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Granite and granite pegmatite (2545 ± 30 Ma) intrude metasedimentary rock of the Miners Delight Formation in the western part of the greenstone belt. The South Pass pluton is a pegmatitic granite west of South Pass City, and the Sweetwater granite is a fine-to medium-grained leucocratic granite that occurs to the west of the South Pass pluton along the Sweetwater River and Lander Creek.
1859 map of route from Sioux City, Iowa, through Nebraska, to gold fields of Wyoming, partially following old Mormon trails. Independence Rock , a famous Wyoming landmark along the Oregon Trail The route later known as the Oregon Trail was already in regular use by traders and explorers in the early 1830s.
Today, through historic preservation by the Bureau of Land Management and various university programs and courses, the ghost town at Miner's Delight stands as a testament to the passage of time, and provides historians with a peek at early Wyoming life and the gold mining culture. On the townsite are seventeen structures, including: seven ...
South Pass City is an unincorporated community in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States.It is located 2 miles (3 km) south of the intersection of highways 28 and 131.A former station on the Oregon Trail, it became a ghost town after later gold mines were closed.
Gold miners excavate a gold-bearing bluff with jets of water at a placer mine in Dutch Flat, California sometime between 1857 and 1870. Major gold mining in California began during the California Gold Rush. Gold was found by James Marshall at Sutters Mill, property of John Sutter, in present-day Coloma. In 1849, people started hearing about the ...
Wyoming terrain map The federal government owns nearly half of Wyoming's land (about 30,099,430 acres (121,808.1 km 2 )); the state owns another 3,864,800 acres (15,640 km 2 ). [ 12 ] Most of it is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service in numerous national forests and a national grassland , not to mention vast ...
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Atlantic City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 37 at the 2010 census. The community is a small mining settlement in a gulch near South Pass in southwestern Wyoming. It was founded in 1868 as a mining camp following the 1867 gold rush in the region.