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Sunset Mines

Past Producer in Johnson county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10091556
MRDS ID DC06517
MAS/MILS ID 0560190111
Record type Site
Current site name Sunset Mines
Alternate or previous names Sunset Group, Sunset

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.04037, 43.93717 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Johnson(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

The Nipple(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kaycee(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Arminto(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Powder(hydrologic unit)

Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Powder-Tongue(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Johnson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 046N 076W 30 SE Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.04037, 43.93717
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pumpkin Buttes

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Sunset Mines
    Year 1958

Comments on the production information

  • Produced less than 100 tons as of Jan. 1958.

Comments on development

  • Inactive as of 1958.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USAEC-DEB-P-2-2680

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 01-30-1962

  • Deposit

    Mrak, Vernon A., 1958, Uranium deposits in the Tertiary sediments of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Association 13th Field Trip Guidebook, p. 233-240.

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium guidebook for Wyoming.

  • Deposit

    WYO GEOL SURV FOR MAS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UP TO .30% U OXIDE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 15-DEC-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record 10206420
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560190111 = 10206420.

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