Freezeout-Seminoe Area

Occurrence in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Gypsum-Anhydrite
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10230249
MAS/MILS ID 560070334
Record type Site
Current site name Freezeout-Seminoe Area
Alternate or previous names Freeze-Out Seninoe Area

Comments on the site identification

  • ONE OF MANY LOCATIONS UNDER SAME NAME (from 0560070665 = 10181810).

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.2586, 42.05787 (WGS84)
Elevation 2286
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Coordinates are for near center of adjacent sections 11 and 14.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Windy Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Shirley Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Medicine Bow(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(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 Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 024N 079W 11, 14 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • ALSO IN SEC 14, T24N, R79W. [DEPOSIT MAY EXTEND INTO TWN 80, 81, 82 AND RNG 25--unsure who inserted this comment. This is probably a duplicate of the information in the Goose Egg record # 10205844]

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gypsum-Anhydrite Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.2586, 42.05787

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MIN RES WYO 1966 GEOL SURV WYO BULL 50 P 99

  • Deposit

    FERREN, JE, 1935 UNPBL MA THESIS UNIV OF WYO P 10

  • Deposit

    WYO GEOL SURV OPEN FILES

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "The Chugwater [Fm] contains a 25 ft bed of orange shale and white gypsum with red and pink streaks. This bed is overlain by 25 ft of interstratified shale and gypsum. The gypsiferous sequence near the bottom of the formation is of good quality. The lower 65 ft. of the Embar formation contains good quality gypsum." (Bull. 50, p. 99)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-12-01 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2012-10-25 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-12-01 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines ONE OF MANY LOCATIONS UNDER SAME NAME. 0560070665 = 10181810, 0560070664 = 10230481

Beyond USGS

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

External references