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Pay Dirt Claim Group

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10135274
MAS/MILS ID 560130629
Record type Site
Current site name Pay Dirt Claim Group
Alternate or previous names Paydirt

Comments on the site identification

  • A.B. Wilson merged all the various Pay Dirt (Paydirt) records in this immediate vicinity. There were no data that needed to remain distinct.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.833, 42.389 (WGS84)
Elevation 2265
Relative position Coordinates are for center of N2 of shared section line 20/21.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jeffrey City(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 20, 21 N2 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.833, 42.389
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type E
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crooks Gap - Green Mountain

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner W.H. Gaddis, K.E. Baker, and L.E. Smith
    Home office 1500 Mile High Center, Denver, CO
    Year 1957
  • Type Operator
    Owner Rare Metals Corp. of America
    Home office 10th Floor, First Security Bldg, Salt Lake City, UT
    Year 1957
  • Type Unknown
    Owner GEDDIS MINING CO
    Home office GRAND JUNCTION COLORADO
  • Type Operator
    Owner WESTERN NUCLEAR (PIT 1)

Comments on the production information

  • Together, Snowball and Pay Dirt produced 267,446 short tons or 242,574 tonnes (metric tons) ore. (Gregory and others, 2010)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIM FIELD INV AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

  • Deposit

    RA IN THIN MINERALIZED ZONE AT DEPTH IN EOCENE WASATCH F

  • Deposit

    WYO GS FOR MAS

  • Deposit

    DMEA Docket No. 4510, 1957, 721 p., http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/scans/wy/dmea/4510_DMEA.pdf

  • Deposit

    Gregory and others, 2010, Uranium map of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey MS-94, scale 1:500,000.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines also MAS 0560130627 = 10206306, and 0560130628 = 10254481
Editor 2012-01-18 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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