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Carnotite from
Bitter Creek Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Carnotite
Formula:K2(UO2)2(VO4)2 · 3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Carnotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bitter Creek Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:433261
Long-form Identifier:1:3:433261:9
GUID (UUID V4):f67112cd-9d82-4426-adf8-ecf0cdc5dc21
Nearest other occurrences of Carnotite
1.5km (0.9 miles) Ruth K & Sylvia Claims Group (Silvia and Ruth K.), Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Long Park Group, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) Mineral Joe No. 1 Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Little Bob et al Claims, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) J J Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Hummer Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) Jo Dandy Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
6.5km (4.0 miles) Nora L. Claims 3-18, Bull Canyon Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Nucla Mine, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) Opera Box Mine (Aztec Mine), Gypsum Valley, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Zoning of the Bitter Creek Vanadium-Uranium Deposit Near Uravan Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...GEOLOGY ZONING OF THE BITTER CREEK VANADIUM-URANIUM DEPOSIT NEAR URAVAN, COLORADO By ALLEN V. HEYL ABSTRACT...vanadium and uranium deposit of the Bitter Creek mine south of Uravan, Colo., is in the upper part of the...disseminated deposits of vanadiferous clays and carnotite nearer the outcrop. Similar but less distinctive...zones are exposed in many other mines in the Uravan district. The zones represent progressive oxidation
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 ABSTRACT...identification and occurrence of uranium minerals of the Colorado Plateaus, contains descriptions of the physical...mineralogic investigation of uranium ores from the Colorado Plateaus. This work is part of a program undertaken...other 13 14 URANIUM AND VANADIUM MINERALS FROM COLORADO PLATEAUS compilations: Gruner and Gardiner's
Book
GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN OVERVIEW RESOURCES...RESOURCES TECTONICS GEOLOGY URAVAN MINERAL BELT LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) ORE BELT ORE BODIES URANIUM...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...MESAS LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER
Report (volume)
. 234 " y { " ,-t .. .~,:",. I " , COLORADO "or.! _ +, (~ STATE OF .~ :'(' COL~ADO /... BULLETIN 40 RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BlaLlllGRAPHY by James L. Nelson-Moore,...Energy COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESUURCES STATE OF COLORADO DENVER, COLORADO 1978...ete 11 st r ng of rad i aaet 1ve occurrences 1n Colorado, with a comprehensive blbi iography and bibliographic...on the Colorado Plateau sparked several periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MONTROSEITE, A NEW VANADIUM OXIDE THE COLORADO PLATEAUS* FROM Arrca D. Wnnrs, EvBr-vw A. Crsxrv, arqn...mineral named from Montrose County, Colo., has been found in four mines in western colorado and in two mines...during the summer of 1949 at the Bitter Creek mine, Montrose County, Colo., and was studied by the writers...Weeksfrom the Jo Dandy mine, Montrose County, and the Matchless mine, Mesa County, Colo., in 1950; from...the Bitter Creek and the Wh:tney mines, Montrose County, Colo., in 1951, and from the Juniper mine, Grand
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Mines Special Reports _.......__ ________ Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology...Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal _ , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta _ Bulletin, Geological...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...the areas and subjects are listed under States, "Colorado Plateau," "United States," or under a few subject
Report (issue)
water; as efflorescences in mines. Association: Carnotite. Distribution: At Minasragra, 46 km from Cerro...deposit, La Rioja Province, Argentina. In the USA, in Colorado, from the Hawkeye, Burro, and Deremo-Snyder...Miguel Co.; in the Bitter Creek, Mill No. 1, and Peanut mines, Uravan district, Montrose Co.; at the Corvusite...mines, Gateway district, Mesa Co.; and from the Rifle mine, Garfield Co. At the Black Ape mine, Thompsons...Thompsons district, Grand Co., the Crescent No. 3 claim, Crescent Creek, Garfield Co., and the Mi Vida mine, Big
