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King Claims

Occurrence in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities REE, Uranium, Thorium
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10018834
MRDS ID DC06971
MAS/MILS ID 560070355
Record type Site
Current site name King Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.51917, 41.05306 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Within sec. 32. Location chosen for lat/long is near center of section. Error could be about 1/2 mile.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Trent Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saratoga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper North Platte(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 013N 081W 32 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • LATITUDE-LONGITUDE VALUES CALCULATED FROM TOWNSHIP, RANGE, SECTION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
REE Critical Primary
Uranium Primary
Thorium Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.51917, 41.05306
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • "Samarskite(?) has been reported from pre-Cambrian granite" [Bull. 50, 1966, p. 221]

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GEOL. SUR. OF WYO. BULL. 50, P. 202, MIN RES OF WYO., 1959

  • Deposit

    USAEC, 1957, RME 3148, P. 44

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10-00-1961

  • Deposit

    MIN RES WYO, 1966, GEOL SURV WYO BULL 50, P. 221.

  • Deposit

    USAEC ANNUAL REPORT (RME-3148), 1956-1957, P. 4.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit No mention of this site as a uranium deposit in Bull. 50.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1974-03-01 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines = newMRDS 10132766
Editor 2010-01-07 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey merged/consolidated 2 records.
Reporter 1984-03-01 Barari, Rachel A. South Dakota Geological Survey W032730 = newMRDS 10081040.

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

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