Ackerman

Past Producer 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10254251
MAS/MILS ID 0560110083
Record type Site
Current site name Ackerman

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -104.75561, 44.79134 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Mine in SE4 sec. 34 shown but not labeled on topo.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wood Canyon(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 056N 066W 34 SE4 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • District from MS-94 and MINOBRAS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock type qualifier limy sandstone
    Rock unit name upper unit of the Fall River Formation (Inyan Kara Group)

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -104.75561, 44.79134

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 Elkhorn Creek uranium mining district

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the ownership information

  • OWNER OPERATOR QUAD URANIUM / T R WAGNER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AEC RESERVE ESTIMATE 1973

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIMINARY FIELD INV, AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

  • Deposit

    AD VALOREM TAX DIVISION, DEPT OF REVENUE

  • 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.

  • 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 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