Economic Geology of the South Pass Granite-Greenstone Belt, Southern Wind River Range, Western Wyoming
Subtitle: Gold at South Pass
By: W. Dan Hausel
Edition: 1st
Series: Report of Investigations 44
Publisher: The Geological Survey of Wyoming
Published: 1991
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
Description: A detailed description of the geology and gold deposits at South Pass Wyoming. Includes summaries on all of the historical mining districts within this region including South Pass, Atlantic City, Miners Delight, Lewiston and others. Nearly all of Wyoming's historic production was from South Pass. Report includes detailed geological map of the greenstone belt, mine maps hundreds of geochemical analyses.
Notes: More than 350,000 ounces of gold were produced in the past at South Pass. The area has potential for many additional gold discoveries. The greatest gold deposit was that of the Carissa mine that is still considered a possible significant gold deposit containing more than 1 million ounces of unmined gold.
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