Union Pacific Prospect

Occurrence in Carbon 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 10278818
MAS/MILS ID 0560070292
Record type Site
Current site name Union Pacific Prospect
Alternate or previous names Unknown

Comments on the site identification

  • Unknown site in Bull. 50 (the second described under Carbon Co., on p. 210) is the same location and description as Union Pacific Prospect in MINOBRAS, p. A-6.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.58204, 42.10686 (WGS84)
Elevation 2243

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

T E Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Shirley Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Casper(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Medicine Bow(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 025N 081W 30, 31 Wyoming
6th Principal 025N 082W 36 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.58204, 42.10686

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOVE J. D. (1954) RECON FOR U IN THE U.S., COLO-WYO DIST. AEC TEI-490

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, Uraniuim guidebook for Wyoming, p. A-6.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bull. 50, p. 210.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 28-DEC-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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