Lewis Dennis

Unknown 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10229990
MAS/MILS ID 0560450066
Record type Site
Current site name Lewis Dennis
Alternate or previous names Lewis-Dennis

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -104.89145, 44.77245 (WGS84)
Elevation 1155
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position MINOBRAS places Lewis Dennis on the sec. 3/4 boundary. A mine at the extreme south end of this boundary may be the Lewis Dennis. Coordinates are for the X in the extreme SW corner of Sec. 3.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cedar Ridge(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 055 N 067 W 04 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • ABW changed county from Weston to Crook (see MINOBRAS, p. 40)
  • MS-94 puts Lewis-Dennis in Elkhorn Creek mining district. MINOBRAS puts Lewis Dennis in Hulett Creek (New Haven).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category State

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR WYO., 63 p. and appendix.

  • 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.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 South Dakota School of Mines U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 18-APR-11 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references