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Union Pacific No. 2

Occurrence in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium
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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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068526
MRDS ID W001599
Record type Site
Current site name Union Pacific No. 2
Alternate or previous names Nonnes Ranch Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.85071, 41.59995 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Point of Rocks SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Desert Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bitter(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
19N 101W 19 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Zirconium Critical Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anatase Unknown
Ilmenite Unknown
Magnetite Unknown
Monazite Unknown
Rutile Unknown
Zircon Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.85071, 41.59995
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 50 DEG. E
    Dip 6 DEG. SE
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 762M
    Width 30.48M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: PLACER-FOSSIL-BEACH AND MARINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOW, V. T., AND BATTY, J. V., 1961, RECONNAISSANCE OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE DEPOSITS OF UTAH, WYOMING, NEW MEXICO, AND COLORADO: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPT. INV. 5860, 52 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THICKNESS IS AN AVERAGE. WIDTH VARIES FROM 50 TO 100 FT.
Deposit ASSAYS OF 3 SAMPLES AVERAGED 22.2% TIO2, 1.4% ZRO2, 18.4% FE, AND 0.06% EQUIVALENT THO2. THE POTENTIAL RESOURCES OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE IN 19 WYOMING DEPOSITS, INCLUDING THE UNION PACIFIC NO. 2, ARE 21,873,000 ST WITH WEIGHTED AVERAGE GRADE PERCENTS OF 5.22 TIO2, 0.55 ZRO2, 24.75 FE, AND 0.05 EQUIVALENT THO2.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey

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