The Stud Creek Mine is a gold mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.
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Stud Creek Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Stud Creek Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Deposit Type: Hydrothermal vein
Operation Type: Underground
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
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): The only information found about this "mine" is in Hausel and others, WGS OFR 94-2: "This area has a number of prospects, a mine, and the remains of some old abandoned cabins. In sec, 15, T18N, R79W, a mine tunnel was located on Stud Creek. The tunnel is about 400 ft long and driven in a NNW direction. At about 150 ft. from the portal, the tunnel cut a narrow 2- to 4-inch-wide, near horizontal, poorly mineralized vein in amphibolite. Other than this vein, there was little evidence of any other mineralization in the mine workings. It appears the tunnel was driven to test a limonite-stained chlorite schist and quartzite exposed on the hillside to the north above the tunnel, but stopped short of the target. Two samples collected from the mine duump at the tunnel on Stud Creek included SC1-92, a silicified quartz-chlorite schist with disseminated and fracture-filling pyrite, and SC2-92, an altered schist which produced a strong sulfur odor when struck by a hammer. A thired sample, SC3-93, was collected from a pit to the north. This sample consisted of quartzite with bands of limonite. All three samples were poorly mineralized and were not assayed." (Hausel and others, 1994, p. 9) Therefore, it is sheer speculation that the commodity of interest at this site was gold.
Comment (Commodity): No assays were performed by Hausel and others, nor was this property visited by Klein or Wilson or Heran. Therefore, it is sheer speculation that the commodity of interest at this site was gold.
Comment (Location): Wilson and Heran attempted to visit mines in this district in August, 2010, but were not successful in reaching this particular site. (We turned around in the SW4 of Section 16, about 1.2 mi short of this "mine")
Comment (Geology): limonite stained chlorite schist and quartzite; altered, silicified quartz-chlorite schist (summary from Klein's record W900306).
References
Reference (Deposit): Hausel and others, 1994, Study of metals and precious stones in southern Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-2, 61-p.
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