Commodities
PrimaryCopper
SecondaryGold
Commodity typeM
Materials
Ore mineralsMalachite, Bornite, Chrysocolla, Chalcopyrite, Covellite
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10205696
Alternate namesJunk Creek Mines, Junk Creek Shaft, Junk Creek area
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates42.20523, -107.0276
References
Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 44.Hausel, 1989, The geology of Wyoming's precious metal lode and placer deposits: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 68, p. 149.Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 153.Klein, 1981, Colo. School of Mines, PhD thesis, p. 57-58, plate.Hausel, 1994, Economic geology of the Seminoe Mountains Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey RI-50, p. 25.