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Pitchblende from
McKinley County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Uraninite var: Pitchblende
Formula:UO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pitchblende data
Locality Data:Click here to view McKinley County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:125076
Long-form Identifier:1:3:125076:3
GUID (UUID V4):f8d6bb92-5b0a-4cc3-8917-8b14c7086e18
Localities for Pitchblende in this Region
Haystack Mine, Ambrosia Lake subdistrict, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA
Section 18 deposit, Ambrosia Lake subdistrict, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA
Section 23 deposit, Ambrosia Lake subdistrict, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA
Section 25 Mine, Ambrosia Lake subdistrict, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA
Section 26 Mine [10014548], Ambrosia Lake subdistrict, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE UNITED STATES PART 1: ARIZONA, NEVADA, AND NEW MEXICO By MAHGARET COOPEB CONTENTS Page Page 1. Foreword...for Arizona, 2. Bibliography 197 Nevada, and New Mexico 208 3. Index I. Gazetteer for Arizona, Nevada... Subject index for Arizona, NeNew Mexico 205 vada, and New Mexico 222 FOREWORD The following bibliography...radioactive occurrences in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. It represents the first section of a comprehensive...checking have been cited. The remaining old and new references will be added to this basic list when
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGISTS Ăź NOVEMBER, 1961 SANDSTONE-TYPE NEW URANIUM MEXICO--AN No. 7 DEPOSITS AT AMBROSIA LAKE, INTERIM...The Ambrosia Lake district in northwestern New Mexico is the most important uranium mining and milling...the United States is in McKinley and Valencia Countiesof northwesternNew Mexico. The Ambrosia Lake district...COLORADO NEW MEXICO TEXAS MEXICO FIG. 1. Index map showingthe AmbrosiaLake district,New Mexico. Morrisonformation...Darton's (2) reconnaissance of parts of northwestern New Mexico and Hunt's (13) report on the Mount Taylor coalfield
Report (issue)
INDEX FOR THE NAVAJO INDIAN RESERVATION ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, AND UTAH by James D. Bliss U.S. Geological...continental sandstones of the Morrison Formation, New Mexico: IAEA, Formation of Uranium Ore Deposits, p....Anderson, E.G., 1955, Occurrences of uranium ores in New Mexico: Bur. Mines Miner. Resour. Circ. 29, 39p. Anonymous...N.M. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol, Arnold, E.G., 1980, New Mexico's energy resources '79: Miner. Resour. Ann...engineering, New York, Pergamon Press, v. "27 p. 338. Austin, S.R., 1960, Alteration at Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico:
Report (issue)
264 GEOBOTANICAL RECONNAISSANCE NEAR GRANTS, NEW MEXICO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...264 GEOBOTANICAL RECONNAISSANCE NEAR GRANTS, NEW MEXICO By Helen L. Cannon This report concerns work... GEOBOTANICAL RECONNaiSSANCE NEAR GRANTS, NEW MEXICO By Helen L. Cannon CONTENTS Page Page Abstract...Page Figure 1. Geologic map of Grants district, New Mexico, showing areas investigated . • . • . • . • ...the Todilto limestone member. . . . . . 4 McKinley County, N. Mex. Large amounts of uranium are absorbed
Report (issue)
Butte, Mont. D-Public Inquiries Office, Room 468, New Customhouse, Denver, Colo. GJ ·Geological Survey...map, Stinking Spring Creek-13 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah: TEM-397, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, D, GJ. -~=--...map, Stinking Spring Creek-14 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah: TEM-394, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, D, GJ. Becraft...Comet area, Jefferson City quadrangle, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEI-282, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, W, B. Cathcart...quadrangle, Navajo Indian Reservation, San Juan County, Utah: TEM-414, Oct. 27, 1952. D, GJ, SL. _ _ _
Report (volume)
Butte, Mont. D Geological Survey office, Room 468 New Customhouse, Denver, Colo. DA Atomic Energy Commission... 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah: TEI-287, Jan. 11, 1954. GJ, SL. Fischer...exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953. D, GJ. Hinrichs...The pegmatites of the Errington-Thiel mine, Elko County, Nevada: TEI-71, Dec. 28, 1949. Office of Director...Ridge, and West End claims near Clancy, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEM-31, Oct. 19, 1951. D, SL, T. (332,
Report (issue)
Sketch showing structural characteristics of pitchblende-bearing veinlets between footwall and hanging...Cross section through Crooks Gap area, Fremont County, Wyo__ __________-______-___--_--__------------_..._.-_________----_60. Marysvale district, Piute County, Utah, showing relation of mine area to regional...intersect, a cylindrical ore body may develop. The pitchblende veinlet in a late fracture along the footwall...East Calhoun mine, Central City district, Gilpin County, Colo., apparently is in a thickened part of the
Book
