Mine detail: Lake Owen Complex

Previously called 'Lake Owens Mafic ComplexLake Owen layered mafic igneousLake Owen and Lake Creek titaniferous magnetite'

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Location: Albany County, Wyoming, United States, North America
Lat / long: 41.13386, -106.09395
dep_id: 10008229
mrds_id: D000224
mas_id: 560010037
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Iron
Minor mineral: Titanium, Metal
Trace mineral: Vanadium, Copper, Gold, PGE, Nickel, Cobalt, Silver
Operation type: Surface
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Magnetite, Ilmenite
model: 4: Merensky Reef PGE
Reporter: Fischer, Richard P., Wilson, Anna B.
References:
  • Deposit:: HARRER, C. M., 1966, Wyoming iron-ore deposits: USBM INF. CIRC. 8315, p. 15.
  • Deposit:: Wilson, W.H., 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: WGS Bull. 50, p. 108.
  • Deposit:: LOUCKS, R.R., 1991, PLATINUM-GOLD MINERALIZATION OF THE EARLY PROTEROZOIC LAKE OWEN LAYERED MAFIC INTRUSION, MEDICINE BOW MOUNTAINS, WYOMIN G [ABS.]: PACIFIC NORTHWEST METALS AND MINEARLS CONFERENCE. (ALSO INFORMATION PRESENTED IN TALK).
  • Deposit:: Stensrud, H.L., 1963, Geology of the Lake Owen mafic complex, Albnay County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming, M.A. thesis, 46 p.
  • Deposit:: Catanzaro, E.J., 1956, A preliminary study of the Lake Owens mafic complex, Albany County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming, M.A. thesis, 50 p.
  • Reserve-Resource:: HARRER, 1966
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