Fly Group

Past Producer in Converse 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10278674
MAS/MILS ID 0560090152
Record type Site
Current site name Fly Group
Alternate or previous names Fly

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -105.61872, 43.21385 (WGS84)
Elevation 1554

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Converse(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newcastle(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Fork Cheyenne(hydrologic unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cheyenne(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Converse

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 37N 73W 3 NW Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -105.61872, 43.21385

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • 4 STRAT HOR MIN ORE IN N TREND ZONE 1300F LONG & UP TO 300F
    ORE HOR 45F TO 100F BELOW SURF
  • NO U MINERALS FOUND

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southern Powder River

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner B and H Mine Inc. (B & H Co)
    Year 1965
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Susquehanna Western, Inc.
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Archuletta Drilling Co
  • Type Unknown
    Owner F. B Anschutz

Comments on the production information

  • Produced 500 tons as of Jan. 1958.

Comments on development

  • Active as of 1958.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Mrak, Vernon A., 1958m Uranium deposits in the Tertirary sediments of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Association 13th Field Trip Guidebook, p. 233-240.

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium guidebook for Wyoming.

  • Deposit

    WYO. GS FOR M.A.S

  • Deposit

    USAEC, APR. 1, 1957, RME 3148, P. 44.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10-05-1961.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 16-DEC-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate records 10018964 and 10157073
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey DC07820 = 10018964

Beyond USGS

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