Mine detail: Silver Creek

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Location: Park County, Wyoming, United States, North America
Lat / long: 44.0283, -109.6748
dep_id: 10400368
Major mineral: Molybdenum, Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Porphyry Cu
Development status: Prospect
ore: Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Bornite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
gangue: Quartz, Biotite, Feldspar, Calcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Muscovite
orebody_fm: HYDROTHERMAL STOCK, DISSEMINATED AND VEINS
References:
  • Deposit:: Fisher, F., Antweiler, J., and Welsch, E. 1977, Preliminary geological and geochemical results from the Silver Creek and Yellow Ridge mineralized areas in the Washakie Wilderness, Wyoming, USGS OF77-225
  • Deposit:: Hanbury, J., 1982 Hydrothermal alteration and mineralization of the Silver Creek porphyry copper deposit, Park County, Wyoming: M.S. thesis Washington State Univ. Pullman, 44 p.
  • Geology:: Hausel, 1997, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum, and Associated Metal Deposits Of Wyoming: WYoming State Geological Survey Bull 70, P. 23-34.
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