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Unnamed Uranium Occurrence

Occurrence in Logan county in Colorado, United States with commodity Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011647
MRDS ID D006704
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Uranium Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.28331, 40.74999 (WGS84)
Elevation 1250
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position ONE-HALF MILE SOUTH OF SOUTHEAST SHORE OF NORTH STERLING RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Logan(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Atwood NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sterling(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sterling(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle South Platte-Sterling(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Logan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 009N 053W 15 W2 OF SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ASSUMED CENTER POINT WITHIN W 2 OF SW 4 OF SECTION 15 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Pierre Shale;Laramie
    Rock description Pierre Shale;Laramie
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.28331, 40.74999
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT APPEARS TO BE IN THE PIERRE SHALE, BASED ON GEOLOGIC MAPS, BUT COULD POSSIBLY BE IN THE LARAMIE FORMATION OR IN THE TERTIARY OGALLALA OR WHITE RIVER FORMATIONS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1943

Mining district

District name North Sterling Reservoir Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-81 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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