Commodities
PrimaryUranium
Commodity typeE
Geology
Host rockSandstone · Wind River Formation
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Discovery year1955
Identification
Deposit ID10400479
Alternate namesShirley Basin Uranium Mining District, Kerr-McGee Corp. Pit, South Walker-Sullivan Mines, Nall Lease, Homestake Mine, Getty Mine (proposed, as of 1976), North Walker Mine, Petrotomics Pit, Petrotomics, Dave Pit, Shirley Basin mine, Utah Mines, Shirley Basin uranium area
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates42.3344, -106.23714
References
MINOBRAS, 1976, Uranium Guidebook for Wyoming, 63 p, and appendix.Harshman, E.N., 1972, Geology and uranium deposits, Shirley Basin area, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professionsl Paper 745, 82 p.Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral resources of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Bulletin 50 [rev.], p. 211.Gregory, R.W., Jones, R.W., and Cottingham, K.D., 2010, Uranium Map of Wyoming: Wyoyming State Geological Survey Map Series 94, scale 1:500,000.Geological Survey of Wyoming, 1970, Mines and Minerals Map of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming, scale 1:500,000.Cameco Annual Report, 2009, http://www.cameco.com/annual_report/2009/mda/reserves_resources/resources/Cameco Annual Information Form 2010Dahlkamp, F.J., 2010, Uranium deposits of the World--USA and latin America, Ch. 2, Wyoming Basins, p. 149-207. [available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/g357j7q110q44r5p/fulltext.html]