The Unknown (area south of Saratoga) is a uranium mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.
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Unknown (area south of Saratoga) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unknown (area south of Saratoga)
Secondary: Saratoga area (10254182, deleted)
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Saratoga area
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Deposit
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1953
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Carnotite
Comments
Comment (Location): Saratoga area divided into a northern and southern part. There are two clusters of small prospects, the northern one is in T18N, R84W and is Redox; the southern cluster in T16N, R83 and 84W, is "desert evaporite" type. (See Gregory and others, 2010, MS-94).
Comment (Production): There are no known productive mines in this area.
Comment (General): Quoted from TEI-440, p. 179: "South of Saratoga, on a high tableland area, mineralizsation is present in many prospect pits and on natural exposures of the North Park formation. The North Park formations consists of several hundred feet of non-marine tuffaceous light-colord rocks, chiefly sandstone with abundant glass shards. Uranium minerals were seen in sections 7, 18, 19, T16N, R83W, and sections 13, 14, and 15,T16N, R84W. Uranium minerals likewise occur in alluvial gravel and clay that overlie the bedrock. Yellow coating on the under sides of pebbles in the alluvium is very common and the minerals are typically associated with caliche-like deposits of calcium carbonate and gypsum."
References
Reference (Deposit): MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.
Pages: p. 54.
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10-00-1961
Reference (Deposit): GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYO. BULL. 50, P. 193, MIN. RES. OF WYO. 1959.
Reference (Deposit): USAEC-TEI-440, P. 179
Pages: p. 179.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50 [rev], 287 p.
Pages: p. 210.
Reference (Deposit): 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.
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