Rock Creek Placer

Rock Creek Placer is a surface gold mine in Fremont County, Wyoming, near Lander. MSHA lists its status as intermittent since Mar 5, 2026 and records 3 employees. It is one of 1 gold mine in Wyoming that is not marked abandoned, and the only one in Fremont County; by employees it ranks 1 of 1 in the state.

Facts

MSHA status
Intermittent since Mar 5, 2026
Type
Surface
County
Fremont County
State
Wyoming
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
Nearest town
Lander
Employees reported
3
Operator
World Earth Minerals, Inc.
Coordinates
42.4953, -108.7258
MSHA mine ID
4801888

Source: MSHA Mines data set, retrieved 2026-10-13. Status and counts can lag real operations.

Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date. Check ownership before you go near any mine site.

History and geology (USGS)

USGS site name
St Louis Mine
USGS status
Occurrence
Commodities
Gold, Manganese

Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10090679 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.