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Vickers Mine (Kay)

Past Producer in Crook 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10091628
MRDS ID DC07978
MAS/MILS ID 0560450075
Record type Site
Mineralized Area Elkhorn Creek uranium mining district
Current site name Vickers Mine (Kay)
Alternate or previous names Vickers Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -104.74839, 44.81273 (WGS84)
Relative position NW 1/4, sec. 26, shown but not labeled on topo.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Strawberry Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Devils Tower(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Gillette(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Little Missouri(hydrologic unit)

Little Missouri(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri-Little Missouri(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 056N 066W 26 NW4 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Location from Bull. 50's location in NW4 correponds with workings on topo.
  • Mining district from MS-94.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -104.74839, 44.81273
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: UNIDENT. BLACK MINERALIZATION, 3-4 FT THICK.
  • Uraninite, 3" to 4" thick in upper Fall River Formation (Cretaceous). Past Production.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1957
Production years 1957- early 1960s.

Mining district

District name Elkhorn Creek uranium mining district

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50 [original], p. 194.

  • Location

    Gregory, R.W., Jones, R.W., and Cottingham, K.D., 2010, Uranium map of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Map Series MS-94, scale 1:500,000.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-15-1961

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, p. 212-213.

  • Deposit

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 18-NOV-83 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560450075 = newMRDS 10230320.
Editor 18-APR-11 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey MAS 0560450075 = newMRDS 10230320, merged and deleted.

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