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Converse County Mine

Past Producer in Converse 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. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10157575
MAS/MILS ID 0560090137
Record type Site
Current site name Converse County Mine
Alternate or previous names Converse Co. Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -105.70063, 43.44165 (WGS84)
Elevation 1533

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Converse(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Macken Draw(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newcastle(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Antelope(hydrologic unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Converse

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 040N 074W 14 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -105.70063, 43.44165
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pumpkin Buttes

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Caribou Mining Co.
    Year 1958

Comments on the production information

  • Produced less than 100 tons as of Jan. 1958.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OWNER OPERATOR CARIBOU MINING COMPANY

  • Deposit

    MRAK, VERNON A., 1958, URANIUM DEPOSITS IN THE TERTIARY SEDIMENTS OF THE POWDER RIVER BASIN, WYOMING: WYOMING GEOLOGICAL ASSOICATION 13TH ANNUAL FIELD CONFERENCE GUIDEBOOK, P. 233-240.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Inactive as of 1958

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 12-DEC-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

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