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Uranium
Secondary: Thorium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Albany
District: LaPlata District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 0.1 % U (=1,000 ppm), 0.16% Th (=1,655 ppm), and 0.0004 opt gold (Houston and others, 1983; Hausel, 1993)
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Workings): Anna Wilson and Bill Heran (USGS) visited this site on 12-Aug-2010. Location is by GPS just to the right of the small trail that goes between Libby and Lewis Lakes. There are 2 small, partly caved, timbered pits, side by side less than 30 ft. apart. The waste pile has some small quartz chips, but there is nothing obvious to sample. In the white quartize there are some dark patches which could be very fine grained sulfides. There's also a little limonite boxwork and chlorite. The area has been sampled previously (and separately) by Dersch, Houston, and Hausel, as reported in the cited references.
Comment (Production): It is not known if these workings ever produced. The report by Houston and others suggests that there may be potential for U or Th.
Comment (Location): GPS location between 2 caved pits on SW corner of Lewis Lake taken on site visit by A.B. Wilson, 8/12/2010. Elevation is from 24K topo map.
References
Reference (Deposit): Hausel, W.D., 1993, Guide ot the geology, mining didstrits, and ghost towns of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Snowy Range Scenic Byway: Geological Survey of Wyomining Public Information Circular No. 32, p. 19.
Reference (Deposit): Houston and others, 1983, Mineral resource potential map of the Snowy Range Wilderness Study Area, Albany and Carbon Counties, Wyoming: USGS MF-1596-A, scale 1:50,000 with 12 p. pamphlet.
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