The Richards is a uranium mine located in Crook county, Wyoming.
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Richards MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Richards
Secondary: Richards Property
Secondary: Richards and Myers Property
Secondary: Anomaly 1
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Crook
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: W.B.RICHARDS,A.W.RICHARDS,& I.E.MYERS
Home Office: ALADDIN,WYO.
Owner Name: W.B. Richards and A.W. Richards
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): "Uranium minerals in sandstone (fall River Formation)." (MINOBRAS, p. A-10).
Comment (Deposit): "High radioactivity is in a 3-inch thick ironstone layer of the Fall River sandstone. No visible uranium minerals were observed." Two assays of chip samples yielded 0.12% U3O8 and 0.06% V2O5 and 0.04% U3O8 and 0.09% V2O5. {RME-1061, p. 9]
Comment (Identification): ABW combined duplicate records based on similar names, lack of detailed location information, and minimal information in cited sources.
Comment (Deposit): UP TO .12% U OXIDE
References
Reference (Deposit): MINBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.
Pages: p. A-10.
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. [note that this publication is in the USGS library restricted section]
Pages: p. 9, Anomaly 1
Reference (Location): AEC PRELIM.FIELD INV.,AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-15-1961
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