Kermac

Occurrence in Fremont 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10091577
MRDS ID DC07216
MAS/MILS ID 0560130542
Record type Site
Current site name Kermac
Alternate or previous names Kermac No. 1 claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.86709, 43.37883 (WGS84)
Relative position SE 1/4 NE 1/4 NW 1/4

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

De Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lysite(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Arminto(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Badwater(hydrologic unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic accounting unit)

Big Horn(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 039N 092W 03 SENENW Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.86709, 43.37883

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • WIND RIVER FM EOCENE AGE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discoverer Copper Mountain uranium mining district

Mining district

District name McComb area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner KERR MCGEE OIL INDUSTRIES
    Home office OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Love, J.D., 1954, Wyoming, in U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Geologic investigations of radioactive deposits, Semiannual Progress Report, December 1, 1953 to May 31, 1954: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission TEI-440, p. 175-180.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIM FIELD INV.AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit From TEI-440, p. 175 (quoted in its entirety because this is a difficult to find source):
Kermac No. 1 claim
This claim is in SE1/4NE1/4NW1/4, sec. 3, T39N, R92W. The uranium mineral is pale yellowish green, highly fluorescent, and was identified by L.B. Riley as metaautunite. The sample contained 0.59% eU and 0.80% U. The mineral is in the lower 10 to 20 feet of a 50-foot exposure of the upper Eocene (?) Tepee Trail (?) formation which was deposited in a valley cut in brown pre-Cambrian granite. No extensive exploration had been done at the time of the examination. The metaautunite occurs abundantly in pale green bentonitic plastic claystone and green bentonitic coarse-grained arkosic sandstone. Maximum radioactivity noted on the surface was 3 mr/hr.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560130542 = newMRDS 10181999
Editor 29-APR-11 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey MAS 0560130542 = newMRDS 10181999, merged and deleted.
Editor 27-DEC-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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