Richards Property

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10018991
MRDS ID DC07935
Record type Site
Current site name Richards Property
Alternate or previous names Richards, Richards and Myers Property, Anomaly 1

Comments on the site identification

  • ABW combined duplicate records based on similar names, lack of detailed location information, and minimal information in cited sources.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -104.20365, 44.65467 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Somewhere in Sec. 20.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Aladdin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Devils Tower(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Gillette(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Redwater(hydrologic unit)

Belle Fourche(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 054N 061W 20 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) -104.20365, 44.65467

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W.B.RICHARDS,A.W.RICHARDS,& I.E.MYERS
    Home office ALADDIN,WYO.
  • Type Owner
    Owner W.B. Richards and A.W. Richards
    Year 1955

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Nash, A.L., 1955, Airborne reconnaissance of eastern flank of the Black Hills, South Dakota, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Report RME-1061, 16 p. [note that this publication is in the USGS library restricted section]

  • Location

    AEC PRELIM.FIELD INV.,AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-15-1961

  • Deposit

    MINBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UP TO .12% U OXIDE
Deposit "Uranium minerals in sandstone (fall River Formation)." (MINOBRAS, p. A-10).
Deposit "High radioactivity is in a 3-inch thick ironstone layer of the Fall River sandstone. No visible uranium minerals were observed." Two assays of chip samples yielded 0.12% U3O8 and 0.06% V2O5 and 0.04% U3O8 and 0.09% V2O5. {RME-1061, p. 9]

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 20-APR-11 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey MAS 0560110170 = newMRDS 10206509, merged and deleted.
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560110170 = newMRDS 10206509

Beyond USGS

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

External references