Helen May Mine

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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081144
MRDS ID W032874
MAS/MILS ID 560130508
Record type Site
Current site name Helen May Mine
Alternate or previous names Helen May, Helen May Group, Wyoming Uranium Corporation Annex I
Included sites Sheep Mountain Operations, Crooks Gap - Green Mountain uranium area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.842, 42.391 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Helen May Gorup straddles Sec. 20 and 17, with most of the ground disturbance at extreme N edge of sec. 20 (DMEA-3462, p. 67 of 115)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jeffrey City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bairoil(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sweetwater(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(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 028N 092W 20 NW of NE Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION from Bull. 1147-F, pl. 1 and text p. F46.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.842, 42.391

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Crooks Gap - Green Mountain

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Wyoming Uranium Corporation
    Year 1957

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USAEC PROGRESS REPORT NO. 10 FOR PERIOD APRIL 1 TO OCTOBER 1, 1955, (RME-3125), P. 15

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.

  • Deposit

    Bailey, R.V., 1969, Uranium deposits in the Great Divide Basin--Crooks Gap Area, Freemont and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming, in Parker, R.B., ed., Contributions to Geology Wyoming uranium issue, v. 8, no. 2, pt. 1, p. 105-120.

  • Deposit

    Stephens, J.G., 1964, Geology and uranium deposits at Crooks Gap, Fremnot County, Wyoming: USGS Bull. 1147-F, p. 46-48.

  • Deposit

    DMEA Docket No. 3462, 115 p., http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/scans/wy/dmea/3462_DMEA.pdf

  • Deposit

    DMEA Docket No. 3817, 220 p., http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/scans/wy/dmea/3817_DMEA.pdf

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General Copied from references section of deleted record 10254579: WYO GS FOR MAS, AEC PRELIM FIELD INV, AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES WYOMING U CORP. H.I.,ARMSTRONG

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1984-05-01 Barari, Rachel A. South Dakota Geological Survey
Reporter 2010-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines 0560130508 = newMRDS 10254579
Editor 2010-12-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate records. Revised 13-jan-2012

Beyond USGS

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

External references