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Yenke

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 10069127
MRDS ID W002545
Record type Site
Current site name Yenke

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.92241, 41.16301 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Horse Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Firehole Canyon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Blacks Fork(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
015N 010W 12 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) -109.92241, 41.16301
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 1.68M
    Width 76.2M

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, P. 5

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COMPOSITE OF 4 SAMPLES AVERAGED 22.4 PERCENT TI O2, 2.1 PERCENT ZR O2, 16.3 PERCENT FE, AND 0.08 EQUIVALENT TH O2. THE POTENTIAL RESOURCES OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE IN 19 WYOMING DEPOSITS, INCLUDING THE YENKE, ARE 21,873,000 ST WITH WEIGHTED AVERAGE GRADE PERCENTS OF 5.22 TI O2, 0.55 ZR O2, 24.75 FE, AND 0.015 EQUIVALENT TH O2.

Reporter information

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

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