Granger No. 2 drill hole

Prospect in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Sodium
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10232588
MAS/MILS ID 0560370270
Record type Site
Current site name Granger No. 2 drill hole
Included sites Green River Trona District

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -109.91384, 41.51134 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Somewher in Sec. 26.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Granger(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Blacks Fork(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 018 N 111 W 26 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sodium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Trona Ore

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -109.91384, 41.51134

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • TRONA IN WILKINS PEAK MEMBER OF GREEN RIVER FORMATION. 1880 ft. to Trona bed #17.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Green River Trona District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Stauffer Chemical Co.
    Year 1966

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CULBERTSON, W.C., 1966, Trona in the Wilkins Peak member of the Green River Formation, soutwestern Wyoming: USGS PROF PAPER 550-B, p. B160, table 1, #2.

Comments on the references

  • REV. & UPDATE BY MILS 10-79

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General Source of information was Stauffer Chemical Co. That does not mean that Stauffer owns this.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 10-NOV-2009 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.