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Snowball Mine

Past Producer in Fremont 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10254729
MRDS ID W032750
MAS/MILS ID 560130686
Record type Site
Current site name Snowball Mine
Alternate or previous names Snoball Mine, Sno-ball Claims, Sno-ball mines
Included sites Crooks Gap - Green Mountain uranium area, Sheep Mountain Operations

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.838, 42.36487 (WGS84)
Elevation 2060
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Location on Bailey's pl. 2 (1969, p. 108) matches tailings shown on Crooks Peak 24k topo. Moved coordinates to plot in center of SE4, sec. 29.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crooks Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bairoil(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Divide Closed Basin(hydrologic unit)

Great Divide Closed Basin(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 028N 092W 29 SE4 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uranophane Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Wasatch Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.838, 42.36487
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type E
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crooks Gap

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the production information

  • As of May, 1969 the Snoball Mines (several small adits and inclined shafts) were producing about 150 tons of ore per day (Bailey, 1969, p. 114).
  • Together, Snowball and Pay Dirt produced 267,446 short tons or 242,574 tonnes (metric tons) ore. (Gregory and others, 2010)

Comments on the workings information

  • Snoball Mines made up of several small adits and inclined shafts (Bailey, 1969, p. 114).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WYO GS FOR MAS

  • Deposit

    WESTERN NUCLEAR

  • Deposit

    Bailey, R.V., 1969, Uranium deposits in the Great Divide Basin--crooks Gap Area, Fremont and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming, in R.B. Parker, ed., Contributions to Geology--Wyoming Uranium Issue, v. 8, no. 2, pt. 1, p. 105-120.

  • Deposit

    USAEC PROGRESS REPORT NO. 10 FOR PERIOD APRIL 1 TO OCTOBER 1, 1955, (RME-3125), P. 1

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.

  • Deposit

    Stephens, J.C., 1964, Geology and uranium deposits at Crook Gap, Fremont County, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1147-F, 82 p.

  • Deposit

    Gregory and others, 2010, Uranium map of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey MS-94, scale 1:500,000.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2010-08-30 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted W032750 = 10096614
Reporter 1984-01-01 Barari, Rachel A. South Dakota Geological Survey W032750 = 10096614

Beyond USGS

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

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