Wahketa Lease

The Wahketa Lease is a vanadium and uranium mine located in Larimer county, Colorado at an elevation of 5,440 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Wahketa Lease

Commodity

Primary: Vanadium
Primary: Uranium

Location

State: Colorado
County: Larimer
District: Laporte Area

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Guy Lawrence
Home Office: Laporte, Co.
Years: 1955 -

Owner Name: Elbert Norton And Victor Tamlin
Years: 1955 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year Last Production: 1955
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Interior Plains
Physiographic Province: Great Plains Province
Physiographic Section: Colorado Piedmont

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Type: R
Description: Cheyenne Basin, Front Range Uplift

Type: L
Description: Bellevue Anticline

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: PIT RUN GRAB SAMPLE RAN 0.034% EQUIV U3O8, THREE SELECT GRAB SAMPLES RAN 0.02 TO 0.11% EQUIV U3O8. RADIATION AT PITS 2 AND 3 WAS 0.06 TO 0.08 MR/HR
Analytical Data: RADIATION AT PITS 1 AND 4 WAS 0.7 TO 0.12 MR/HR. ORE GRADE WAS 0.07% U3O8 AND 0.05% V2O5.

Materials

Ore: Carnotite

Comments

Comment (Workings): FOUR SMALL OPEN CUTS

Comment (Location): ON DAKOTA HOGBACK 3 MILES NW FROM LAPORTE. ELEV AND LAT-LONG GIVEN ARE FOR CENTER W2 W2 SEC. 18. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1980)

Comment (Deposit): DAKOTA STRIKES NORTH-SOUTH, DIPS 30 WEST ON WEST LIMB OF NNW-PLUNGING ANTICLINE

References

Reference (Deposit): NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 211.

Reference (Deposit): GROSSMAN, E.L., 1955, AEC DEB-P-3-1696

Reference (Production): NELSON-MOORE AND OTHERS, 1978

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