 | | 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...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) | | 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 (issue) | | minerals, notably the torbernite group and tke carnotite group, dehydrate easily with resultant rise in...is present the solution will turn orange-red. Carnotite or tyuyamunite turns red-brown when a drop of...mineral turns red-brown it is a vanadate probably carnotite or tyuyamunite. This reaction is -immediate and...higher than that of the liquid, it is probably carnotite. 2. If the mineral has indices nearly equal or...Localities are listed by mine name and the mining district, as shown on a map by Shoemaker and Luedke |  | | 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...occurrences In the state, with cross-Indexes by county, host rock, and the special categoriesof "Front |  | | Report (issue) | | uranium-vanadium and copper deposits of the Lisbon Valley area, Utah-Colorado By Gordon W. Weir and Willard P. Puffett...Hermosa Formation in the northern part of the Moab district................................22 Regional stratigraphic...Regional stratigraphic relations............49 Glen Canyon Group................................51 Definition...system............................................58 San Rafael group.............................................................................82 Burro Canyon Formation................................82 Distribution |  | | 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...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 |  | | Report (volume) | | Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...Report ____________ ___._ Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey.... Utah Geological Society, Guidebook...Guidebook to the Geology of Utah __..______._.______ Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook Miscellaneous |  | | 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. _ ._...Cameron area . . Monument Valley (includes Copper Canyon, Hunts Mesa, Nokai Mesa, Hoskinninni Mesa and Monument...----------.---------Chuska Mountains, Red Rock district and Lukachukai Mountains areas (includes Mesa |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | northeast to Arizona on the southwest (Fig. 1). Most mining activity is con- Page Figure 12. Schematic diagram... 1096 17. Structural pattern, southern San Rafael Swell, Utah 1098 18. Hot-springs deposition along Nacimiento...pipe, Woodrow Mine 1103 27. Orphan Mine, Grand Canyon, Arizona... 1101 28. Circular collapse and a collapse...Silicification and alteration, Temple Mountain, Utah 1086 2. Dolomite, San Rafael Swell 1086 3. Uranium-bearing...and faults found in igneous rocks as at Marysvale, Utah (Kerr et al., 1957), where hydrothermal solutions |  | | Report (volume) | | Altered Rocks And Ore Deposits of The San Rafael Swell Emery County, Utah By C. C. HAWLEY, R. C. ROBECK, and...ssic and Jurassic Glen Canyon Group__________-__-___-_---__ Post-Glen Canyon rocks_____________-____...Mountain area________________________________--__Reds Canyon and vicinity________________________.___.___-North..._______________________ Altered rocks hi the Glen Canyon Group.__________- m 1 5 7 7 9 10 10 11 11 14...Dirty Devil group of mines_____________________ Lucky Strike mine_____________________________ 95 96 96 |  | | Report (volume) | | ____ __ __ __________ __ ___ 125 125 History of mining and production ____ ------------------------------Geologic...belt_-----------------------------------East ·white Canyon belt____________________________________ ~[oab...vanadium, copper, and radium during various periods of mining in the past 50 years. Most of the deposits in Triassic...Triassic unconformity. In northeastern Arizona, eastern Utah, and western Colorado three mineral belts have been...formation, are the Monument Valley belt, the east White Canyon belt, and the Moab belt. The chief unoxidized uranium |  | | Report (volume) | | Uranium Resources of the San Rafael District Emery County, Utah a Regional Synthesis GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...1046-D, Uranium resources of the San Rafael district, Emery County, Utah, by H. S. Johnson, plate 2. The...276r Uranium Resources of the San Rafael District Emery County, Utah a Regional Synthesis By H. S. JOHNSON...ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 2. Map of San Rafael district, Emery County, Utah, showing uranium deposits and ground...FIGURE 12. Index map of part of Utah showing location of the San Rafael district and adjacent districts___ |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...14 mi. on US 16 to Tepee Canyon, diggings on N of hwy. Extending up canyonagate, Beryl, Almandite garnets |  | | Report (volume) | | location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...__________ Beidellite______ _,______________ Carnotite ________ ·-----------Cebollite______________________...documented summary of the beginning of Colorado mining history. Part of his summary is given here in the...had been recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed...however, because it contains lists of the mines and mining districts that were active at the time in Clear |  | | Report (issue) | | Deposits of the La Sal Quadrangle San Juan County, Utah, and Montrose County, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of the La Sal Quadrangle San Juan County, Utah, and Montrose County, Colorado By WILLIAM D. CARTER...