Mine detail: Sunday Morning Prospect

Previously called 'Sunday Morning Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 42.18912, -107.02372

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Gold
Secondary: Silver
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Cuprite, Gold, Malachite
Gangue: Quartz, Limonite

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Sunday Morning Creek metavolcanics
Host type:Amphibolite

References

MAS560070393
DEP10157766
Reference{Deposit:: Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 83-84. [incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]}{Deposit:: Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 62. [Incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]}{Deposit:: Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 153.}{Deposit:: Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyomin* precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 150. [Incorrectly mixes up the Mine and Prospect. Use the sections to get the right Sunday Morning.]}{Deposit:: Hausel, 1994, Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey RI-50, p. 25.}{Deposit:: Bishop, 1964, Retrogressive metamorphism in the Seminoe Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming M.S. thesis, p. 40, pl. 1. [Misidentifies the Sunday Morning Prospect as the Sunday Morning Mine on p. 40. Appears to describe the Sunday Morning Prospect.]}{Deposit:: Klein, 1980, The geology and geochemistry of the sulfide depoists of the Seminoe district, Carbon County, Wyoming: Colo. School of Mines PhD dissertation, p. 58, pl. 1.}
ReporterIntermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC), Wilson, Anna B.