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Carnotite from
Cactus Rat Mine, The Poison Strip, Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Carnotite
Formula:K2(UO2)2(VO4)2 · 3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sabugalite2 photos of Carnotite associated with Sabugalite at this locality.
Threadgoldite2 photos of Carnotite associated with Threadgoldite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Carnotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cactus Rat Mine, The Poison Strip, Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:183333
Long-form Identifier:1:3:183333:1
GUID (UUID V4):f2ef2d37-6e49-4b54-b624-838ef63b0e74
Nearest other occurrences of Carnotite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Mineral Treasure, Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Unnamed U mine [1], Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Windy Point (Juniper Group), Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Little Pittsburg Mine, Yellow Cat Mesa, Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Paris No. 25 Mine, Yellow Cat Mesa, Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) AEC No. 2, AEC Group, Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Blackstone Incline, The Poison Strip, Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Flat Top no. 1 claim (Sandman), Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Unnamed U-V mine [4], Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Black Jack, Thompsons Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Occurrence of Uranium and Vanadium Minerals From the Colorado Plateaus GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1009-B...OCCURRENCE OF URANIUM AND VANADIUM MINERALS FROM THE COLORADO PLATEAUS By A. D. WEEKS and M. E. THOMPSON...investigations by the Geological Survey on identification and occurrence of uranium minerals of the Colorado Plateaus...Plateaus, contains descriptions of the physical properties, X-ray data, and in some instances results...mines from which the minerals have been identified. INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The 48 uranium and
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)
Related Soils and Vegetation in the Yellow Cat Area Grand County, Utah B'Y HELEN L. CANNON GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1176 Prepared on behalf of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Thomas B. Nolan, Director The U.S....this publication appears after index. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing...pies_ ___ ________ ____ ___ Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation____________________ Sandstones
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 48 OF THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA NOVEMBER.DECEMBER, 1963 Nos. 11and 12 THE OCCURRENCE...found in the Cactus Rat group of mines, 15 miles east southeast of Thompson, Grand County, Utah. It is...fractures and as interstitial filling in sandstone in the oxidized zone of a vanadiferous uranium deposit....a conglomeratic bed in the basal part of the Brushy Basin Shale Member of the Morrison Formation (Late...monoclinic symmetry with the b-axis parallel to the elongation. Optically the mineral is biaxial negative
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DIFFRACTION II. STUDIES OF SOX{E VANADIUM MINERALS OF THE COLORADO PLATEAUX nI.cr,cor,nrRoss, t/. S. GeologicalSumey...such patterns and a description of the crystal habit are given for the following minerals: hewettite (CaVoOro...andsimplotite (CaV4Os'sHeO). For many of these minerals the unit-cell data are new. Structural relations between...there are no unitcell data have been describedin the literature. Such minerals, particularly those which...crystal tr-ray diffraction analysis. On the other hand, the electron diffraction method is better suited
Book
URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN OVERVIEW...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...REGION DRY VALLEY DISTRICT COTTONWOOD AND BUTLER WASH AREAS MONTEZUMA CANYON DISTRICT SEVEN-MILE CANYON
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With Sparkling Gens oi RUTILE RAINBOW DIAMONDS Is the answer to your gift problem. One of these magnificent...worn and cherished for years to come. BUTILE IS THE GEM OF THf HOUR — IT IS NOW A REALITY After years...beauty. This magnificent substance has been given the name of "TITANIA". "TITANIA IS QUEEN OF ALL KNOWN...KNOWN GEMS" Titania gems have more fire than the diamond. Be the first in your community to own one of these...Our new SUPERCATALOG described below gives you all the facts about TITANIA GEMS and ILLUSTRATES mountings
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BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA VOL. 69. PP. 403-418, 6 FIGS.. 1 PL. APRIL 1968 URANIUM...UNDER CONGLOMERATIC SANDSTONE OF THE MORRISON FORMATION, COLORADO AND UTAH BY DAVID A. PHOENIX ABSTRACT In...and southeastern Utah, strata of conglomeratic sandstone are localized at the base of the Brushy Basin Member...Member of the Morrison Formation of Jurassic age. These discrete lithologic units contain sedimentary...one-third of the underlying Salt Wash Member in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, and they locally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
