Mine detail: Salt Wells Creek

Previously called 'Titsworth Gap, Salt Wells Creek Basin, Laney Rim'

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Location

Lat / long: 41.20412, -109.04849

Resource(M)

Primary: Titanium-Heavy Minerals
Tertiary: Iron, Thorium, Zirconium
Other material: Anatase, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Monazite, Rutile, Zircon
Discovery year: 1955

Production

Operation type: Surface
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Sandstone

References

MRDSW001608
MAS560370040
DEP10068535
Reference{Deposit:: HOUSTON, R. S., AND MURPHY, J. F., 1962, TITANIFEROUS BLACK SANDSTONE DEPOSITS OF WYOMING: WYOMING GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 49, p. 108-109.}{Deposit:: Wilson, W.H., 1966, WGS Bull. 50, p. 196.}
ReporterWilson, Anna B., Cooper, Margaret