 | | Book | | - [ URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN...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...BEAVER AND POLAR MESAS LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS...THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER REGION RICHARDSON-DEWEY AREA LOWER KANE SPRINGS AREA INDIAN CREEK REGION DRY VALLEY |  | | Report (issue) | | CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (volume) | | the Colorado Plateau is the center of the uranium mining industry in the United States, certain reports...Lincoln County, Nev.... Lander County, Nev.. ...... . Virgin Valley opal district........ Lyon County, Nev............... Tonopah area, Esmeralda County, Nev. Clark County, Nev.---------- . Olancha, Calif. _ ._...---------- ..... Taft-McKittrick area ---------Ridenour mine . .-. ._ ... Aguila area ..-.- ...................Valley (includes Copper Canyon, Hunts Mesa, Nokai Mesa, Hoskinninni Mesa and Monument No. 1, Monument No. |  | | Report (volume) | | periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll in the 1950 IS. Since I ts meager start...uranium-vanadium ores, prIncipally uranlnlte and carnotite, occur In sandstones of the Salt Wash Member of...Tallahassee Creek distrIct in Fremont County. Uranium, recoverable by solution mining of Upper Cretaceous...evaluated In Weld County. VBlntype uran I urn occurrence 5 are typ I fled in Je f farson County by the Schwartzwal...Schwartzwal der Mi ne, the largest uranium mine In Colorado. Part 2 contains in the bibliography of approximately |  | | Book (volume) | | instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...beds, etc. petrified wood, wood opal; along the Grand R. though entire Co., regional banks, breaks, gravels |  | | 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...faults, and outcrop of the Coconino Sandstone in the Grand Canyon area, Arizona ___ --------- ______ ---------...positions and shapes of sandstone pipes in the Grand Canyon area, Arizona ___________ -------------·...in 1874 at Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), Carbon County, Pa. ('Genth, 1875, p. 144B). In 1898 a deposit |  | | Journal (issue) | | through the Mojave desert to Inyo county, southern Nevada and southern Utah, and Arizona, on sandy mesas,...ranging into the desert areas of eastern San Diego county and on to the edge of the Colorado desert. Blooms...whitish, the lower ones dark blue or purple. In the Grand Canyon and adjacent regions the flowers are a lighter...celebration, Brigham City, Utah. Sept. 9-10—Tooele Tooele, Utah. County Fair, Sept. 15—Indian races...16-17-18—Yavapai County Fair, Prescott, Arizona. Sept. 18-25—Utah State Fair, Salt Lake City, Utah. CLOSE-UPS |  | | Journal (issue) | | that remains of what was once a flourishing little mining town which still appears on many Arizona maps as...called the Silverbell road. Silverbell was a copper mining camp. The hills around it were honeycombed with...shack to liv%,*in and a chance to live — a gold mining town — a golden opportunity perhaps. Your editor...of wood there is nothing to indicate a thriving mining town once was located there. KENT YARNELL The...privately owned since early in the century. This mining operation might seem a little less objectionable |  | | Report (volume) | | Circle Cliffs Area, Garfield and Kane Counties, Utah By E. S. DAVIDSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN..._______--__ Mesa prospect________________________________________________ Yellow Jacket prospect..__...__________________________________________ Rainy Day mine and Rocky Mountain Co. prospects ______________...Shinarump Member of the Chinle For18. Map of Yellow Jacket prospect19. Map of Betty Jack prospect.__ 20...Stud Horse prospect.. __-_----_-----------_ 5. Yellow Jacket prospect------...-----------6. Hotshot prospect |  | | Report (volume) | | rani urn in the Circle Cliffs Area Garfield County, Utah By FRANK J. KLEINHAMPL and CARL KOTEFF BOTANICAL...Geologic map of the Circle Cliffs area, Garfield County, Utah, with added botanical prospecting information__________...URANIUM IN THE CIRCLE CLIFFS AREA, GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH By FRANK J. KLElNHAMPL and CARL KOTEFF ...uranium in the Circle Cliffs area, Garfield County, Utah (see index n1ap on plate 7) .. The area was...Plateaus province, lies mostly in Garfield County, southcentral Utah (see index map on plate 7). The area is |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah...................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Report (issue) | | Copies of this report can be purchased from: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey Box 25046, Mail Stop...through 1989. These publications are indexed by county, technical content, geohydrologic unit, and selected...are referenced in indented sub-indexes under county, descriptor, and geohydrologic-unit entries in...Management, Craig District Office 455 Emerson St. Craig, CO 81625 (303) 824-8261 District Geologist Water...data: P Craig district (Craig-KremmlingMeeker area). U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Grand Junction District |  | | Report (issue) | | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH VOL. X DECEMBER. 1919 NO. 11 I~ E THE I MINERAL INDUSTRY OF UTAH I ! ! ~ ~ §§...VARLEY ~ i I ~ ~ ~ ~ == ~ I ~ ~ LETIN No. 12 Utah En.,i,."en. Department of III eta//urgicaJ Research...