The Busfield Mine is a uranium mine located in Crook county, Wyoming.
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Busfield Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Busfield Mine
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Crook
District: Elkhorn Creek uranium mining district
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Stratabound
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Year First Production: 1956
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
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: Early Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Carnotite
Ore: Uraninite
Ore: Coffinite
Ore: Tyuyamunite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): ASSAYS UP TO .82% U OXIDE. OPEN CUT AND UNDERGROUND
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: DEPOSIT 1 FT. BELOW WATER TABLE, WHICH IS 7 FT. ABOVE THE BASE OF 37 FT. MASSIVE SS
Comment (General): Copied from references section of deleted duplicate record MAS 0560110085 = newMRDS 10254594: SODAK,C.R.BOYLE QUAD U,,T.R.WAGNER & QUAD URANIUM
References
Reference (Deposit): MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.
Pages: p. 39.
Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, p. 211-212.
Pages: p. 211-212.
Reference (Location): Gregory, R.W., Jones, R.W., and Cottingham, K.D., 2010, Uranium map of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Map Series MS-94, scale 1:500,000.
Reference (Deposit): WYO. GEO. SURV. BULL. 50, 1959, P. 194.
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-15-1961
Reference (Deposit): USAEC-TEM 900
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