Mine detail: Leighton-Gentry Mine

Previously called 'Jack Creek Mine, Leighton-Gentry (Jack Creek) Prospect, Leighton-Gentry Prospect'

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Location

Lat / long: 42.20995, -107.09122

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Cobalt, Nickel
Ore: Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Chalcopyrite

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

References

MRDSW900035
MAS560070357
DEP10205636
Reference{Deposit:: Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 36, 48-49, 139.}{Deposit:: Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 33, 45, 125.}{Deposit:: Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 173.}{Deposit:: Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 19-20.}
ReporterIntermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC), Wilson, Anna B.