Albany Claims

The Albany Claims is a uranium mine located in Albany county, Wyoming.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Albany Claims
Secondary: Albany #1 Claim
Secondary: Albany County No. 1 Claim (?)
Secondary: Cundall & Waters Mining Claim
Secondary: Waters & Cundall Mining Claim
Secondary: Unknown

Commodity

Primary: Uranium

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Albany

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

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Ownership

Owner Name: WATERS & CUNDELL
Info Year: 1973

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

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Orebody

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Structure

Not available

Alterations

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Rocks

Name: Granite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Uranophane

Comments

Comment (Deposit): "past production, uranophane coatings in fractured granitic rocks." (MINOBRAS, p. A-2)

Comment (Deposit): "Uranophane occurs as coatings along north-northeast trending, vertical joint surfaces which are adjacent to a N53E striking vertical fault vein in pre-Cambrian granite. Uranophane also occurs in small clay fillings localized along horizontal joint surfaces." (Bull. 50, p. 209).

Comment (Deposit): 20 FT SHAFT in SEC. 19. A prospect is shown on the topo in SW4 of SE4 of Sec. 24.

Comment (Names): Waters and Cundall Mining Claims

Comment (Location): This claim is the master record for DEPIDs 10205166, 10278678, and 10018724.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): AEC RESERVE ESTIMATE 1973 [from deleted record 10205166 = MAS 0560010054]

Comment (Identification): ABW deleted duplicate records 10205166 (MAS 0560010054) and 10018724 (MRDS DC06246) and 10278678 (MAS 0560010097)

References

Reference (Deposit): DMEA REPORTS

Reference (Deposit): AEC PRELIM FIELD INV. AIRBORNE RA ANOMALIES

Reference (Deposit): MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.
Pages: p. A-2.

Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 06-30-1959

Reference (Deposit): DMEA Docket No. 4390, 1957, 94 p., http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/scans/wy/dmea/4390_DMEA.pdf
URL: http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/scans/wy/dmea/4390_DMEA.pdf

Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, 287 p.
Pages: p. 209.

Reference (Deposit): MRAK 1958 WGS

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