Originally published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York in 1993 Softcover reprint oftbe hardcover 1st...Eastern Block countries during 1990 and 1991 provided new and more precise information of uranium deposits...Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Coste A. (Limousin, France), Cuney M. (granites...Grauch R (western USA), Gautier A. (breccia pipe deposits, USA), Halladay Ch.R (eastern USA), Harshman E.N...N. (Wyoming Basins, USA), Hruby J. (CSFR), Kolb S. (Bavaria, W-Germany), Krol W. (Eastern Europe), Matos
Thesis/Dissertation
OF URANIUM MINERALS IN THE GRANTS MINERAL BELT, NEW MÉXICO: APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY AND THE DEVELOPMENT...Exploration New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Department of Mineral Engineering Socorro, New Mexico... ABSTRACT The Grants Mineral Belt of northwestern New Mexico was mined from the 1940s to the late 1980s, with...Belt, Uranium, X-Ray Diffraction, McKinley County, Valencia County, Oxyanions, Groundwater, Leaching...below. Thank you, Bonnie Frey and New Mexico EPSCoR, “Energize New Mexico” for providing funding for this
Report (issue)
Laboratory) Vincent C. Kelley (University of New Mexico) Paul F. Kerr (Columbia University) W. Scott...Everhart___________ _____ ___ ____________________ ___ _ Pitchblende deposits in the Central City district and adjoining...wall-rock control of certain pitchblende deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W...secondary uranium minerals to pitchblende-bearing veins at Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, by George W. Walker...Geology of the Los Ochos uranium deposit, Saguache County, Colorado, by R. C. Derzay _·- _______ ____ __
Report (issue)
* Radioactive Deposits < in New Mexico GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report concerns work done on...DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO COMPILED BY T. G. LOVERING ABSTRACT Forty-five areas of radioactivity in New Mexico...parts of the State. The deposits in northwestern New Mexico seem to be the most promising for the mining...mining of uranium ore. In western San Juan County, on the eastern flanks of the Carrizo Mountains uplift, carnotite...southern rim of the San Juan Basin in Valencia and McKinley Counties, carnotite is widely disseminated in
Report (volume)
Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade pitchblende concentrates were produced (Moore and Kithil...No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico. Since World War II large uranium-bearing vein...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as...90, no. 8, p. 153-177. Merritt, P. L., 1949, Pitchblende, the primary source of uranium: Michigan Coll...and thorium, p. 94-128. Merritt, P. L., 1949, Pitchblende, the primary source of uranium: Michigan Coll
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sample collected from the Mineral Joe mine, Montrose County, Colorado, and are fully described by GARRELSand...Coffinite, WVoodrow Pipe mine, Kew Mexico Cofhnite, Poison Canyon mine, New nrexico Oxidized ore, black, J...and GS-87 are from the Happy Jack mine, San Juan County, Utah. The mine is in the Shinarump member of the...VO(OH), is also present Mi Vida mine, San Juan County, Utah. Montroseite, in the sample. Sample AE-1260...Woodrow Pipe mine near Laguna, Valencia, County, New Mexico. The mine is in the Morrison formation of
Report (issue)
INDEX FOR THE NAVAJO INDIAN RESERVATION ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, AND UTAH by James D. Bliss U.S.. Geological...index for the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey OpenFile Report...index for the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report...index for the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report...for the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, Mew Mexico and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
Report (volume)
Bibliography of Geology and Hydrology, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Colorado* Arizona, and Utah Bibliography... Bibliography of Geology and Hydrology, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah By ANN FINLEY WRIGHT...Bibliography of geology and hydrology, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. (Geological Survey...ILLUSTRATIONS FIGURE 1. Location map of San Juan Basin in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah ..................OF THE GEOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY, SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, ARIZONA, AND UTAH By ANN FINLEY WRIGHT
Report (issue)
Geologic map of uranium deposits in northwestern New Mexico. Generalized correlation chart of the principal...principal stratigraphic units in northwestern New Mexico. Isopach map, sample localities, and the uranium deposits...16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Index map of northwestern New Mexico __ ______________________-_-_--___--------_-------__-______...northwestern New Mexico. __________________________ Simplified tectonic map of northwestern New Mexico. ____...Northwestern New Mexico___--_--______________-_--__--_--__--_--_-----------------------2. Northwestern New Mexico
