| Deposit ID | 10229817 |
|---|---|
| MAS/MILS ID | 0560050257 |
| Record type | Site |
| Mineralized Area | Turnercrest-Ross District |
| Current site name | Reno Lease |
| Alternate or previous names | Wirkkalla Claims |
| Point of reference | Ore Body |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -105.61953, 43.57215 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 1547 |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Campbell(county)
Wyoming(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Reno Flats(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Reno Junction(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
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Wyoming | Campbell |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th Principal | 042N | 073W | 34 | Wyoming |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Uranium | Primary |
| Ore Body (1) | -105.61953, 43.57215 |
|---|
| Development status | Prospect |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Turnercrest-Ross District |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0560050257 |
MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p.
Sharp, W.N., and Gibbons, A.B., 1964, Geology and uranium deposits of the soutehrn part of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1147, 60 p. and pl. 1, north half.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | "Uranium minerals as yellow coatings on sand grains and clay galls in a 2 ft thick, loosely consolidated, coarse-grained, clayey sandstone. Radioactivity of mineralized exposure is 0.04 mr per hr. Area has been drilled by operator." (Sharp and Gibbons, 1964, p. D26, #46) |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 18-NOV-83 | Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) | U.S. Bureau of Mines | |
| Editor | 30-MAR-10 | Wilson, Anna B. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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