The King Claims is a uranium and ree mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.
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King Claims MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: King Claims
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Primary: REE
Tertiary: Thorium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Wyoming Basin
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): No mention of this site as a uranium deposit in Bull. 50.
Comment (Geology): "Samarskite(?) has been reported from pre-Cambrian granite" [Bull. 50, 1966, p. 221]
References
Reference (Deposit): USAEC ANNUAL REPORT (RME-3148), 1956-1957, P. 4.
Reference (Deposit): MIN RES WYO, 1966, GEOL SURV WYO BULL 50, P. 221.
Reference (Deposit): GEOL. SUR. OF WYO. BULL. 50, P. 202, MIN RES OF WYO., 1959
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10-00-1961
Reference (Deposit): USAEC, 1957, RME 3148, P. 44
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