Powder River Basin Uranium District

The Powder River Basin Uranium District is a uranium mine located in Campbell county, Wyoming.

About the MRDS Data:

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: Powder River Basin Uranium District  

State:  Wyoming

County:  Campbell

Elevation:

Commodity: Uranium

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Powder River Basin Uranium District MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Powder River Basin Uranium District
Secondary: Pumpkin Buttes District
Secondary: Turnercrest-Ross District
Secondary: Highland Flats-Box Creek District
Secondary: Monument Hill (Dry Creek) District
Secondary: Powder River Basin (deposits owned by Uranerz Energy Corp, and Bayswater Uranium Corp.)
Secondary: Smith Ranch - Highland (Highland - Smith Ranch)


Commodity

Primary: Uranium


Location

State: Wyoming
County: Campbell
District: Powder River Basin


Land Status

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Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

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Production

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Deposit

Record Type: District
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:


Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

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Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Identification): Properties likely in the Powder River Basin include: Nichols Ranch, Hank, Little Butte, Jane Dough, Rolling Pin, C-line, Arkose, NAMMCO, Reno, West North Butte, Doughstick, Collins Draw (Uranerz Energy Corp.); Acadia, Cochrane, Mindy, Ella (Bayswater Uranium Corp.) [note--some of these sites may be in Montana, not Wyoming]; Moore Ranch (

Comment (Location): Acadia/Cochrane, Ella, and Mindy are all in Montana.

Comment (General): Smith Ranch - Highland is a very large ISR deposit. It is a cluster of many contributing properties.

Comment (General): Uranerz Energy Corp and Bayswater Uranium Cop. both own properties in the Powder River Basin, however neither describes the location of their properties in enough detail to locate them. The Supposedly, Kilgore Minerals Ltd. (now Bayswater Uranium Corp.) filed a NI-43-101 on June 19, 2007, however ABW was unable to locate a copy of that report online or through www.sedar.com (where such report should have been filed. Kilgore is not listed in www.sedar.com, but Bayswater Uranium (formerly Kilgore Minerals Ltd) has a number of reports on that date, none of which are Technical Reports.). In June 2007, Kilgore Minerals reported that Kilgore Minerals Ltd-- Montana & Wyoming Uranium Properties - National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report prepared by James R. Guilinger of World Industrials Minerals, LLC was filed on SEDAR. (http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Kilgore-Reports-Filing-of-Technical-Report-TSX-VENTURE-KAU-745202.htm)

Comment (Production): As of 2008, Smith Ranch - Highlands ISR was the only producing uranium mine in Wyoming.


References

Reference (General): MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.
Pages: p. 8-21.


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