The Carlile Mine is a uranium mine located in Crook county, Wyoming.
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Carlile Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Carlile Mine
Secondary: Homestake Mining Co.
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Crook
District: Carlile uranium district
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Homestake Mining Company
Info Year: 1961
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Stratabound
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Year First Production: 1953
Year Last Production: 1955
Discovery Year: 1952
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Interior Plains
Physiographic Province: Great Plains Province
Physiographic Section: Black Hills
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Tyuyamunite
Ore: Carnotite
Comments
Comment (Geology): 4 ORE BODIES in a sandstone lens in the upper unit of the lakota-fuson formations undivided, of Early Cretaceous age. Canotite and tyuyamunite are the preincipal ore minerals, and samples high in uranium are also high in selenium and arensic.
Comment (Deposit): UNDERGR.= TR. TO 1.93% U OXIDE; SURFACE= .005-.34% U OXIDE; STOPED IN 1955. OPEN CUT UNDERGROUND OPERATION
Comment (Deposit): Mining operations, both open cut and underground, by Homesake Mining Company ceased in 1955. At that time samples from underground workings varied from a trace to 1.93% U3O8; those from surface workings 0.005-0.34% U3O8. (Bull. 50, p. 212)
References
Reference (Deposit): Bergendahl, M.H., Davis, R.E., and Izett, G.A., 1961, Geology and mineral deposits of the Carlile quadrangle, Crook County, Wyoming, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1082‑J, p. 613-706.
Pages: p. 668.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, 287 p.
Pages: 212 p.
Reference (Deposit): WYO GS FOR MAS
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-15-1961
Reference (Deposit): WYO. GEOL. SURV. BULL. 50, 1959, PG. 194.
Pages: p. 194.
Reference (Location): Gregory, R.W., Jones, R.W., and Cottingham, K.D., 2010, Uranium map of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Map Series MS-94, scale 1:500,000.
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