Unknown (area south of Saratoga)

The Unknown (area south of Saratoga) is a uranium mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.

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Site Name

Primary: Unknown (area south of Saratoga)
Secondary: Saratoga area (10254182, deleted)

Commodity

Primary: Uranium

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Saratoga area

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Deposit
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1953
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Carnotite

Comments

Comment (Location): Saratoga area divided into a northern and southern part. There are two clusters of small prospects, the northern one is in T18N, R84W and is Redox; the southern cluster in T16N, R83 and 84W, is "desert evaporite" type. (See Gregory and others, 2010, MS-94).

Comment (Production): There are no known productive mines in this area.

Comment (General): Quoted from TEI-440, p. 179: "South of Saratoga, on a high tableland area, mineralizsation is present in many prospect pits and on natural exposures of the North Park formation. The North Park formations consists of several hundred feet of non-marine tuffaceous light-colord rocks, chiefly sandstone with abundant glass shards. Uranium minerals were seen in sections 7, 18, 19, T16N, R83W, and sections 13, 14, and 15,T16N, R84W. Uranium minerals likewise occur in alluvial gravel and clay that overlie the bedrock. Yellow coating on the under sides of pebbles in the alluvium is very common and the minerals are typically associated with caliche-like deposits of calcium carbonate and gypsum."

References

Reference (Deposit): MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.
Pages: p. 54.

Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10-00-1961

Reference (Deposit): GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYO. BULL. 50, P. 193, MIN. RES. OF WYO. 1959.

Reference (Deposit): USAEC-TEI-440, P. 179
Pages: p. 179.

Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50 [rev], 287 p.
Pages: p. 210.

Reference (Deposit): Gregory, R.W., Jones, R.W., and Cottingham, K.D., 2010, Uranium Map of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Map Series 94, scale 1:500,000.

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