Anomaly No. B-16-2

Occurrence in Sweetwater 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10133105
MAS/MILS ID 560370052
Record type Site
Current site name Anomaly No. B-16-2
Alternate or previous names Unknown Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -109.5108, 41.1081 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Haystack Buttes South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Firehole Canyon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Green-Flaming Gorge Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Ashley National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 013N 107W 18 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 204
USGS model code 30c
Deposit model name Sandstone U

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock
    Rock unit name Green RIver Formation

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Green River Formation - Laney Member

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GREEN RIVER FM

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type E
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MEEHAN 1955 AIRBORNE RECONNAISSANCE PROJECT AEC RME 2024

  • Deposit

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2010-12-02 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey This is one of the unknown occurrences in MINOBRAS, p. A-23.

Beyond USGS

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