Discovery Pit #1

Past Producer in Fremont 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. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081058
MRDS ID W032756
MAS/MILS ID 0560130460
Record type Site
Current site name Discovery Pit #1
Alternate or previous names Discovery #1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.90348, 43.40994 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Guffy Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lysite(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Arminto(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Badwater(hydrologic unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic accounting unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(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 Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 040N 092W 29 SE4 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • OWL CREEK MOUNTAINS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.90348, 43.40994

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner WASHAKIE URANIUM CO.
    Home office WORLAND WYO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Greuner and Knox, 1957, USAEC ANNUAL REPORT (RME-3148), 1956-1957, P. 45.

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIM FIELD INV AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

  • Deposit

    AEC RESERVE ESTIMATE 1973

  • Deposit

    USAEC-RRD-1400

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 11-00-1958

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey MRDS DC07232 = newMRDS 10091581
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560130460 = newMRDS 10183934
Reporter 01-MAR-84 Barari, Rachel A. South Dakota Geological Survey
Editor 26-JUL-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted 2 duplicate records 10091581 (DC07232) and 1013934 (MAS 0560130460)

Beyond USGS

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

External references