Badgers Teeth

Prospect in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Potassium, Potash
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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10133632
MAS/MILS ID 560370143
Record type Site
Current site name Badgers Teeth
Alternate or previous names Badger's Teeth

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.5847, 41.8106 (WGS84)
Elevation 2112

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chrisman Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Green-Slate(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 021N 107W 7 SE of NW Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Potassium, Potash Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Leucite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.5847, 41.8106

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • LEUCITE-BEARING VOLCANICS
  • The Badgers Teeth are five tooth-like volcanic necks which project through "Montana" sediments.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 152.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Potash.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-04-07 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey And again, 3-may-2013.

Beyond USGS

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

External references