Cody — Park County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: park_wy.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Cody. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. Northwest of Cody 50 miles (35 miles southeast of Cooke City, Montana), in the Absorak Mountains, is the location of the Sunlight Basin district, which contained many old mines and prospects. Near Cody, in a series of quartz - pyrite vugs and crutifications in fracture zones you will find free milling gold. Near Lower Copper Lake, in complex silver-tungsten deposits there were minor occurrences of gold. In the argentiferous galena veins, especially on the Hoodoo claim you can find minor occurrences of gold. In chalcopyrite veins you can find small amounts of gold. In the pyrite-chalcopyrite-gold veins, especially the Big Goose Mine you can find native gold as grains and flakes. In complex silver veins, especially the Tip Top Claim you will find minor lode gold deposits.