1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Simmons No. 1

Past Producer in Campbell county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Uranium
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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 10132696
MAS/MILS ID 0560050266
Record type Site
Current site name Simmons No. 1
Included sites Simmons

Comments on the site identification

  • Mrak (1958) has entry for "Simmons" but no mention of No. 1 or No. 2.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -105.87564, 43.75635 (WGS84)
Elevation 1628

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Campbell(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

North Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reno Junction(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newcastle(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Belle Fourche(hydrologic unit)

Belle Fourche(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Campbell

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 44N 075W 28 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -105.87564, 43.75635
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pumpkin Butte

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Wyo Roc Uranium
    Year 1958

Comments on the production information

  • Simmons (presumably both No. 1 and 2, combined) produced 100 tons as of Jan. 1958.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIM.FIELD INV.,AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

  • Deposit

    Mrak, Vernon A., 1958, Uranium deposits in the Tertiary sediments of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Association 13th Field Trip Guidebook, p. 233-240.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Simmons inactive as of 1958.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 15-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.

Maps centered on this site