Commodities
PrimaryMolybdenum, Copper
Deposit
Deposit typePorphyry Cu
Orebody formHYDROTHERMAL STOCK, DISSEMINATED AND VEINS
Materials
Ore mineralsChalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Bornite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
GangueQuartz, Biotite, Feldspar, Calcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Muscovite
Economic & production
Development statusProspect
Identification
Deposit ID10400368
Alternate namesNed Claims
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates44.0283, -109.6748
References
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 OF77-225Hanbury, 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.Hausel, 1997, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum, and Associated Metal Deposits Of Wyoming: WYoming State Geological Survey Bull 70, P. 23-34.