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Kelly Slide Area

Occurrence in Teton 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. Host and associated rocks
  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 10182120
MAS/MILS ID 0560390032
Record type Site
Current site name Kelly Slide Area

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Claim
Geographic coordinates: -110.64389, 43.61662 (WGS84)
Elevation 2120
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Teton(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gros Ventre Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Jackson Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Driggs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Gros Ventre(hydrologic unit)

Snake Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Teton

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 042 N 115 W 03 N2 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • MINOBRAS gives location as N2 of T42N, R115W. No idea where the sec. 3 came from. It is highly unlikely to be in sec. 3 as there is nothing there on that very flat plain that could remotely be interpretted as a "slide". [ABW, 04/01/2011]

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock
    Rock unit name Morrison Formation

Nearby scientific data

Claim (1) -110.64389, 43.61662
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR WYOMING, 63 p. and APPENDIX.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "Radiactive dinosaur bone, 0.13% U3O8 found in Morrison Formation". (MINOBRAS, p. A-23)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-NOV-83 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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