Deposit

Ranger

Ranger is a rare earth occurrence in Wyoming, recorded in the USGS USMIN rare earth element occurrence database (ver. 4.0, June 2019).

Facts on this page last re-verified Aug 12, 2026 — the oldest verification date among its current claims. How we verify.

Location: Wyoming, United States (42.904, -106.894 approx.)

Commodities: uranium; rare earth elements; thorium

Deposit model: paleo beach placer · unclassified

Geology

This fossil beach placer is in the Lance Formation but cuts an arkosic sandstone in the Lewis Shale. "Heavy-mineral analysis concluded magnetite, ilmenite, xenotime, and zircon were part of the placer." (Sutherland and Cola (2016))

Record imported from USGS USMIN ver. 4.0 (June 2019). Developments after that date appear on facility records, not here; see the methodology.

Sources

U.S. Geological Survey · published Jun 1, 2019 · retrieved Aug 12, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback snapshot 20260427015518 of the ScienceBase item exists but the archive service returned 503 on verification 2026-08-12; recheck on a weekly pass