Commodities
PrimaryLead
SecondaryZinc, Silver, Gold, Copper
TertiaryBarium-Barite, Iron
Commodity typeB
Deposit
Deposit typevein
WorkingsUnderground
Materials
Ore mineralsGalena, Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite, Cerrusite, Anglesite, Pyrite, Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Hematite, Limonite, Hemimorphite, Smithsonite
GangueBarite
Geology
Host rockMetavolcanic Rock,Granodiorite · "Vulcan Mountain Metavolcanics", "Spring Lake Granodiorite"
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Discovery year1905
Identification
Deposit ID10157139
MRDS IDW900161
Alternate namesMeta Mine (Lead)
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates41.265, -107.01361
References
Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 10, 62, 83, 121, 125-126.Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 9, 57, 77, 109, 113.Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 174-175.Hausel, 1986, Mineral deposits of the Encampment mining district, Sierra Madre, Wyoming-Colorado: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-37, p. 20.Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 156-157.Spencer, 1904, Copper deposits of the Encampment District, Wyoming: USGS PP-25, p. 98-99.Haff, 1944, Field report on the Meta lead-zinc prospect: WSGS Mineral Report MR44-9, 3 p.Gentry, D.W., 1976, Lead and zinc deposits in Colorado and Wyoming, Final Report: Unpublished report by Donald Gentry, Prinicpal Investigator, Miing Engineering Dept, Colorado School of Mines under USBM Grant #G0264005.Houston and Graff, 1995, Geologic Map of Precambrian rocks of the Sierra Madre, Carbon County wyoning, and Jackson and Routt Counties, Colorado: USGS Map I-2452.Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, AML Inventory, [undated]: U.S. Bureau of Mines unpublished and undated inventory available at the USDA Forest Service office in Saratoga, WY.