Busfield Mine

The Busfield Mine is a uranium mine located in Crook county, Wyoming.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Busfield Mine  

State:  Wyoming

County:  Crook

Elevation:

Commodity: Uranium

Lat, Long: 44.80556, -104.74222

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Busfield Mine MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Busfield Mine


Commodity

Primary: Uranium


Location

State: Wyoming
County: Crook
District: Elkhorn Creek uranium mining district


Land Status

Not available


Holdings

Not available


Workings

Not available


Ownership

Not available


Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Stratabound
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Year First Production: 1956
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N


Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Interior Plains
Physiographic Province: Great Plains Province
Physiographic Section: Missouri Plateau, Unglaciated


Mineral Deposit Model

Not available


Orebody

Not available


Structure

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Alterations

Not available


Rocks

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


Analytical Data

Not available


Materials

Ore: Carnotite
Ore: Uraninite
Ore: Coffinite
Ore: Tyuyamunite


Comments

Comment (Deposit): ASSAYS UP TO .82% U OXIDE. OPEN CUT AND UNDERGROUND

Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: DEPOSIT 1 FT. BELOW WATER TABLE, WHICH IS 7 FT. ABOVE THE BASE OF 37 FT. MASSIVE SS

Comment (General): Copied from references section of deleted duplicate record MAS 0560110085 = newMRDS 10254594: SODAK,C.R.BOYLE QUAD U,,T.R.WAGNER & QUAD URANIUM


References

Reference (Deposit): MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.
Pages: p. 39.

Reference (Deposit): Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, p. 211-212.
Pages: p. 211-212.

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

Reference (Deposit): WYO. GEO. SURV. BULL. 50, 1959, P. 194.

Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-15-1961

Reference (Deposit): USAEC-TEM 900


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