| | 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 | | | 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 (issue) | = 13.56(2) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Colorado Plateau, USA. 12.3 (s), 10.0 (s), 9.3 (ms), 2.61 (m)...47 12.22 24.43 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Peanut mine, Colorado, USA; total V and V2 O4 determined directly...fracture surfaces and replacing fossil wood in Colorado Plateau-type U–V deposits; likely widely distributed...metatyuyamunite, melanovanadite (Colorado Plateau, USA); pascoite, pyrite, copper, gypsum, patrónite, melanovanadite...the USA, in Colorado, from the Peanut and Jo Dandy mines, Bull Canyon district, Uravan district, Montrose | | | 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...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________...of the uranium deposit at the Happy Jack mine, San Juan County, Utah, by Albert F. Trites, Jr., Randall | | | Report (issue) | coal and pyritic ores. Association: corvusite. Pyrite, ferroselite, zippeite, metatyuyamunite, metarossite...montroseite, Distribution: In the USA, from the United Verde mine, Jerome, Yavapai Co., Arizona; at a...the Colorado Plateau, as in the Peanut mine, Bull Canyon, Uravan district, Montrose Co., Colorado, and...the Parco No. 23 mine, Thompsons district, Grand Co., Utah. From the Road Hog No. 1A mine, Black Hills,...Mopung Hills, Churchill Co., and the Gold Quarry mine, near Carlin, Eureka Co., Nevada; in uranium mines | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | systems as applied to the interpretation of the Colorado Plateau ore deposits* H. T. EVAXS. Jr. and R....concentrwt.ion in the sandstone in the presenrr of pyrite; an d t,he other occurs in more basic conditions...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 | | | Report (issue) | (Minasragra, Peru); in Colorado Plateau-type U–V deposits. Association: Pascoite, pyrite, copper, gypsum, patrónite...sherwoodite (Minasragra, Peru); duttonite (Peanut mine, Colorado, USA). Distribution: At Minasragra, 46 km...km from Cerro de Pasco, Peru. In the USA, in the Mesa No. 1, Mesa No. 5, and Kerr-McGee 4-1 mines, Lukachukai...Jackpile mine, Valencia Co., New Mexico; the Jo Dandy, Bitter Creek, and Peanut mines, Uravan district, Montrose...Garfield mines, Garfield Co., Colorado; and the Juniper mine, Thompsons district, Grand Co., Utah. Name: | | | 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 | | | 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 | | 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). | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Mobility of uranium with ground water in near surface...initially to oxidation of magnetite, ilmenite, pyrite, and carbonaceous substances 139 and variations...eolean, marine, and fluvial sandstones of the Colorado Plateau. His study demonstrated that primary sedimentation...,¢ <,.~ I i-o I Apexof o\ 1 i o O lo~!~Uravan ,) , Alluvial ~ ~on /o / o ;~ ,,oo I%o~ ...EAST [ I Fig. 3. Sketch map of the Uravan mineral belt, Colorado showing the western edge of the basin | | Kampf, Anthony R., Cooper, Mark A., Hughes, John M., Nash, Barbara P., Hawthorne, Frank C., Marty, Joe (2020) Caseyite, a new mineral containing a variant of the flat-Al13 polyoxometalate cation. American Mineralogist, 105 (1) 123-131 doi:10.2138/am-2020-7181 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A. 2 Department...(IMA 2019-002) occurring in low-temperature, post-mining, secondary mineral assemblages at the Burro, Packrat...Packrat, and West Sunday mines in the Uravan Mineral Belt of Colorado, U.S.A. Crystals of caseyite are yellow... crystal structure, Packrat mine, Burro mine, West Sunday mine, Colorado Introduction Millions of synthetic...units in minerals. Deposits in the Uravan Mineral Belt of Colorado and Utah have been a rich source of | | | Report (volume) | sulfur in the lattices of sulfide minerals, such as pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, marcasite, and...deposits in the Silver City district, Idaho; Comstock Lode and Jarbidge district, Nev.; and Guanajuato, Mexico...with gold and silver are found in the