Mcintosh Pit

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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107392
MRDS ID W032911
MAS/MILS ID 560130592
Record type Site
Current site name Mcintosh Pit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -107.82944, 42.36787 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Coordinates for approx. shared section corner of sec. 28 and 32.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crooks Peak(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 28, 32 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION QUESTIONABLE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) -107.82944, 42.36787

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • SECONDARY URAN MIN AT DEPTH IN WASATCH FM OF EOCENE AGE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Crooks Gap - Green Mountain

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Lost Creek Oil Uranium Co.
    Year 1978
  • Type Operator
    Owner Western Nuclear, Inc.
    Home office P.O. Box 630, Jeffery City, Wy 82310

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES OF WYOMING, 1980, P.52

  • Production

    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES OF WYOMING, 1980, P.52

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIM FIELD INV AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

  • Deposit

    REV BY MILS 9-79

  • Deposit

    Dahlkamp, F.J., Uranium deposits of the world—USA and Latin America, Wyoming Basins: SpringerLink, p. 149-207, available for download at http://www.springerlink.com/content/x74946/?MUD=MP. [Note that the bibliography, p. 381-414 is not available online, and since this is an online only publication, it is therefore not available at all].

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1984-05-01 Ford, Patti L. (Barari, Rachel A.) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2013-01-15 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record 10181817.
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560139592 = 10181817

Beyond USGS

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

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 07/19/1982
MSHA mine ID4801070
Mine name (MSHA)Mc Intosh Pit
Current operatorWestern Nuclear Inc
Current controller (parent)Phelps Dodge Corp
Mine typeSurface (Metal / non-metal)

MSHA cross-reference per the original MRDS record. Mine status and operator reflect MSHA's last published Mines export (February 2025); MSHA's public bulk feed has been unavailable since, so this may be out of date. See the Mine Data Retrieval System for current status.

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External references