The Hesitation Claim is a uranium mine located in Fremont county, Wyoming.
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Hesitation Claim MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Hesitation Claim
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Fremont
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
Deposit Size: S
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: Conglomerate
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Uranophane
Comments
Comment (Identification): See record 10181563, Hesitation #1. Unable to determine, due to lack of citable references, if these are the same property.
Comment (Location): SOUTH SLOPE OF BRIDGER MOUNTAINS. The two RME reports disagree on locaiton. RME-3125 says T39N, R97W, S. Slope of Bridger Mtns. uranophane in recent conglomerate. RME-3137 says 39N, 92W (which is nearly 30 miles farther east), and uranophane-like. In order to be in the Copper Mountain district, the range should be 92W. Lat/long Coordinates corrected to 92W.
Comment (Location): This record stated PLSS was 4N, 3W with Wind River meridian. ABW corrected to 39N, 92W per cited reference RME-3137.
References
Reference (Deposit): Gruner, J.W., and Smith, D.K., Jr., 1955, PROGRESS REPORT NO. 10 FOR PERIOD APRIL 1 TO OCTOBER 1, 1955: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission RME-3125, 19 p.
Pages: p. 15.
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10-00-1961
Reference (Deposit): Gruner, J.W., Smith, D.K., Jr., and Knox, J.A., 1956, Annual REPORT FOR PERIOD APRIL 1, 1955 TO March 31, 1956. Part II: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission RME-3137, Part II, 24 p.
Pages: p. 9
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