Ketchum Butte

The Ketchum Butte is a uranium mine located in Carbon county, Wyoming.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Ketchum Butte
Secondary: Ketchum Buttes

Commodity

Primary: Uranium

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Carbon

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Year: 2010
Mined: 130.000 mt
Material type: 143 st X .9071847 = 130 mt

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1954
Year Last Production: 1955
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Wyoming Basin

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: Miocene

Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Miocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Not available

Comments

Comment (Deposit): Although Bull. 50 describes Ketchum Buttes as being in sec. 9, it mentions the western-most "Butte" which the topo shows in sec. 8. Bull 50 goes on to describe a prospect pit which is very likely the prospect shown on the topo on the west-most butte. "A small prospect pit shows uranium mineralization in 3-ft. thick limonite-stained claystone. A 3 ft. channel sample in the claystone assayed 0.32% U3O8." (Bull, 50, p. 210)

Comment (Geology): MINOBRAS (p. A-8) says:"Past production, uranophane in limonte-stained claystone-sdandsotne in the North Park Fm.(?) (Miocene) some assays show 0.32% U3O8." But RME-3125 says Browns Park Formation.

References

Reference (Deposit): Gruner, J.W., Smith, D.K., Jr., and Knox, J.A., 1956, Annual REPORT FOR APRIL 1, 1955 TO March 31, 1956. Part II: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission RME-3137, Part II, 24 P.
Pages: p. 6.

Reference (Deposit): Gruner, J.W., and Smith, D.K., Jr., 1955, PROGRESS REPORT NO. 10 FOR PERIOD APRIL 1 TO OCTOBER 1, 1955: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission RME-3125, 19 P.
Pages: p. 12.

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

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

Reference (Deposit): MINOBRAS, 1976, URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR WYOMING, 63 p. and appendix.
Pages: p. A-8.

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