Cresent Uranium Group

Occurrence in Carbon 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. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10181482
MAS/MILS ID 0560070148
Record type Site
Current site name Cresent Uranium Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.50626, 41.08326 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dixon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baggs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Snake(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 089W SE4 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • May be as much as 6 miles too far west. MINOBRAS, 1976, p. A-7 says SE4 of T13N, R89W. This is currently plotting in R90W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Browns Park Formation

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.50626, 41.08326

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIM.FIELD INV.,AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES 17-1, 17-2, 17-3, 17-4.

  • Deposit

    JOHN,V.L.,& RUSSELL RIGBYS

  • Deposit

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 02-DEC-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey 4 "anomalies" are probably the Crescent Uranium Group. Supposedly in SE4 of 13N-89W, but plots about 7 miles farther west in 90W.

Beyond USGS

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