‡Ref.: Witkind, I.J. & R.E. Thaden (1963), Geology of uranium-vanadium deposits of the Monument Valley area Apache & Navajo Cos., AZ, USGS Bull. 1103: 136; Chester, US Atomic Energy Comm. USAEC RMO 801; Peirce, H.W., S.B. Keith and J. C. Wilt (1970), Coal, oil, natural gas, helium, and uranium in Arizona, AZ Bur. Mines Bull. 182: 215; USGS crib file #W016166.
A Cu-U deposit located near the crest of Agathla anticline in sec. 10, T.40N., R.21E. Discovered in 1948.
Mineralization is small cracks in the uppermost strata of the Moenkopi formation in many places around the mesa. The deposit is a replacement deposit and the orebody is channel fill hosted in the Moenkopi formation, the Upper Member of the Dripping Spring quartzite, and the Organ Rock Tongue of the Cutler formation.
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