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⇱ Granite from Florence Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA


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Florence Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA

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Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Florence Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1572391
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1572391:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Granite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Home Placers Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Independence Mine (Mammoth Mine), Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) Unnamed Zn-PGE prospect (MRDS - 10048495), Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
12.0km (7.4 miles) Unnamed Lead-Silver-Copper Prospect, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
17.9km (11.1 miles) Unidentified Prospect (MRDS - 10080889), Jelm Mountain Mining District, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
24.8km (15.4 miles) Annie mine, Jelm Mountain Mining District, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
25.6km (15.9 miles) King Claims (MRDS - 10018834), Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
29.5km (18.3 miles) Mark Claim - Annie Mine, Jelm Mountain Mining District, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
40.4km (25.1 miles) Unnamed Copper - Silver Prospects (MRDS - 10094653), Shipman Park Area, Larimer County, Colorado, USA
49.6km (30.8 miles) Sheep Creek Prospect, Boulder Ridge Area, Larimer County, Colorado, USA
References
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THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING Gary B. Glass, Executive Director and State Geologist ADVISORY BOARD...Governor Terry P. Roark,President, University of Wyoming Donald B. Basko, Oil and Gas Supervisor Appointed...Cheyenne, Wyoming. This and other publications available from: The Geological Survey of Wyoming P.O. Box...University Station LaIanlle, Wyoming 82071 (307) 766·2286 Front Cover - Wyoming gold. Gold buttons in the...recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
00:52 01 June 2016 Wyoming Mineral Locality Index Figure 1. Index map of Wyoming counties, with exposures...exposures of Precambrian and volcanic rocks. 1 he Wyoming mineral locality index is designed to provide mineral...interesting mineral occurrences in the state of Wyoming. Five publications were used extensively in compiling...view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...1 inch equals 4 miles) of the entire state of Wyoming in book form. The Wwming Atlas and Gazetteer can
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Report (issue)
the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals found there are...it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included,
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....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................. Wyoming..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
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G. Koch, Director BULLETIN 46 DIRECTORY 0 F MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1 964 Compiled by Robert D. Geach...ACTIVE COAL MINES, 1964 by Thomas Morgan State Coal Mine Inspector and a section on THE MINERAL INDUSTRY...Vermiculite Supplemental list of mining enterprises Part 3, Coal mines State coal mine inspector's annual report...report State coal mine inspector's report of coal mines active in 1964 Part 4, The mineral industry of Montana...Mineral fuels Index of mines, mine owners and operators List of mining districts 1 3 3 3 33 33 34 34
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volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
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DIRECTORY OF MONTANA MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1985 M B M compiled by D. C. Lawson with a section on the...the Emery mining district by Robert E. Derkey 11 ■1111111■1 Emery mill in Powell County. Bulletin...MONTANA MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1985 compiled by D. C. Lawson with a section on the Emery mining district...26 28 DRILL-CORE REPOSITORY MINE INSPECTION LAW 29 THE EMERY MINING DISTRICT 31 Figure 1—Index map showing...showing location of Emery mining district. 30 Figure 2—Generalized north-south stratigraphy, Deer Lodge
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YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...thickness; mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted...south prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles
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........................ 5 5 Distribution of mining districts.......................................... Wyoming......................................................... PART II. Catalogue of mining districts............................... Classification of mining districts........................................... Wyoming......................................................... Alphabetic index of mining districts...surveys... III. Map of Arizona, showing location of mining districts............... IV. Map of northern counties
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with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces The state...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded... the Rocky Mountains, and furthest to the northwest, the belt basin. The Rocky Mountains contain sedimentary
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deposits of the East Shasta copper-zinc district, Shasta County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional...1972, Geology and mineral deposits of Esmeralda County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin...p. Allsman, P.T., 1940, Reconnaissance of gold mining districts in the Black Hills, South Dakota: U.S...Nutt Wilderness Study Area (AZ-020-024), Mohave County, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment...Summary report (preliminary), Lights Creek Copper Project, Plumas County, California; Venture 63: San Francisco
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MONTANA MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1984 compiled by D. C. Lawson with a section on the Elk Creek-Coloma mining...mining district by Richard B. Berg mineral and ground-water research M B M G since 1919 1985 Contents...DRILL-CORE REPOSITORY MINE INSPECTION LAW THE ELK CREEK-COLOMA MINING DISTRICT Figure 1—Index maps showing...locations of Elk Creek and Coloma Figure 2—Generalized geologic map of the Elk Creek-Coloma district Figure 3—Veins...3—Veins at Coloma Figure 4—Sketch of Elk Creek barite vein exposed in cut References APPENDIX Table 1—Nonfuel
