Mine detail: Silver Creek

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Location

Lat / long:

44.0283, -109.6748

Resource

Primary:	Molybdenum, Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Bornite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Quartz, Biotite, Feldspar, Calcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Muscovite
Orebody form:	HYDROTHERMAL STOCK, DISSEMINATED AND VEINS

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Porphyry Cu
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

References

DEP

10400368

Reference

{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.}