Golden Goose Mine

Past Producer in Fremont 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. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400452
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Goose Mine
Included sites Sheep Mountain Operations, Crooks Gap - Green Mountain uranium area

Comments on the site identification

  • There are 4 preexisiting records for the Golden Goose: Golden Goose #1 Claim 10081032=W032718 Golden Goose #2 10157609 =0560130323 Golden Goose Mine #1 10303245 = 0560130322 Golden Goose #4 10279158 =0560130491

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.82139, 42.38833 (WGS84)

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 C of W2 of NE4 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Bailey (1969, p. 108, pl. 2) shows a shaft to the SE of a bend in the mine roads.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.82139, 42.38833

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type E
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crooks Gap

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner WESTERN NUCLEAR INC.

Comments on the production information

  • As of May, 1969 the Golden Goose Mine was producing about 500 tons of ore per day (Bailey, 1969, p. 114).
  • One of the 4 largest producing mines in the district (Dahlkamp, 2010, p. 181).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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.

  • Reserve-Resource

    AEC RESERVE ESTIMATE, 1973

  • Production

    USBM PROD TABS (WASH)

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.

  • Deposit

    Dahlkamp, F.J., 2010, Uranium deposits of the world—USA and Latin America, Wyoming Basins: SpringerLink, p. 149-207, available for download at http://www.springerlink.com/content/x74946/?MUD=MP. [Note that the bibliography, p. 381-414 is not available online, and since this is an online only publication, it is therefore not available at all].

  • Deposit

    USAEC ANNUAL REPORT (RME-3137, PART II), 1955-1956, P.

  • Deposit

    MESA MET-NOMET MINE FILE

  • Deposit

    ENERGY RESOURCES MAO OF WY

  • Deposit

    AEC PRELIM. FIELD INV., AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 2010-08-30 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey revised 15-jan-2013. Merged and deleted 4 duplicate records.
Reporter 1984-03-01 Barari, Rachel A. South Dakota Geological Survey MRDS W032718 = 10081032 (Golden Goose #1 Claim)
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0560130323 = 10157609, MAS 0560130491 = 10279158, MAS 0560130322 = 10303245

Beyond USGS

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

External references