The Nelson is a uranium mine located in Crook county, Wyoming.
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Nelson MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Nelson
Secondary: Nelson Property
Secondary: Anomaly 3
Secondary: A.R. Nelson
Secondary: A.R. Nelson Property
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Crook
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
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Workings
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Ownership
Owner Name: A.R. Nelson
Home Office: Aladdin, Wyoming
Info Year: 1955
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Stratabound
Operation Type: Unknown
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
Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Early Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): "Observed mineralization is confined to a small lense-shapeed zone in a 1-foot thick, carbonaceous sandstone bed of the Fall River formation. High radioactive count is found along the outcrop for approximately 100 feet." [RME-1061, p. 11]
Comment (Deposit): UP TO 2.18% U OXIDE.
Comment (Geology): MINERALIZ. IN SMALL LENS-SHAPED ZONE IN 1 FT. THICK CARB. SS BED. 100 FT OF HIGH RADIOACT.
Comment (Analytical Data): 2 assay results on chip samples: 0.72% U3O8, 0.30 V2O5 and 1.18% U3O8, 0.40% V2O5.
References
Reference (Deposit): Nash, A.L., 1955, Airborne reconnaissance of eastern flank of the Black Hills, South Dakota, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Report RME-1061, 16 p.
Pages: p. 11, Anomaly 3
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-15-1961
Reference (Deposit): AEC PRELIM.FIELD INV.,AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES
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