Ajo Claims

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

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Ajo Claims
Secondary: Ajo #7
Secondary: Ajo Claims #2 & #7
Secondary: Nugget Coal & Timber Co. Property
Secondary: Nugget Coal and Timber Company

Commodity

Primary: Uranium

Location

State: Wyoming
County: Carbon
District: Eastern Shirley Mountains

Land Status

Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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

Type: Located Claim

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Nugget Coal & Timber Co.
Info Year: 1957

Production

Year: 2010
Mined: 4.000 mt
Material type: 4 short tons X .9071847 = 3.6 mt (note that the database rounds the 3.6 st back up to 4 mt) Value was correctly input as 4 short tons.

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
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

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Tyuyamunite

Comments

Comment (General): DMEA Docket was a lucky find! This is a complete outline of the proposed mining operation and includes location and claim maps and geology as well as ownership information and economics.

Comment (Geology): BASAL 15 FT. TEN SLEEP FM., PENNSYLVANIAN

Comment (Ownership): D. SNYDER AND R. BUCKINGHAM, 9-73 [from deleted MAS record 0560070124. Unsure if these are owners. Incorrectly placed in the bibliographic references.]

References

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

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): Gruner, J.W., and Knox, J.A., 1957, ANNUAL REPORT for April 1, 1956 to March 31, 1957: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission RME-3148, 50 p.
Pages: p. 43.

Reference (Deposit): Defense Mineral Exploration Administration, Docket No. 4865, 56 p. [http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/scans/wy/dmea/4865_DMEA.pdf]
URL: http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/scans/wy/dmea/4865_DMEA.pdf

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