| Deposit ID | 10400477 |
|---|---|
| Record type | District |
| Mineralized Area | Poison Basin uranium area |
| Current site name | Poison Basin Uranium District |
| Alternate or previous names | Poison Basin (Baggs) Mining District, Poison Basin District, Poison Basin, Baggs |
| Point of reference | Centroid |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -107.79246, 41.0482 (WGS84) |
| Location accuracy | 5000(meters) |
| Relative position | Very accurate centroid of mineralized area. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Carbon(county)
Wyoming(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Poison Basin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Baggs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Little Snake(hydrologic unit)
White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)
White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)
Upper Colorado(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Wyoming | Carbon |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th Principal | 012N | 092W | 4, 5 | Wyoming | |
| 6th Principal | 013N | 092W | 31, 32 | Wyoming | |
| 6th Principal | 013N | 093W | 36 | Wyoming |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Uranium | Primary |
| Vanadium Critical | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Uraninite | Ore |
| Coffinite | Ore |
| Uranophane | Ore |
| Meta-Autunite | Ore |
| Schroeckingerite | Ore |
| Pyrite | Unknown |
| Result | "Grade of the ores varied from .004 to 3.21% U3O8 at the initial exploratory pits. Ranges of V2O5 are from .06 to 0.16%" |
|---|
| Model code | 204 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 30c |
| Deposit model name | Sandstone U |
| Host or associated | Host | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone | ||||
| Rock type qualifier | brown, friable sandstone within the Browns Park Formation. | ||||
| Rock unit name | Browns Park Formation | ||||
| |||||
| Centroid (1) | Alluvium and Colluvium |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure name | faults and folds |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| Year of first production | 1954 |
| Year of last production | 1963 |
| Production years | 1954-1963 |
| District name | Poison Basin District |
|---|
| Type | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Owner | Urangesellschaft USA |
| Year | 1976 |
| Year | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Material | 124,867 short tons ore |
| Ore mined | 113277mt |
| Type | In-situ |
|---|---|
| Estimate year | 1976 |
| Reserves | 1200000mt |
| Total endowment | 544mt |
| Remarks | "Estimated reserves contain 1.2 million lbs U3O8". 1,200,000 lbs = 544 mt |
Geological Survey of Wyoming, 1970, Mines and Minerals Map of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming, scale 1:500,000.
MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming, p. 24-26.
Strathmore Minerals Corp., 2011, Strathmore to Sell Juniper Ridge, Wyoming, Uarnium develpment project to Crosshair Exploration, News Release dated Nov. 1, 2010: http://www.strathmoreminerals.com/s/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=425832&_Title=Strathmore-to-Sell-Juniper-Ridge-Wyoming-Uranium-Development-Project-to-Cro
Crosshair Exploration Corp, 2012, Projects/USA Division/Juniper Ridge: available at http://www.crosshairexploration.com/s/JuniperRidge.asp.
Gregory, R.W., Jones, R.W., and Cottingham, K.D., 2010, Uranium Map of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Map Series 94, scale 1:500,000.
Dahlkamp, F.J., 2010, Uranium deposits of the World--USA and Latin America, Ch. 2, Wyoming Basins, p. 149-207: available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/g357j7q110q44r5p/fulltext.html
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Dahlkamp (p. 207) says, "The Teton No. 3 deposit, located about 3 km to the W of the Poison Basin deposit, comprises narrow, discontinuous flat-lying ore lenses, less than 1.5 m thick, in an area 210 m long, 60 m wide, and 25-30 m deep. Average ore grade is 0.17% U with some pods exceeding 1% U." |
| Deposit | About the Juniper Ridge deposit, Dahlkamp (2010, p. 207) says, "Resources recoverable by open-pit mining amount to some 3,000 t U at an average grade of 0.05% U (cutoff grade of 0.17% U). They are contained in three minable ore bodies at depth of less than 80 m. About one third of these resources is above the water table and consistes of oxidized ore, mainly autunite with minor brannerite." |
| Deposit | Dahlkamp says the Poison Basin deposit resources "amount to almost 100 t U". |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 2010-12-08 | Wilson, Anna B. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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