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Cannon Ball No. 1

Past Producer in Converse county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Uranium
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  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10183236
MAS/MILS ID 0560090135
Record type Site
Current site name Cannon Ball No. 1
Alternate or previous names Cannonball #1

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -105.44232, 43.11666 (WGS84)
Elevation 1594

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Converse(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bobby Draw(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newcastle(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lightning(hydrologic unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Converse

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 35N 72W 1 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -105.44232, 43.11666
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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 Southern Powder River

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Old Faithful Mining Co.
    Year 1958

Comments on the production information

  • Produced less than 100 tons as of Jan. 1958.

Comments on development

  • Inactive as of 1958.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WYO G S FOR MAS

  • Deposit

    USAEC PRELIM FIELD INV. AIRBORNE RADIOACTIVE ANOMALIES

  • Deposit

    MRAK, VERNON A., 1958, URANIUM DEPOSITS IN THE TERTIARY SEDIMENTS OF THE POWDER RIVER BASIN, WYOMING: WYOMING GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 13TH ANNUAL FIELD CONFERENCE GUIDEBOOK, P. 233-240.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 14-DEC-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

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

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