l{ational ResearchCouncil, Ottawa, Canoda. The investigation of the structures of "hewettite" and "metahewettite"...Mineral.,37r 409, 1952) has been hampered, not only by the poor quality of single crystals of these minerals...powder investigation has been undertaken. Briefly the procedure has been to take up crushed specimensin...take photographs at intervals until no change in the powder pattern was observed, on (b) store over PzOr...remove at intervals, seal,photograph, open the seal,restoreto the desiccator,and repeatuntil a constant pattern
Report (issue)
Z = n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Temple Rock, Utah, USA. 10.7 (10), 2.95 (5), 3.49 (4), 2.62 (3), 3.87...Temple Rock, Utah, USA; recalculated after deduction of 27.06% impurities. (2) Monument No. 2 mine, Arizona...Arizona, USA. (3) Ca(UO2 )2 V10 O28 • 16H2 O. Occurrence: An uncommon mineral in the oxidized zones of U–V...Colorado Plateau-type deposits. Association: Carnotite, corvusite, uvanite, hewettite, metatorbernite...Distribution: In the USA, from Temple Rock and Flat Top, Emery Co., and at the Cactus Rat mine group, Yellow
Report (issue)
174(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Monument No. 2 mine, Arizona, USA. 11.03 (100), 5.53 (35), 2.164 (25), 3.091... fervanite, navajoite, carnotite, tyuyamunite (Colorado Plateau deposits, USA). Distribution: From Minasragra...Peru. In the USA, in the Jo Dandy mine, Bull Canyon district, Paradox Valley, Uravan district, Montrose...in Utah, from the Cactus Rat mine group, Yellow Cat district, 24 km southeast of Thompson, Grand Co.;...Arizona, long fibers from the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley, also in the Carrizo and Lukachukai Mountains
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state...elev. From 1,000’ on the eastern border with Montana and Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with...with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly...abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi. Black Hills region enclosed by the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne rivers. These...These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington
Book
MATERIALS Copyright © 1958 by the McGraw-Hill Book Con1pany, Inc. Printed in the United States of An1erica...be reproduced in any form without pern1ission of the publishers. Library of Congress Catalog Ntm1ber 58-7419... • I PREFACE In 1948 uraniun1 ore production in the United States was about 70,000 tons; by 1956 production...vaulted to approximately 3 n1illion tons; and in the first half of 1957 slightly more than 1,700,000 tons...in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in Wyo1ning. These figures are a measure of the intensity and
Report (issue)
Sandstone in the United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 538 Prepared partly on behalf of the U.S... Geology of Epigenetic Uranium Deposits in Sandstone in the United States By WARREN I. FINCH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Prepared partly on behalf of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission A review of the geologic studies and explorations...explorations of uranium deposits in sandstone in the United States from I943 to I959 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...WASHINGTON : 1967 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
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Preliminary Study of Radioactive Limonite in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This...on behalf of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and is published with the permission of the Commission...in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming By T. G. LOVERING and E. P. BERONI CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF URANIUM...on behalf of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and is published with the permission of the Commission...DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRED A. SEATON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Thomas B. Nolan, Director The Library
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Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Colorado Plateau Uranium Ores Compiled by ROBERT M. GARRELS and ESPER...summary of the results of field and laboratory studies concerned with the nature of the ores and the alteration...on behalf of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and is published with the permission of the Commission ...WASHINGTON : 1959 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRED A. SEATON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...SURVEY Thomas B. Nolan, Director For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing
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sediments; the erosional products of some 200 million years. Few, if any Mesozoic rocks appear within the state...Pleistocene debris. The state was buried completely four times by Ice Age glaciers, leaving the land surface...nearly level but with some fairly rugged low hills in the southeastern corner. There are few localities containing...worthwhile gems or minerals, although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales...ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of
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