~ I I! ~ PUBLISHED BY THE ;== JNIVERSITY OF UTAH. STATE SCHOOL OF MINES S !liE I In Co-operation...CENTURY~PRJNTlNG I ) ./ Utah Engineering Experilllent Station The Utah Engineering Experiment Station...Mines, the engineering college of the University of Utah. The station is authorized "to carryon experiments |  | | Report (issue) | | Acknowledgments__ _ __________________________ History of mining and ore production _________________ Geologic setting...Formation, __________-_-_-__--_-_Ambrosia Lake district. _________________ Stratigraphy. ________--_--_------_Structure-...-Color relations of the host rocks. _____ Laguna district..-..--.-.--------------Stratigraphy- _______-...Continued Morrison Formation Continued Laguna district Continued Structural relations of the deposits...Color relations of the host rocks _ _____ Gallup district. _________________________ Stratigraphy. ..___________---__-____ |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE BASIN AND...USGS MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE OF OREGON The mining districts...mercury districts are: the Steens-Pueblo district (Harney County) where mercury is found in fissure zones...kaolinized rhyolite; the Quartz Mountain district (Lake County) where opalite with alunite deposits occur...occur in rhyolite and tuff; the Opalite district (Malheur County) where opalite is disseminated in Miocene |  | | Journal (issue) | | dance festival, Globe, Arizona. Nov. 11-12-13—Clark County Gem Collectors Mineral and Gem show, U. S. Naval...Arizona. Nov. 12-16-—Ogden Livestock show, Ogden, Utah. Nov. 22—Season opens for hunting bear in New Mexico...CALENDAR November events on the desert TRAVEL New Gateway to Death Valley By PAT and GEORGE STURTEVANT WILDLIFE...Jewels of Bagdad By HAROLD O. WEIGHT 19 Days on Utah Trails 13 EXPLORATION By RANDALL HENDERSON POETRY...poems 26 PHOTOGRAPHY Contest winners in September MINING Current news of desert mines LETTERS Comment by |  | | Book (edition) | | Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | secondary phosphate minerals. Although some pegmatite mining for feldspar still continues (Jacobson 1994). the...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in...and fewer chances to obtain any. However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl...and additions. Mlneral Index by Counties Brule County Elm Creek, IS mi. S. of Chamberlain, near junction |  | | Report (volume) | | SALT VALLEY ANTICLINE AND ADJACENT AREAS GRAND COUNTY, UTAH BY C. H. DANE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Buttefolds__:-----------_-------_---_--__---_--Yellow Cat dome.-.---------------__--__-___--_____..._...4. A, La Sal Mountains, from the south end of Polar Mesa; B, View up the canyon of the Colorado River...the Dolores River from a point a few miles above Gateway, Colo. 10. A, Photomicrograph of Wingate sandstone;...from a point about 3 miles west of the Colorado-Utah state line.______________________________ 18. A |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...the “famous locality” series: the Home Sweet Home mine and Mount Antero. A fine mineralogical study of...you belong to, and where you come from. American mining schools and professional organizations have long... centering on some of the nostalgic aspects of mining in Arizona and beautifully illustrated with paintings...“Missing and presumed lost” by the wellknown lost-mine author Kearney Egerton; “El Dorado’s children” by |  | | Book (edition) | | ave towacc cy } | MESA VERDE. | ‘ BONDAD ie TO i ab LEADVILLE# 5b e JCT. “GRAND IS VD eso DILLON)...METROPOLITAN Fort CoL.ins ee AREA 153 158 163 168 GraND JUNCTION GREELEY LEADVILLE PUEBLO TRINIDAD 179...Georgetown — Loveland Pass — Glenwood Springs— Grand Junction — (Thompsons, [US 6] ST Ve eee Section...Nebraska Line to Denver 198 Section b. Denver to Utah Line Tour 1A _— (North Platte, Tour 2 Tour...Pass—Mount of the Holy Cross—Glenwood Springs—Rifle—Grand Junction [US 24] oul, ret 5S Te Section a. Kansas | | | Book (edition) | | Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART |  | | Report (issue) | | s | of the Coal Area 9 \ of South-Central Utah it 12 Cory-iled by -'- i K. A. Sargent and...sections on Landslide Hazards by Roger B. Colton, Coal-Mine Subsidence by C. Richard Dunrud, and Landscape Geochemistry...hazards, by Roger B. Colton 81 9.12G7 Page Coal-mine subsidence, by C 0 Richard Dunrud- 83 General...of topography and geology - 89 . Effects of mining - 93 | Summary- - 97 - - .Landscape geochemistry...southcentral Utah 2o e { I 7 a j i - Structure map of the coal area of south-central Utah- - - in |  | | Report (volume) | | the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson... Landform interpretation, stereoSearch for new mining districts: Nolan, T. B., 1. pairs: Powers, W. E...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...limestone: Lamar, Shotts, R. C., 5. J. E., 11. Gold, mining districts: Pallister, Trace elements and potash...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite |  | | Report (volume) | | FIELDS OF NORTHWESTERN COLORADO AND NORTHEASTERN UTAH BY HOYT S. GALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...................... 16 16 Danforth Hills and Grand Hogback map........................ 17 Original...Plateau.............................................. Grand Hogback...................................................................................... 38 Grand River....................................................................................... The Grand Hogback........................................ |
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