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Miller Hill area

Past Producer in Carbon 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. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10205631
MAS/MILS ID 560070654
Record type Deposit
Current site name Miller Hill area

Comments on the site identification

  • Someone entered separate records for each section in which there are sniffs of uranium. All these are part of the same deposit.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Claim
Geographic coordinates: -107.255, 41.4042 (WGS84)
Elevation 2396
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pine Grove Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baggs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper North Platte(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

LG(Federal land areas administered by LG)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 017 N 088 W 25, 35, 36 Wyoming
6th Principal 017W 087W 29, 30, 31 Wyoming
6th Principal 016N 087W 11 Wyoming
6th Principal 017N 086W 29 Wyoming
6th Principal 017N 087W 33 Wyoming
6th Principal 017N 089W 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Miller Hill area includes (MINOBRAS, p. 54) T16N, R87W, sec. 11 T17N, R86W, sec. 29 T17N, R87W, sec. 33 T17N, R88W, Secs. 25, 35, 36 T17N, R89W, NE4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uranophane Ore

Analytical data

Result 186 SAMPLES ASSAYED .001-.49% U
Result Circ. 278 says site VW-1253 contained up to 0.19% U.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 204
USGS model code 30c
Deposit model name Sandstone U

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock type qualifier brecciated limestone (MINOBRAS); sandstone, siltstone, and claystone (MS-94)
    Rock unit name North Park Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

Claim (1) -107.255, 41.4042
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type E
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner CITY OF RAWLINS,ISSUED FROM STATE(?)

Comments on the ownership information

  • One of the deleted records (MAS 0560070260, suggested that the operator was "CITY OF RAWLINS,ISSUED FROM STATE(?)" No further information provided and only citation was to an AEC airborne anomaly. CITY OF RAWLINS listed as a reference for 0560070290 = 10254888.

Comments on the production information

  • Produced an unknown amount of uranium ore (MS-94). An Unknown mine in this area produced 8 short tons of ore (MS-94).

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • "As much as 0.5% uranium is ocntained in grab samples, but only about 1,000 tons of rock is known to contain as much as 0.03% uranium." (Vine and Prichard, p. 201). "Several hundred tons of rock averaging about 0.02 to 0.03% uranium are believed present in the area" (Bull. 50, p. 210).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Gregory, R.W., Jones, R.W., and Cottingham, K.D., 2010, Uranium map of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Map Series 94, scale 1:500,000.

  • Deposit

    Vine, J.D., and Prichard, G.E., 1959, Geology and uranium occurrences in the Miller Hill area, Carbon County, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1074-F, p. 201-239.

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR WYOMING, 63 p. and appendix. (0560070653 = 10230508)

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIM. FIELD INV., AIRBORNE RAdioactive ANOMALIES (MAS 0560070263 = 10132618, 0560070260 = 10157143, 0560070289 = 10205054, 0560070290 = 10254888, 0560070255 = 10305642, 0560070293 = 10157582, 0560070264 = 10157802, 0560070280 = 10230009, 0560070251 = 10254253)

  • Deposit

    Love, J.D., 1953, Preliminary report on uranium deposits in the Miller Hill area, Carbon County, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 278, 10 p.

  • Deposit

    USAEC-TEI 315, PT. I. (Deleted record DC06939 = 10018827)

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 06-00-1959 (old MRDS DC06939 = newMRDS 10018827)

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 01-00-1962 (old MRDS DC06938 = newMRDS 10018826, DC06940 = 100188280)

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bull. 50 [rev.], p. 210.

  • Deposit

    FINNELL, T.L., AND PARRISH, I.S., 1956, SIMPLIFIED GEOLOGIC MAP SHOWING URANIUM DEPOSITS AND PREINCIPAL ORE-BEARING FORMATIONS OF THE NORTH CENTRAL CORDILLERAN FORELAND REGION: USGS TRACE ELEMENT MEMORANDUM REPORT TEM-953, 26 P., 4 pls.

  • Deposit

    WYO. GS FOR MAS (0560070281 = 10157465, 0560070262 = 10159508)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit URANOPHANE IN VUG FILLINGS OF FRACTURED BRECCIATED LIMESTONE, NORTH PARK FORMATION (MIOCENE). SED U.
General Circular 278 describes several "deposits". These are geochemical anomalies and are all part of the Miller Hill area. Any individual records for these sample sites have been removed. ( ie. VW-1253- MRDS DC06939 = 10018827).
General MINOBRAS, 1976, p. 54: "Uranophane was discovered during 1954 in the Miller Hill area located about 25 miles south of Rawlings in west-central Carbon County. Uranium is disseminated within limestone, and fracture coatings, vug fillings in a brecciated silicified limestone, North Park (?) Formation. These occurrences are of the secondary-type, and believed to have been leached from tuffaceeous sandstone. Small high-grade pods contain a maximum of 0.5% U3O8, but their size limits their value. There are reported outcrops in the range of 0.03 to 0.05% U3O8."

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-12-01 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines also 0560070652 = 10205384, 0560070653 = 10230508
Reporter 2011-04-27 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey By matching text comment from MINOBRAS , p. A-7, to misplaced comment (was in references) linked unknown site record to Miller Hill entry.
Reporter 1974-03-01 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey Old MRDS DC06940 = 10018828, DC06938 = 10018826
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560070263 = 10132618, MAS 0560070260 = 10157143, 0560070281 = 10157465, 0560070289 = 10205054, 0560070290 = 10254888, 0560070255 = 10305642, 0560070293 = 10157582, 0560070264 = 10157802, 0560070280 = 10230009, 0560070251 = 10254253

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