Apex

Occurrence in Crook county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Uranium
Sections on this page
  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. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10018983
MRDS ID DC07873
MAS/MILS ID 0560110195
Record type Site
Current site name Apex

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Geographic coordinates: Elevation UTM Precision Relative position Point location
-104.08309, 44.34385 (WGS84) 10000 No way to determine which location is correct, if either.
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Approximate -104.10249, 44.43746 (WGS84) 10000 No way to determine which location is correct, if either. This location from deleted duplicate record MAS 0560110195 = newMRDS 10205873

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Old Baldy Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sundance(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Gillette(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Redwater(hydrologic unit)

Belle Fourche(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Black Hills National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 050N 060W 05 Wyoming
6th Principal 051N 060W 6 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Pahasapa and Englewood Limestones
Approximate (2) -104.10249, 44.43746

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • "Uranium minerals, vein-type deposit" [MINOBRAS, p. A-10]

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tinton

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FILES, USGS

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-15-1961

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR WYOming, 63 p. and appendix.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit .60% URANIUM OXIDE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 18-NOV-83 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560110195 = newMRDS 10205873
Editor 26-APR-11 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey MAS 0560110195 = newMRDS 10205873, merged and deleted.

Beyond USGS

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