Mine detail: Meta Mine

Previously called 'Meta Mine (Lead)'

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Location

Lat / long: 41.26496, -107.01426

Resource(B)

Primary: Lead
Secondary: Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper
Tertiary: Iron, Barium-Barite
Ore: Galena, Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite, Cerrusite, Anglesite, Pyrite, Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Hematite, Limonite, Hemimorphite, Smithsonite
Gangue: Barite
Discovery year: 1905

Production

Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: vein
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Vulcan Mountain Metavolcanics, Spring Lake Granodiorite
Host type:Metavolcanic Rock,Granodiorite

References

MRDSW900161
MAS560070363
DEP10157139
Reference{Deposit:: Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 10, 62, 83, 121, 125-126.}{Deposit:: Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 9, 57, 77, 109, 113.}{Deposit:: Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 174-175.}{Deposit:: Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 20.}{Deposit:: Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyomin* precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 156-157.}{Deposit:: Spencer, 1904, Copper deposits of the Encampment District, Wyoming: USGS PP-25, p. 98-99.}{Deposit:: Haff, 1944, Field report on the Meta lead-zinc prospect: WSGS Mineral Report MR44-9, 3 p.}{Geology:: Houston and Graff, 1995, Geologic Map of Precambrian rocks of the Sierra Madre, Carbon County wyoning, and Jackson and Routt Counties, Colorado: USGS Map I-2452.}
ReporterWilson, Anna B., Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC)