Deposit

Cottonwood Creek

Cottonwood Creek 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 (43.832, -108.454 approx.)

Commodities: heavy minerals; rare earth elements

Deposit model: unclassified

Geology

The maximum thickness of the black sandstone is reported to be 2.7 m (9 ft), with zircon accounting for 18.5 percent of the heavy-mineral fraction and monazite making up 1 percent. (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