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Porcupine Group

Prospect in Big Horn county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Beryllium, REE
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Ownership information
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400641
Record type Site
Current site name Porcupine Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.891, 44.845 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Big Horn(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Medicine Wheel(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Burgess Junction(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sheridan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Horn Lake(hydrologic unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic accounting unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bighorn National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Big Horn

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 056N 092W 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Claims are Placer claims, 4 claims in each Group, each claim covering one quarter section, each group covering one section. The 9 sections, 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 34, 14, and 15 cover the entire NE quarter of T56N, R92W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Primary
REE Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Monazite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.891, 44.845
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Big Horn Locating Co. (Kenneth P. Harrington and Jerome Hirschfeld)
    Home office 865 South Lake St., Gary, Indiana
    Year 1957

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 2012-01-23 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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