Report (issue)
Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Colorado Plateau Uranium Ores Compiled by ROBERT M. GARRELS and ESPER...provided an unequaled opportunity to investigate the Colorado Plateau uranium ores. This volume summarizes the...Plateau ores. Among the most important are: (1) the carnotite and similar ores that have yielded the great bulk...uranium deposits than those represented on the Colorado Plateau. The general patterns of the oxidation...Introduction. 1 Part 1. Geologic setting of the Colorado Plateau ores, by Alice D. Weeks and R. M. Garrels________
Report (issue)
= n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Temple Rock, Utah, USA. 10.7 (10), 2.95 (5), 3.49 (4), 2.62 (3), 3.87 (2)...Utah, USA; recalculated after deduction of 27.06% impurities. (2) Monument No. 2 mine, Arizona, USA. (3)...oxidized zones of U–V ores in Colorado Plateau-type deposits. Association: Carnotite, corvusite, uvanite, hewettite...Distribution: In the USA, from Temple Rock and Flat Top, Emery Co., and at the Cactus Rat mine group, Yellow...Yellow Cat district, 24 km southeast of Thompson, Grand Co., Utah; in Colorado, at the Small Spot, Arrowhead
Report (volume)
Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT
Report (issue)
DETERMINATION OF THE AGE OF SOME URANIUM ORES OF THE COLORADO PLATEAUS BY THE LEAD-URANIUM METHOD UNITED...DETERMINATION OF THE AGE OF SOME URANIUM ORES OF THE COLORADO PLATEAUS BY THE LEAD-URANIUM METHOD By L. R. Stief£....... Pb 206 /U ages of 41 uranium ores of the Colorado Plateaus....................... Page 1 1 2 2...Continued P^ZOT^JZSS ages o{ 41 uranium ores of the Colorado Plateaus.................. Pb 206/U ages and Pb...ILLUSTRATIONS Page Figure 1. Index map of part of the Colorado Plateaus showing location of samples used for
Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
Report (issue)
SOURCES FOR GROUND-WATER HYDROLOGY AND GEOLOGY OF COLORADO WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE By Edward R. Banta...in cooperation with the COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD Denver, Colorado 1992 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF...Copies of this report can be purchased from: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey Box 25046, Mail Stop...geologic data for wells and test holes in western Colorado- - ________ _ ____ 111 3 BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX...SOURCES FOR GROUND-WATER HYDROLOGY AND GEOLOGY OF COLORADO WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE By Edward R. Banta
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
systems as applied to the interpretation of the Colorado Plateau ore deposits* H. T. EVAXS. Jr. and R....outstanding feature of the uranium ores in the Colorado Plateau sandstones is their high vanadium content...Thus, at Rifle, on the flank of the Park Range in Colorado. uranium is virtually absent’ from the vanadium...of western (‘olorado, known appropriately as the Uravan mineral belt (FISHER and HILPEET. 195%), the ores...intensive programme of study and dev-elopment in the Colorado Plateau area sponsored by the Atomic .F:nergy
Report (volume)
magnetite-ilmenite deposits near Lake Sanford, Esse"!{ County, New York: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 940-D, p. 99-123...mineralogic occurrences of base-metal vanadates, and the Colorado Plateau region, where vanadium-uranium deposits...countries, and major geographic units, such as the Colorado Plateau region. "The Statesman's Yearbook," 19651966...See also tangeite. Carnotite, K2(U02),(V04)2·3H20-- __________ do ________ _ Carnotite, cesium analogue...; Columbus, Ohio. Am. Inst. Mining Engineers Trans. See Am. Inst. Mining Metall. Petroleum Engineers
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...--8. Cross sections of roll ore bodies of the Colorado Plateau region_________________________________________...size in sandstone beds of Triassic age in the Colorado Plateau region__ 10. Histogram showing the percentage...deposits in sandstone beds of Triassic age in the Colorado Plateau region_______________________________
Book
mid-1957, of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in Wyo1ning. These...doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the...siliceous and Ruoritic types, and the oxidized Colorado Plateau deposits are desc1ibed vvith those that...origin, e.g., Blind River, \i\litwatersrand, and Colorado Plateau. The writer has attempted to present equitably.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colorado Plateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
