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Big Tar Group

Occurrence in Campbell 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 10182988
MAS/MILS ID 0560050177
Record type Site
Current site name Big Tar Group
Alternate or previous names Big Tar Claim AEC Anomaly #332

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -105.73894, 43.99135 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Campbell(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Persson Draw(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reno Junction(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newcastle(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Powder(hydrologic unit)

Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Powder-Tongue(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Campbell

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 046N 074W 8 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -105.73894, 43.99135
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pumpkin Buttes

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Dakota-Wyoming, Inc.
    Year 1958

Comments on the ownership information

  • Moved "FRANK & LARRY BUTLER" from references to ownership, but no year or other details were given.

Comments on the production information

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

Comments on development

  • Inactive as of 1958.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIM FIELD INV AIRBORNE ANOMALIES

  • 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.

  • Deposit

    AEC RESERVE ESTIMATE,1973

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

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