| Deposit ID | 10081134 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | W032860 |
| MAS/MILS ID | 560070641 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Ketchum Butte |
| Alternate or previous names | Ketchum Buttes |
| Point of reference | Approximate |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -107.427, 41.286 (WGS84) |
| Location accuracy | 100(meters) |
| Relative position | Prospect labeled on topo at top of west-most Butte. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Carbon(county)
Wyoming(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Ketchum Buttes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Baggs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Little Snake(hydrologic unit)
White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)
White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)
Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Wyoming | Carbon |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th Principal | 015N | 089N | 8 | Wyoming |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Uranium | Primary |
| Model code | 204 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 30c |
| Deposit model name | Sandstone U |
| Host or associated | Host | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone | ||||
| Rock unit name | Browns Park | ||||
| Rock description | Browns Park | ||||
| |||||
| Approximate (1) | -107.427, 41.286 |
|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | E |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Year of first production | 1954 |
| Year of last production | 1955 |
| Year | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Material | 143 st X .9071847 = 130 mt |
| Ore mined | 130mt |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | W032860 | |
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 560070641 | =newMRDS 10181926, merged and deleted |
Gruner, J.W., and Smith, D.K., Jr., 1955, PROGRESS REPORT NO. 10 FOR PERIOD APRIL 1 TO OCTOBER 1, 1955: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission RME-3125, 19 P.
Gruner, J.W., Smith, D.K., Jr., and Knox, J.A., 1956, Annual REPORT FOR APRIL 1, 1955 TO March 31, 1956. Part II: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission RME-3137, Part II, 24 P.
MINOBRAS, 1976, URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR WYOMING, 63 p. and appendix.
Gregory, R.W., Jones, R.W., and Cottingham, K.D., 2010, Uranium map of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Map Series 94, 1:500,000.
Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bull. 50 [rev], p. 210.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Although Bull. 50 describes Ketchum Buttes as being in sec. 9, it mentions the western-most "Butte" which the topo shows in sec. 8. Bull 50 goes on to describe a prospect pit which is very likely the prospect shown on the topo on the west-most butte. "A small prospect pit shows uranium mineralization in 3-ft. thick limonite-stained claystone. A 3 ft. channel sample in the claystone assayed 0.32% U3O8." (Bull, 50, p. 210) |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 1984-04-01 | Barari, Rachel A. | South Dakota Geological Survey | |
| Editor | 2009-02-13 | Wilson, Anna B. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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