Commodities
PrimaryCopper, Gold
SecondarySilver
Commodity typeM
Materials
Ore mineralsChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Cuprite, Gold, Malachite
GangueQuartz, Limonite
Geology
Host rockAmphibolite · Sunday Morning Creek metavolcanics
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10157766
Alternate namesSunday Morning Mine
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates42.18917, -107.02306
References
Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 83-84. [incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]Hausel, 1980, Gold districts of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming RI-23, p. 62. [Incorrectly labels this the Mine when it is, in fact, the Prospect in Sec. 29]Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 153.Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 150. [Incorrectly mixes up the Mine and Prospect. Use the sections to get the right Sunday Morning.]Hausel, 1994, Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey RI-50, p. 25.Bishop, 1964, Retrogressive metamorphism in the Seminoe Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming: Univ. of Wyoming M.S. thesis, p. 40, pl. 1. [Misidentifies the Sunday Morning Prospect as the Sunday Morning Mine on p. 40. Appears to describe the Sunday Morning Prospect.]Klein, 1980, The geology and geochemistry of the sulfide depoists of the Seminoe district, Carbon County, Wyoming: Colo. School of Mines PhD dissertation, p. 58, pl. 1.