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GEOLOGY E. G. Koch, Director Bulletin 25 DIRECTORY MINING OF KNOWN ENTERPRISES, 1 9 6 1 Compiled by Frank...ACTIVE COAL MINES, 1961 By Thomas Morgan State Coal Mine Inspector And Section on THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF...Fergus 14 14 Flathead . . • . , . Gallatin 15 Granite 15 Jefferson 19 Judith Basin 23 Lewis & Clark 24...Ravalli Sanders Silver Bow Stillwater Sweet Grass Toole Yellowstone State coal mine inspectors report List...coal mines active in 1961 Supplemental list of mining enterprises 36 38 39 40 41 44 45 46 47 48 48
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' P~rk Range, which also enters the State from Wyoming, and running -nearly south terminates in about...Park consists mainly of second.a ry ranges of mountains and hills, alternating with broad valleys. The...and more or less isolated mountains, known collectively as the" Elk Mountains" or the" Gunnison Country...ansas River is a high range known as the ''Wet Mountains,'' standing as an outlier east of the Sangre de...feet. West of San Luis Valley rise the San Juan Mountains in which head Rio Grande, flowing into the Gulf
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Book (volume)
excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark gray to black nodules⎯flint. CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS
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excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark gray to black nodules⎯flint. CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS
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Bulletin 121 MONTANA DIRECTORY OF MONTANA MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1983 compiled by D. C. Lawson with...section on the Gold deposits of the Big Belt Mountains by Henry G. McClernan mineral and ground-water...1919 Prepared in cooperation with the Montana Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute. 1984...BIG BELT MOUNTAINS Figure 1—Location map Figure 2—Cross section of the Golden Messenger mine vein system...projects List 2—Supplemental list of mining enterprises List 3—Mining districts List 4—Strippable subbituminous
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............................................. Wyoming..................................................this report. 11 ALABAMA Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas Bearce, D. N., 1973, Geology of the...geochemical samples, Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey OpenFile...resources of Shinbone Creek and Adams Gap RARE II Further Planning Area, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Bureau...Geologic map of Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous
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........................ Western United States mining districts ....................... World distribution...14 14 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Wyoming .................................................(21) (22) *114 *115 Geology of the Globe copper district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome, 168 pp., 1903. The...The mineral resources of the Mount Wrangell district, Alaska, by W. C. Meudenhall and F. C. Schrader, 71...Encampment district, Wyoming, by A. C. Spencer, 107pp., 1904. Economic geology of the Bingham mining district
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Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade...Fourche and Cheyenne rivers. These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney...around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed Cretaceous Dakota sandstone...Peak is the crest of the geologically notable granite dome uplift which also produced a most remarkable...pegmatites are off shoots of the otherwise barren granite. From then have come some of the world’s most spectacular
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Report (Issue volume)
of nonfuel minerals and a chapter on trends in mining and quarrying in the metals and industrial mineral...State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...Geological and Natural History Survey. Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming. L. Michael Kaas, Chief, Division.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 Wyoming, by Rodney J. Minarik, W. Dan Hausel, and R. E...which 329), which placed the collection of min- Mine Safety and Health Administration), eral statistics
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records, and when available, includes the state, county, location of point of collection, and date and...pCi/L, picocuries per liter; fluor.. fluorometric; County Nearest community Location of point of collection...0.1 0.9 2.8 17.0 1.7 1.0 0.9 0.9 1.1 Table County 1.~ Sample-site data and radiochemlcal Location...Gila Globe Cochise Douglas Yuma Yuma Pima Tucson S. of Mexican Water Globe Douglas Yuma SW. of Tucson...Tucson City of Globe City of Douglas City of Yuma Graham Cochise Final Yuma Mohave Clifton Dragoon Casa
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stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to and in is, author of this...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” to the Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K 4... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 3 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
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vols. 9, 10. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Transactions, vols...of American Geographers: Annals, vols. 15, 16. Albany, N. Y. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bulletin,...11, 12. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 79, 94-97. San Francisco...39, 40. Ottawa, Ontario. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 27, 28; Bulletin...Bulletin, nos. 153-176. Montreal, Quebec. Canadian Mining Journal, vols. 46, 47. Toronto and Montreal, Canada
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TOWNS & MINING CAMP SITES . ol % \ AND WHERE THEY FOUND IT A GUIDE TO GHOST TOWNS & MINING CAMP...that reading about and visiting Ghost Towns and mining camp sites are becoming increasingly popular. Fact...the history of both the famous and little-known mining booms. This book is particularly valuable because...most important and interesting Ghost Towns and mining camps, giving specific directions to help you reach...including maps, historic and modern photographs of mining towns, sketches, and pictures of those who became
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