Report (issue)
black, gray, and brown uranium ore minerals, pitchblende and uraninite, occur either in extensive bedded...lignite fields Permian and Triassic basins (in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma) Devonian marine black shale...Lignite I/ 21 3/ I/ II 5 Southern Rockies New Mexico (vein) I/ l! If - - 0.02 0.3 0.3 0.02... 1.3 0 2J I/ I/ IV II 11 5,10 Eastern New Mexico, west Texas, and Oklahoma Northern Rockies and...Highlands VI 14 Precambrian Shield area (Wisconsin, New York, Michigan) Totals (rounded) ' Reported as less
Report (issue)
Australia.......................................... New Zeal and...........................................minerals (pitchblende and uraninite) occur either in extensive bedded deposits of pitchblende in sedimentary...of Eastern Europe, China, and the U.S.S.R. Many new important discoveries are not included. Some small...precipitation of uranium (e.g., southern San Juan Basin, New Mexico). Squyres (1972) proposed that humic acids were...essential factors are favorable for exploration to find new sandstone ores. The deposition of uranium, molybdenum
Report (volume)
Lincoln County, Nev.... Lander County, Nev.. ...... . Virgin Valley opal district........ Lyon County, Nev............... Tonopah area, Esmeralda County, Nev. Clark County, Nev.---------- . Olancha, Calif. _ ._...Pumpkin Buttes area, Powder River Basin.. Converse County (Powder River Basin)- _, Lance Creek area --- -...____ . Osage County, Okla. ..__._._ _ . Pawnee County, Okla. ____-..-____ __ Noble County, Okla. ...___________-...___________-.Payne County, Okla. ____.-._.. Tillman County, Okla.-__-__________ Cotton County, Okla. .. .-
Report (issue)
the Section 23 mine, Ambrosia lake district, New Mexico By H. C. Granger and E. S. Santos Open-File... ILLUSTRATIONS Page Figure 1. Map of northwestern New Mexico showing the location of the Grants mineral belt...Ambrosia Lake uranium district, in northwestern New Mexico, constitutes a significant portion of the Grants...descriptions of several mines in the district appear in New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir...Grants mineral belt Figure 1. Map of northwestern New Mexico showing the location of the Grants mineral belt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SANDSTONE-TYPE DEPOSITS OF THE DISTRICT, NEW AMBROSIA MEXICO LAKE • J. R. DOOLEY, JR., H. C. GRANGER...onefrom the Ambrosia Lake district, McKinley County, New Mexico. U TM, U •'aS,and U •'• were measuredby...AmbrosiaLake mining districtis in northwestNew Mexico near the southwesternboundaryof the ColoradoPlateau...uranium depositsof the Ambrosia Lake district, New Mexico. In Figs. 1-5 the sectionis diagrammaticallyillustrated...Standardsreferencesampleof Republicof Congo pitchblende(reference)whichis believedto be in secularequilibrium
Report (issue)
URANIUM IN THE SAN JUAN BASIN AND ADJACENT 'REGION, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, UTAH & COLORADO I , J.L. Ridgley...URANIUM IN THE SAN JUAN BASIN AND ADJACENT REGION, NEW MEXICO, 'V'R.0 t ~.-4~ . GICAL SURVEY p.· ..... P•...Basin and adjacent region, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah 2. Preliminary map showing principal...URANIUM IN THE SAN JUAN BASIN AND ADJACENT REGION, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, UTAH, AND COLORADO By Jennie L. Ridgley...predominantly the uranium-rich Colorado Plateau of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. Precambrian lie
Report (volume)
Marquette County, Michigan, by R. C. Vickers. --(G) Wall-rock control of certain pitchblende deposits...deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W. Adams and Frederick Stugard, Jr_________________________...uranium deposits in the Red Desert, SweBtwater County, Wyoming, by Donald G. Wyant, William N. Sharp...the Morrison formation in part of northwestern New Mexico, by V. L. Freeman and L. S. Hilpert. (K) Uranium...in oolitic limestone near I /Tayoworth, Johnson County, Wyoming, by R. R. Guilinger and P. K. Theobald
Book
of 0.27% U3D8 by mid-1957, of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pitchblende-Pyrite ( ± Pb, Cu, Ag Sulfides) Type . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Siliceous Pitchblende-SuIBde Veins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . ' . ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mexico ........ . . .. ...... ... ...... . ..... . ..... . . . . .. . .... . . . . . . .... ....... . . New Zealand . ............ . . . . . .... .. ... . .
Report (volume)
630 Sansome Street, San Francisco, Calif.; 468 New Customhouse, Denver, Colo.; 602 Thomas Building,...Geological Survey Public Inquiries Office, Room 468, New Customhouse, Denver, Colo. CDA U.S. Atomic Energy...University, Tallahassee, Fla. FLU U.S. Geological Survey, New Dining Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. Mex. NMM New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico...COLORADO Denver, Denver Public Library CONNECTICUT New Haven, Yale University Library DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
 
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