The Kermac is a uranium mine located in Fremont county, Wyoming.
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Kermac MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Kermac
Secondary: Kermac #1
Secondary: Kermac No. 1 claim
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Fremont
District: McComb area
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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: KERR MCGEE OIL INDUSTRIES
Home Office: OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Surface
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Middle Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Deposit): From TEI-440, p. 175 (quoted in its entirety because this is a difficult to find source): Kermac No. 1 claim This claim is in SE1/4NE1/4NW1/4, sec. 3, T39N, R92W. The uranium mineral is pale yellowish green, highly fluorescent, and was identified by L.B. Riley as metaautunite. The sample contained 0.59% eU and 0.80% U. The mineral is in the lower 10 to 20 feet of a 50-foot exposure of the upper Eocene (?) Tepee Trail (?) formation which was deposited in a valley cut in brown pre-Cambrian granite. No extensive exploration had been done at the time of the examination. The metaautunite occurs abundantly in pale green bentonitic plastic claystone and green bentonitic coarse-grained arkosic sandstone. Maximum radioactivity noted on the surface was 3 mr/hr.
Comment (Geology): WIND RIVER FM EOCENE AGE
References
Reference (Deposit): Love, J.D., 1954, Wyoming, in U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Geologic investigations of radioactive deposits, Semiannual Progress Report, December 1, 1953 to May 31, 1954: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission TEI-440, p. 175-180.
Pages: p. 175.
Reference (Deposit): AEC PRELIM FIELD INV.AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10-00-1961
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