Cedar Hills 1-12

Past Producer in Carbon 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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Production statistics
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10230279
MAS/MILS ID 0560070140
Record type Site
Current site name Cedar Hills 1-12
Alternate or previous names Cedar Hills Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.7736, 41.05208 (WGS84)
Elevation 1987
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Location vague. Somewhere in Sec. 32 or 31.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Poison Basin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baggs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Snake(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 13N 92W 31, 32 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Cedar Hills #10 supposedly in T13N, R92W, Sec. 31.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Liebigite Ore
Coffinite Ore
Rutherfordine Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Browns Park

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.7736, 41.05208

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Cedar Hills #6 contains Coffinite and Rutherfordine in Miocene Browns Park Fm.
  • Cedar Hills #10 contains Liebigite (RME-3148, p. 43).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner KING OIL, C. E. KING
  • Type Operator
    Owner TRACE ELEMENTS CORPORATION OR UNION CARBIDE
  • Type Operator
    Owner UNION CARBIDE
  • Type Operator
    Owner TRACE ELEMENTS CORPORATION

Production statistics

  • Year 2010
    Material 20,867 st X .9071847 = 18930 mt
    Ore mined 18930mt

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WYO. G.S. FOR MAS

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium guidebook for Wyoming.

  • Deposit

    USAEC ANNUAL REPORT (RME-3148), 1956-1957, P. 43.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    CONS. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10-00-1961

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines also 0560070151 = 10234870 (Cedar Hills #1), 0560070138 = 10207882 (Cedar HIlls 1 and 2), 0560070139 = 10303329 (Cedar Hills 6 and 11),
Editor 19-DEC-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted multiple duplicate records.
Reporter 01-MAR-84 Barari, Rachel A. South Dakota Geological Survey MRDS W032733 = 10081042, Cedar Hills #10; W032732 = 10096608, Cedar Hills #6;
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey MRDS DC06985 = 10018837 was a duplicate of W032732 = 10096608. Also MRDS DC06984 = 10018836.

Beyond USGS

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