The Campbell #1 is a uranium and selenium mine located in Campbell county, Wyoming.
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Mine Info
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Campbell #1 MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Campbell #1
Secondary: Campbel No. 1
Secondary: Campbell Group
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Primary: Selenium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Campbell
District: Pumpkin Buttes
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Masek, J. L.
Years: 1956 -
Owner Name: J.L. Masek
Info Year: 1958
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Interior Plains
Physiographic Province: Great Plains Province
Physiographic Section: Missouri Plateau, Unglaciated
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: Eocene
Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Eocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Tyuyamunite
Ore: Uraninite
Ore: Uranophane
Ore: Coffinite
Comments
Comment (Location): RME-3137 (PART II) GIVES RANGE OF 75W
Comment (Development): Inactive as of 1958.
Comment (Production): Campbell Group produced about 100 tons as of Jan. 1958.
References
Reference (Deposit): USAEC PROGRESS REPORT NO. 10 FOR PERIOD APRIL 1 TO OCTOBER 1, 1955, (RME-3125), P. 12
Reference (Deposit): USAEC ANNUAL REPORT (RME-3137, PART II), 1955-1956, P. 4
Reference (Deposit): MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming.
Reference (Deposit): Mrak, Vernon A., 1958, Uranium depoists in the Tertiary sediments of the Poder River Basin, Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Association 13th Field Trip Guidebook, p. 233-240.
Pages: p. 236.
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