Utah Mine

Prospect 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. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10181533
MAS/MILS ID 560130976
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Mine
Included sites Crooks Gap - Green Mountain uranium area, Sheep Mountain Operations

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.7842, 42.3417 (WGS84)
Elevation 2329
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crooks Peak(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 027 N 092 W 2 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.7842, 42.3417

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Prospect
Commodity type E
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crooks Gap - Green Mountain uranium area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • As of 1976, this mine was proposed. This may be the large ground disurbance visible on Google Earth images in Sec. 2.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR WYOming, 63 p. and appendix.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General As of 1976, Utah International, Inc. announced plans for 9 pit mines to be excavated (sec. 2, T27N, R92W)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 South Dakota School of Mines 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