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Seismic Mine

Past Producer in Fremont 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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10230340
MAS/MILS ID 0560130677
Record type Site
Current site name Seismic Mine
Alternate or previous names Seismic, Windy
Included sites Crooks Gap - Green Mountain uranium area, Sheep Mountain Operations

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.82652, 42.39078 (WGS84)
Elevation 2176
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position Shaft on Bailey's pl. 2 sketch map on an airphoto transferred to 24k Jeffrey City topo.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jeffrey City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bairoil(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sweetwater(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 028N 092W 21 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Bailey shows Seismic Mine as a shaft west of a small road intersection on the north side of a short spur ridge running NW from Sheep Mountain. Not certain if this is the same shaft as is shown on the Jeffrey Ctiy 24k topo just 70 m to the NW.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.82652, 42.39078
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • As of May, 1969 the Seismic Mine was producing about 100 tons of ore per day (Bailey, 1969, p. 114).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WYO. G.S. FOR MAS

  • Deposit

    OPERATOR CONTINENTAL V., W. GIDWITZ

  • Deposit

    Bailey, R.V., 1969, Uranium deposits in the Great Divide Basin--crooks Gap Area, Fremont and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming, in R.B. Parker, ed., Contributions to Geology--Wyoming Uranium Issue, v. 8, no. 2, pt. 1, p. 105-120.

  • 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 30-AUG-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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