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Apex Mine

Past Producer in Niobrara 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10256397
MAS/MILS ID 0560270030
Record type Site
Current site name Apex Mine
Alternate or previous names Apex

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -104.53339, 43.00826 (WGS84)
Elevation 1356

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Niobrara(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rabbit Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lance Creek(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newcastle(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lance(hydrologic unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Niobrara

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 36N 065W 32 NE Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Pierre Shale
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner OTTO ROHLIFF, LANCE CREEK,WYO
    Home office LANCE CREEK, WYO
  • Type Operator
    Owner O Rohiff [sic]
    Year 1958

Comments on the production information

  • Produced less than 100 tons as of Jan. 1958.

Comments on development

  • Inactive as of 1958.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIM. FIELD INV., AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

  • Deposit

    MRAK, VERNON A., 1958, URANIUM DEPOSITS IN THE TERTIARY SEDIMENTS OF THE POWDER RIVER BASIN, WYOMING: WYOMING GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 13TH ANNUAL FIELD CONFERENCE GUIDEBOOK, P. 233-240.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 14-DEC-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

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