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) | | of the San Francisco volcanic center, and the Cameron ore bodies to the northeast; (3) in Utah, arcuate...Sal igneous center, and in Colorado, the Uravan district encircles the center on the east. Distribution...west prong extends northward through Marysvale, Utah, into Idaho. Related deposits occur in the Boulder...accompanying chemical changes. Caribou Mine, Boulder County, Colorado Among the Front Range veins, the alteration...vein. Central City District, Gilpin County, Colorado The Central City district in the heart of the Front |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minedsincethe early nineteenhundreds. During theseearly mining operationsrelativelylittle attentionwaspaidto the...literature (1).2 Throughoutnearly fifty yearsof mining,the mineraluraninitewent unnoticed. Early operations...discoveries were madealmostsimultaneously in White Canyon, Utah (2), Placerville,Colorado(3), andGrants,New...Creek, Colo. Yellow Cat District, Utah Corvusitc mine, Beaver Creek Mesa, Utah Grants, N. Mex., Several...Placerville, Colo. 6. Shinarump mines, Seven Mile Canyon, Utah 7. Hosteen Nez, Tuba City, Ariz. Dolores (Chinle) |  | | Book | | Gilbert Gautier; Eric Greene, Treasure Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes, Minerals America; Shelley and Dan...following statistical "snapshot" of worldwide uranium mining activities and reserves, representing data that...deposit. These methods include underground mining, open-pit mining, in situ leaching (ISL), heap leaching...and extraction as a co-product or by-product of mining for another metal. Reasonably Assured Resources...Product ion Method < $40/ kgU Open-pit mining 231 ,500 Underground mining 439,600 358,400 In situ leaching |  | | Report (issue) | | Acknowledgments__ _ __________________________ History of mining and ore production _________________ Geologic setting...____ Yeso Formation and Glorieta Sandstone_____ San Andres Limestone_____________________ Bernal Formation..._________________________ West and south sides of the San Juan Basin. Shinarump Member_______________ Lower red...Sonsela Sandstone Bed.___________ East side of the San Juan Basin __________ Agua Zarca Sandstone Member and...Recapture Member. ____________________ Westwater Canyon Member. ____________ Brushy Basin Member_ _________________ |  | | Book | | of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in Wyo1ning. These figures...doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the... Ca Na 2 Uranospinite. . . . . . . . . . . Carnotite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tyuyamunite.. . ....I{ahlerite Abernathyite Troegerite Walpurgite Carnotite Tyuya1nunite Soddyite• Uranophane • Beta-tnanophane...replacements in the uranyl minerals include: Ba for K, carnotite; Ba for Ca, tyuyamunite; Cu for Ca, autunite; |  | | Book | | is a fue l for reactors to produce electricity, mining operati ons. Robert Lau f presents here a highly...structures in three dimensions for a richer Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes and Michael Jacob, appreciation...Czech Republic) and elsewhere in the Erzgebirge district. Those n1ines had been \VOrked for silver and...Unspecified 0 0 33, l 00 84,l 00 313,800 mining method TotaJ 493,900 2,014,800 3,455,500 4...production feeding one operational mill, White Mesa, Utah. ln 2011, there were five ISL facilities in production |  | | Report (issue) | | N TriL SILVER REEF ULSTRICT V/AShlKGTON COUI.TI, UTAH Frederick Stugard, Jr. n U. S* Geological Survey...plat of patented claims, sheet 2, Harrisburg mining district, as supplied by Cadastral Engineer, U.S. Dept...LOCATIONS OF DRILL HOLES,SILVER REEF DISTRICT, WASHINGTON COUNTY, UTAH. __oec.u T. 4IS..R.I4W. UNITED STATES...government exploration program. oooo.. 00 oooo Mining since 1951 0 ...................... 16 17 17 21...government exploration program0 oooo.. 80 ooo 0 Lucky Strike claims 0 0 0 0 o o 0 » o 0 o o . ....... o - |  | | Report (volume) | | ------- ____ ---------- ____________________ _ Carnotite _______________________ -------- __ ------------------..._____ ---------------------------------- _ 18. Carnotite. A, B. Typical habit -----------------------------------19...Cornwall. They were later supplemented by the ·carnotite deposits of the Colorado Plateau, discovered in...Ferghana and the autunite deposits of Portugal. The carnotite mines of the Colorado Plateau became almost wholly...development of the rich uranium ores of the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection. An ideal and...titled “The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...under the district name. District names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite...Buttes: see The Buttes. Centennial (La Plata) gold district, 27 miles W of Laramie on State 130 to Centennial |  | | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES IN THE SILVER REEF (HARRISBURG) DISTRICT, WASHINGTON COUNTY, UTAH Frederick Stugard, Jr. January 1951...southwestern Utah ........ 2. Pumpkin Point and Tecumseh Hill, Silver Reef District, Washington County, Utah...section of the Harrisburg (Silver Reef) district, Washington County, Utah, by Paul Dean Proctor, June 1943....and sections of the Silver Reef mining area, Washington County, Utah, by Paul Dean Proctor, June 1948...uranium prospects in the Silver Reef district, Washington County, Utah ........... 11, 12, 13 Analyses |
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