 | | Report (issue) | | β = 90◦ 40(5)0 X-ray Powder Pattern: Peanut mine, Colorado, USA. 4.40 (100), 3.61 (85), 1.838 (21), 2...82.16 17.84 Total [100.0] 100.00 (1) Peanut mine, Colorado, USA; by spectrophotometry, H2 O by CHN analyzer;...montroseite, paramontroseite, uraninite, coffinite (Peanut mine, Colorado, USA); hewettite, fervanite, schoderite...Arkansas, USA). Distribution: In the USA, found at the Peanut mine, Bull Canyon area, Uravan district, Montrose...Slick Rock district, San Miguel Co., Colorado; in the Wilson Springs (Potash Sulphur Springs) mine, Garland |  | | Report (issue) | | 02(5) c = 8.37(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Colorado Plateau, USA; strong preferred orientation. 8.51 (100)...11.73 18.85 [100.0] 100.00 4+ (1) Peanut mine, Colorado, USA; total V and V determined directly, V5+...fracture surfaces and replacing fossil wood in Colorado Plateau-type U–V deposits. Association: Montroseite...uraninite, coffinite, vanadiferous silicates. Distribution: In the USA, in Colorado, from the Peanut mine, Bull...Bull Canyon, in the J.J. and Hummer mines, Paradox Valley, and at the Shattuck-Denn mine, Club Mesa, Uravan |  | | Book | | AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN OVERVIEW RESOURCES TECTONICS GEOLOGY URAVAN MINERAL...AND MINING AREAS SLICK ROCK DISTRICT GYPSUM VALLEY DISTRICT BULL CANYON DISTRICT URAVAN DISTRICT GATEWAY...GATEWAY DISTRICT (EASTERN GATEWAY AREA) MC ELMO CREEK DRAINAGE AREA LA SAL CREEK AREA PARADOX DISTRICT BEAVER...VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER REGION...VALLEY DISTRICT COTTONWOOD AND BUTLER WASH AREAS MONTEZUMA CANYON DISTRICT SEVEN-MILE CANYON AREA ORE |  | | Report (volume) | | . 234 " y { " ,-t .. .~,:",. I " , COLORADO "or.! _ +, (~ STATE OF .~ :'(' COL~ADO /... BULLETIN 40 RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BlaLlllGRAPHY by James L. Nelson-Moore,...Energy COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESUURCES STATE OF COLORADO DENVER, COLORADO 1978...ete 11 st r ng of rad i aaet 1ve occurrences 1n Colorado, with a comprehensive blbi iography and bibliographic...on the Colorado Plateau sparked several periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SEPTEMBEI{_OCTOBER, 1956 Nos. 9 and 10 WITH HYDROXYL COFFINITE, A URANOUS SIICATE SUBSTITUTION: A NEW XIINERAL*...uranium deposits in the sedimentary rocks of the colorado Plateaus province, in several localities peripheral...in vein depositsin the copper King mine, Larimer county, colorado. It is also associatedwith asphaltic...from sediments in Texas and Oklaholna. In many Colorado Plateau mines cofiinite and uraninite are the...minerals in the unoxidized ore. In hand specimen coffinite is black; many of the samples have an adamantine |  | | Report (issue) | | Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Colorado Plateau Uranium Ores Compiled by ROBERT M. GARRELS and ESPER...provided an unequaled opportunity to investigate the Colorado Plateau uranium ores. This volume summarizes the...vanadium clay minerals together with uraninite, coffinite, and montroseite present in rocks containing organic...uranium deposits than those represented on the Colorado Plateau. The general patterns of the oxidation...Introduction. 1 Part 1. Geologic setting of the Colorado Plateau ores, by Alice D. Weeks and R. M. Garrels________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | QUADRIVALENT VANADIUM OXIDE FROM THE PEANUT MINE, MONTROSE COUNTY, COLORADO* M. E. Tnoursow, Canl H. Roacn...quadrivalent vanadium oxide from the Peanut mine, Montrose County, Colo., has the formula VO(OH)s. The...mineralogy of the vanadium-uranium ore at the Peanut mine, Montrose County, Colo., was begun early in 1954 by Carl...new vanadium mineral to be described from the peanut mine. It is named for Captain Clarence Edward Dutton...was one of the first geologists to work in the Colorado Plateau region and who was a member of the U. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Mobility of uranium with ground water in near surface...uranium minerals, e.g. ~ uraninite (UO~) and coffinite (U SiO~). U r a n i u m is present in the +6 valence...T h e dissolution of uraninite, and possibly coffinite, without oxidation is not an important process...oxidation. Oxidation and leaching of uraninite and coffinite, however, are greatly enhanced at intermediate...sufficient silica (< 60ppm as SiO 2 ) in solution, coffinite would form preferentially. There are certain refractory |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A NEW QUADRIVALENT VANADIUM MINERAL FROM THE COLORADO PLATEAUX M. E. TnoursoN,C. H. Roecn,aNn Ronunr...been found in five vanadium-uranium mines on the Colorado Plateau. It occurs as dark-green micaceous plates...002. A chemical analysis of material from the Peanut mine showed, in per cent: CaO, 11.6; YzOq,67.7; V:Ou...the J. R. Simplot Mining Company of Boise, Idaho, former owner of the Peanut mine. INrnonucrroN AND...recognizedin a sample from the Sundown Claim, San Miguel County, Colo. The sample was submitted by L. B. Riley |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | systems as applied to the interpretation of the Colorado Plateau ore deposits* H. T. EVAXS. Jr. and R....outstanding feature of the uranium ores in the Colorado Plateau sandstones is their high vanadium content...Range in Colorado. uranium is virtually absent’ from the vanadium ore, while in the White Canyon, Green...of western (‘olorado, known appropriately as the Uravan mineral belt (FISHER and HILPEET. 195%), the ores...intensive programme of study and dev-elopment in the Colorado Plateau area sponsored by the Atomic .F:nergy |  | | Report (volume) | | Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Mines Special Reports _.......__ ________ Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology...Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal _ , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta _ Bulletin, Geological...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...the areas and subjects are listed under States, "Colorado Plateau," "United States," or under a few subject |  | | Report (issue) | | 55(5)0 X-ray Powder Pattern: Monument No. 2 mine, Arizona, USA. 4.70 (100), 3.83 (50), 2.45 (50), 3.16 (42)...28 (2) 12.65 100.00 (1) La Sal No. 2 mine, Colorado, USA; estimated about 50% montroseite–paramontroseite...tyuyamunite-bearing sandstone (La Sal No. 2 mine, Colorado, USA). Association: Coffinite, uraninite, clausthalite, montroseite...Distribution: In the USA, in Colorado, from the La Sal No. 2 mine, Lumsden Canyon, Gateway district, and in the...the Golden Cycle, J.J., and Peanut mines, Montrose Co. From the Mi Vida mine, San Juan Co., Utah; at a |  | | Report (issue) | | the La Sal Quadrangle San Juan County, Utah, and Montrose County, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Prepared...the La Sal Quadrangle San Juan County, Utah, and Montrose County, Colorado By WILLIAM D. CARTER and JAMES...Chinle Formation ______________________ _ Glen Canyon Group (lower part) ________ _ Wingate Sandstone...Triassic(?) Series ____ .. _______________ _ Glen Canyon Group (middle part) _______ _ Kayenta Formation...) and Jurassic Systems _________________ _ Glen Canyon Group (upper part) ____________ _ Navajo Sandstone |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 142 143 144 147 149 552 152 155 Formation of coffinite and vanadium silicates .........................are few, the commonones being uraninite, UO2+x,coffinite,UO2(SiO4)l_x(OH)4x, montroseite,VO(OH), vanadium...achievedlocally during the time of ore depositionon the Colorado Plateauand hascertainlybeenachievedin subsequent...DISCUSSION WITH REFERENCE TO THE ORES OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU The portionsof Figures 12, 13 and 14... xUO•'yV20•'zH20, is fairly widespreadon the Colorado Plateau. Apparently y is somewhatgreater than |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DOLORESITE, A NEW VANADIUM OXIDE MINERAL FROM THE COLORADO PLATEAU* T. W. SrnnN, L.R. SrrnlF, H. T. Evar...River in southwestern Colorado, has been identified from 11 mines on the Colorado Plateau. Very fine fragments...named for the Dolores River, a major stream of the Colorado Plateau, was first collected by L. B. Riley, L...No. 2 mine at the head of Lumsden Canyon about 3! air miles southwest of Gateway, Mesa County, Colo....At the La Sal No. 2 mine, doloresite occurs intimately associated with coffinite, U(SiOa)1-"(OH)r (Stiefi |  | | Report (issue) | | ____________________________________ _ History of mining and production ________________ _ General description...States. FIGURE 1. Map showing location of uranium-mining districts in West-Central United States-------------------------2...