Poison Creek

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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10018992
MRDS ID DC07945
MAS/MILS ID 0560110203
Record type Site
Mineralized Area Barlow Canyon Mining District
Current site name Poison Creek

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -104.847, 44.68051 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Located in somewhere in Section 12, T54N, R67W.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

New Haven(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Devils Tower(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Gillette(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Little Missouri(hydrologic unit)

Little Missouri(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri-Little Missouri(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 067W 12 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • LATITUDE-LONGITUDE VALUES CALCULATED FROM TOWNSHIP, RANGE, SECTION. Deposit is somewhere in Section 12.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Zeunerite Unknown
Sabugalite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -104.847, 44.68051

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • zeunerite and sabugalite in sandstone (MINOBRAS, p. A-10).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Barlow Canyon Mining District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    Gregory, R.W., Jones, R.W., and Cottingham, K.D., 2010, Uranium map of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Map Series MS-94, scale 1:500,000.

  • Deposit

    USAEC-AP 1, 1956, RME 3137, P. 7.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 18-NOV-83 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines mas 0560110203 = newMRDS 10254131
Editor 18-APR-01 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey mas 0560110203 = newMRDS 10254131, merged and deleted.

Beyond USGS

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