Wyoming · Crook County
Past Producer

Busfield Mine

Crook County, Wyoming, United States
Uranium
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Commodities
PrimaryUranium
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeStratabound
Deposit sizeY
Materials
Ore mineralsCarnotite, Coffinite, Uraninite, Tyuyamunite
Geology
Host rockSandstone · Fall River Formation (Inyan Kara Group)
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Production years1956- early 1960s.
First production1956
Identification
Deposit ID10108479
MRDS IDDC07977
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates44.80551, -104.74283
References
USAEC-TEM 900WYO. GEO. SURV. BULL. 50, 1959, P. 194.CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-15-1961MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p. and appendix.Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50, p. 211-212.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.