Reserve Mine

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. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10157278
MAS/MILS ID 560130345
Record type Site
Current site name Reserve Mine
Included sites Crooks Gap - Green Mountain uranium area, Sheep Mountain Operations

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.8192, 42.3908 (WGS84)
Elevation 2155
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Bailey shows Reserve Mine as a shaft about 2000 ft. NE of Golden Goose Mine.

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 21 N2 of NE4 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.8192, 42.3908

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 Operator
    Owner Western Nuclear

Comments on the production information

  • As of May, 1969 the Reserve Mine was producing about 75 tons of ore per day (Bailey, 1969, p. 114).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WYO G.S. FOR MAS

  • Deposit

    OPERATOR WESTERN NUCLEAR

  • Deposit

    Bailey, R.V., 1969, Uranium deposits in the Great Divide Basin--crooks Gap Area, Fremont and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming, in R.B. Parker, ed., Contributions to Geology--Wyoming Uranium Issue, v. 8, no. 2, pt. 1, p. 105-120.

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, Urannium guidebook for Wyoming

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2010-12-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references