Republic district, Wash., and in Radjang Lebong, Sumatra. The seleniferous...Nev.; San Francisco district, Utah; and the Liberty Bell mine, Telluride district, Colo., all contain...Buckskin Peak, Nev.; the Abbott mine, Calif.; the Lucky Boy mine, Piute County, Utah; and at Guadalcazar, | | | 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) | 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 | | | 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 | | | Report (volume) | sandstonetype uranium deposits: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1162-C, p. C1-C33, 1963" is accompanied by an annotation...deposits near Lake Sanford, Esse"!{ County, New York: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 940-D, p. 99-123, 1943" is not...mineralogic occurrences of base-metal vanadates, and the Colorado Plateau region, where vanadium-uranium deposits...countries, and major geographic units, such as the Colorado Plateau region. "The Statesman's Yearbook," 19651966...-Petersbourg Bull., 6th ser. See Akad. Nauk USSR, Izv. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersbourg Bull. sci. [1st | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | with Coleman, R. G. Umohoite from the Lucky Mc Mine, Wyoming.. Arizona's Meteorite Crater. Past- ++J...(Guillemin). Auraria: The Story of a Georgia Gold-Mining Town (Coulter) ( B o o kR e v i e w ) . . . . ...and MacKenzie, 586 Experimental error in deter581 mining certain peak locations and distances between peaks...556 from the dini, Poindexter, Slawson). Lucky Mc Mine, Wyoming... 657 Diamond, a spectrographic study...Dodd, C. G., with Ray, S., and of a Georgia Gold-Mining Gault, H. R. The sepa.ration Town (Book Review) | | | 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_______________________________ | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | ....................................... Miami district, Arizona .......................................Rita, New Mexico ......................... Ely district, Nevada ........................................GeologicalSurvey. 319 320 GEORGE M. SCHWARTZ. pyrite;3. Sericitic andargillicalteration withquartzsubordinate;...simpleexampleof onekind of alterationbut eacfi district shows a dominanceof one or two of the above types...commercialgrade. In enriched depositsthe distribution of pyrite with respect to the alteration is of considerableimportance | | | 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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pitchblende-Pyrite ( ± Pb, Cu, Ag Sulfides) Type . . . . . . . . | | | Report (volume) | Distribution of Elements in Colorado Plateau Uranium Deposits A Preliminary Report GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Commission 1147-E Distribution of Elements in Colorado Plateau Uranium Deposits A Preliminary Report...*0 the Frenchy Incline deposit, San Miguel County, Colorado TNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...the Chinle Formation and other formations on the Colorado Plateau_______________________________________...FIGTTBE 1. Tectonic sketch map of part of the Colorado Plateau,_______ 2. Geochemically coherent elements | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | UO2(SiO4)l_x(OH)4x, montroseite,VO(OH), vanadium silicates,pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite,chalcocite, calcite,quartz...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... I II •[ -0,3 • -0.4 -0.5 and -'••==='•Montrose •'1 ; -0.6 S! -0. 0 2 4 6 7 pH 8 units | | | 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 (issue) | 41 73.75 9.84 100.00 (1) La Sal No. 2 mine, Colorado, USA; H2 O from loss on ignition, contains admixed...(2) USiO4 : (3) USiO4 ² 2H2 O: Occurrence: In Colorado Plateau-type black unoxidized U{V deposits, replacing...deposits. Association: matter. Uraninite, thorite, pyrite, marcasite, roscoelite, clay minerals, amorphous...the USA, in the La Sal No. 2 mine, Beaver Mesa, Gateway district, Mesa Co., and in the Peanut mine, Montrose...Montrose Co., Colorado; around the Jackpile and Crownpoint mines, Valencia Co., New Mexico; in the Mi |
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