......................... 241 Rifle deposit,Colorado .................................................................................. Uravan mineral belt, Colorado ......................................thesisseemto be basedon depositson the Colorado Plateau in Colorado and Utah, and a few statements refer...is not related to Recent events. Rifle Deposit,Colorado.--Orerolls describedby Fischer (6) in thick, eolian-crossbedded...Sandstoneof Jurassicand Triassic(?) ageat the Rifle mine, Colorado,are alsorelativelylarge. They may be 20 feet
Report (issue)
Results of investigations 18 Future work 20 The Colorado Front Range project Relation of pitchblende deposition...radioactive bebtonl-,e dikes in the Central City district, Colorado 21 21 Purpose 21 Results of inve6tittions...ctivity of flu:r..rite from the Blue Jay mine, Jamesto,m, Colorado .. Purpose . Results of investigations...F14ture work 31 71 R; ferenc.-e= 51 The Colorado Plateau carnotite project . Purpose 31 Results of investigations...petrographic dE.Fcription of the roc.ks. romosinc the Bone Valley formation. Ff'r determine the uraniim content
Report (issue)
SANDSTONE OF THE MORRISON FORMATION IN WESTERN COLORADO By Alice Dowse Weeks This preliminary report is...SAIDSTOME OF THE MORKS011 FORMATION IN WESTERN COLORADO by Alice Dowse Weeks ..!3STRACT A preliminsary...ore-bearing sandstone at Dynamite mine, Bitter Creek group, Montrose County, Colo., consisted of red 1/ Fischer...Blackman, D., Geologic guides to carnotite deposits or. the Colorado Plateau: U. S. Geol. Survey Trace...and 10 red clay samples from Calamity Mesa, Mesa County, Colo., were parts of 1-inch drill cores from thirteen
Report (issue)
W. T. Schaller, Afwillite NMNH 95237 Dutoitspan Mine, Kimber¬ ley, South Africa Dutoitspan Ammonioborite...Geological Survey, 1950) Trinity Anemousite County, California. Contributions to Mineral¬ (discredited...Vonsen, 1920) NMNH 106112 from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, Ari¬ L. G. Berry, 1947. Composition and...Aluminocopiapite Utah NMNH K. J. Murata, Trinity County, California M. C. Bandy, 1938. Utah. J. M. Axelrod...93834 Island Mountain, Mountain, from Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona (L. J. Cabri, 1976) Island Group
Book
individual deposits or districts. (in brackets country, district, deposit reviewed): Adamek P. (Scandinavia), Adams...(South Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Coste A. (Limousin, France), Cuney M....France), Dardel J.RM. (France), Ewers G. (Pine Creek Geosyncline, Australia), Fritsche R (mineralogy)...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
Report (issue)
Four areas of peridotite near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Ark., were known at the time of the writer's visit...1912. One of these, that near the mouth of Prairie Creek, has been known to geologists since 1842. The rock... 1906, in the area near the moutji, of Prairie Creek, and, according to D. B. Sterrett,2 approximately...1908, pp. 187-194. Fuller, J. T., Diamond mine in Pike County, Ark.: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 87, 1909...C., and Brackett, E. N., The peridotite of Pike County, Ark.: Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser. vol. 38, 1889, pp
Book
Published by Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 4880 Lo\:ver Valley Road Atglen, PA 193 10 Phone: (610) 593-1777; Fax:...is a fue l for reactors to produce electricity, mining operati ons. Robert Lau f presents here a highly...softvva re, using data files from the Boulder, Colorado; Pau la Piilonen, Candian Museum of An1erican...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
Report (volume)
863 GEOLOGY OF THE SALT VALLEY ANTICLINE AND ADJACENT AREAS GRAND COUNTY, UTAH BY C. H. DANE UNITED...series..--____-_-_-_-_-_-______--___.________ Paradox formation.____-_-___---__-_____-__-__-__..__. Hermosa...structure______-___-___-__---__--__-----___-_-_____ Salt Valley anticline.__-------_-_-_____---_---_____________...area_----_~---_---_----_-___-___---_-.._---_-___Cache Valley graben________-_..___________________________ Elephant...dome.-.---------------__--__-___--_____..._ Onion Creek anticline___---__--___--__-_-_-______--______ Cottonwood
 
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