Commodities
PrimaryIron
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeS
Orebody formPOD-SHAPED MASSES AND LENSES
Materials
Ore mineralsHematite, Azurite
GangueQuartz, Calcite
Other materialsBrochantite
Geology
Host rockLimestone,Sandstone · Madison Limestone
StructureE-Ne Striking Cross Faults
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10100256
MRDS IDW032460
Alternate namesUnnamed Mine, Paint Mine, Rawlins Hematite, Rawlins Iron Deposits, Rawlins Paint Ore
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates41.89972, -107.235
References
Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 110-111Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 101.Harrer, 1966, Wyoming Iron-ore deposits: USBM IC-8315, p. 19-20.Barlow, J.A., 1953, Geology of the Rawlins Uplift, Carbon Co., Wy: Univ. of Wyoming PhD dissertation.Lovering, 1929, The Rawlins, Shirley, and Seminoe iron-ore deposits, Carbon Co., Wy: USGS Bull. 811-D, p. 209-216.Boyle, A.C., (1923), Report on the Rawlins, Wyoming iron ore deposits: unpublished typewritten report in Geol. Surv. Wyo. files, 14 p. (referenced in Bull. 50 and Bull. 811-D).