--8. Cross sections of roll ore bodies of the Colorado Plateau region_________________________________________...size in sandstone beds of Triassic age in the Colorado Plateau region__ 10. Histogram showing the percentage...deposits in sandstone beds of Triassic age in the Colorado Plateau region_______________________________ |  | Collins, Donley S., Cobban, Robert R., Foord, Eugene E., Murphy, Jack A. (1989) Bibliography for update and revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado -- a 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel, Part A - Paper copy --Bibliography data file disks. Open-File Report Vol. 1989 (89-206) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr89206a | Report (issue) | | Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961). |  | | Report (volume) | | Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT |  | | Book | | mid-1957, of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in Wyo1ning. These...doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the...siliceous and Ruoritic types, and the oxidized Colorado Plateau deposits are desc1ibed vvith those that...origin, e.g., Blind River, \i\litwatersrand, and Colorado Plateau. The writer has attempted to present equitably.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colorado Plateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | RoBERT Mevnnowrtz, calcium tetravanadite from the Colorado Plateau. Science123, No. 3207, p. 1078 (1956)...aggregates of platy crystals at the Peanut Mine, Montrose County, Colo., where it occurs as coatings...also been found at the Sundown claim, San Miguel County, Colo., the Shattuck-Den lease on tt7 118 NEW...J. J. Mine in Paradox Valley, both in Montrose Co., and the Vanadium Queen Mine, San Juan County, Utah...uraninite, and coffinite, The name is for J. R. Simplot, former owner of the Peanut Mine. M. F. Kupletskite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PLS. SEPTEMBER 1968 URANIUM EMPLACEMENT IN THE COLORADO PLATEAU (Vice-Presidential Address, Section E...Four hypotheses of uranium emplacement on the Colorado Plateau justify consideration: (1) the hydrothermal...2015 1076 P. F. KERR—URANIUM EMPLACEMENT IN COLORADO PLATEAU Available criteria Absolute-age data...of the Colorado Plateau 3. Uranium mineralization and alteration accompanying faulting 4. Mine adit in...northeast to Arizona on the southwest (Fig. 1). Most mining activity is con- Page Figure 12. Schematic diagram |  | | Report (volume) | | Soils and Vegetation in the Yellow Cat Area Grand County, Utah B'Y HELEN L. CANNON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...Grand County, Utah. 2. Botanical relationships in the McCoy group, Yellow Cat area, Grand County, Utah...Grand County, Utah. Page FIGURE 1. Map showing location of Yellow Cat area, Thompson district, Grand...Grand County, Utah_______________________ 5 2, 3. Distribution of metals from ore to ground surface in openpit...openpit Parko 23-2 mine _______________________________ 18, 19 4. Selenium-uranium ratios in samples |  | | Journal (issue) | | Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John |  | | Report (issue) | | · as a joint program of the Manhattan Engineer District and its successor, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...the Central City district and adjoining areas, Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, ·Colorado, by Paul K. Sims...pitchblende deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W. Adams and Frederick Stugard...to pitchblende-bearing veins at Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, by George W. Walker and Frank W. Osterwald...of the Los Ochos uranium deposit, Saguache County, Colorado, by R. C. Derzay _·- _______ ____ __ __ _------------ |  | Northrop, H. Roy, Goldhaber, Martin B., Landis, Gary P., Unruh, John W., Reynolds, Richard L., Campbell, John A., Wanty, Richard B., Grauch, Richard I., Whitney, Gene, Rye, Robert O. (1990) Genesis of the tabular-type vanadium-uranium deposits of the Henry Basin, Utah. Economic Geology, 85 (2) 215-269 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.85.2.215 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pore-fillingcement.Someof thiscementis intergrownwith coffinite,suggesting that these phasesformedcontemporaneously...odies in sandstonesof the Salt Wash Member in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and in the Westwater Canyonand...followingdistricts:(1) MonumentValley-WhiteCanyon, (2) Uravan,(3) Grants(after Nashet al., 1981; asmodifiedfromFischer...preciseyet areallyvery broad phases--particularly coffinite and dolomite. This scale site of ore localization...conditions of formation of the U +4 silicate coffinite(nominallyUSiO4).Our interestin thisphase stems |
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