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Uraninite from
Smith Mine, Gonzales County, Texas, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Uraninite
Formula:UO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uraninite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Smith Mine, Gonzales County, Texas, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:983295
Long-form Identifier:1:3:983295:4
GUID (UUID V4):507a5ac3-e7c2-4821-95c4-294a4388b32c
Nearest other occurrences of Uraninite
54.1km (33.6 miles) Nuhn Mine (Lyssy; Gembler; Korzekwa; Climax), Tordilla Hill prospects (Boso lease; Nuhn lease), Karnes Uranium Mining District, Karnes County, Texas, USA
56.6km (35.2 miles) Weddington - Tenneco Mine, Karnes Uranium Mining District, Karnes County, Texas, USA
62.8km (39.0 miles) Pawnee Mine, Pawnee, Bee County, Texas, USA
81.0km (50.4 miles) Kopplin Mine, Ray Point Mining District, Live Oak County, Texas, USA
82.4km (51.2 miles) Lamprecht Mine, Ray Point Mining District, Live Oak County, Texas, USA
83.1km (51.6 miles) Zamzow Mine, Ray Point Mining District, Live Oak County, Texas, USA
84.7km (52.6 miles) Sulfur Creek Mine, Ray Point Mining District, Live Oak County, Texas, USA
84.7km (52.6 miles) Felder Mine, Ray Point Mining District, Live Oak County, Texas, USA
85.5km (53.1 miles) McLean mine, Ray Point Mining District, Live Oak County, Texas, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...practically unknown mineralogically. ARTHUR E . SMITH 9118 C o n c h o Houston, T e x a s 77036 IN S...I T S T O P O G R A P H Y A N D G E O L O G Y , Texas, the second largest state, has produced relatively...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has had—or currently has—nu­ merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...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...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Book
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... N.M., USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid...Voss C. (general), Wallace A.R (Schwartzwalder, USA), Wutzler B. (Australia). The numerous manuscripts
Report (volume)
Thorpe (Mauch Chunk), Pa_-_--_-______________ Mora County, N. Mex____________________________ Oklahoma and...Powder River Basin______________-________________ Texas Coastal Plains Karnes County_______________________...Homestake Mining Co. pit 7, Hulett Creek, Crook County, Wyo...-.-__-__ 4. Sketch showing relation of samples...samples from Sodak Mining Co. pit, Converse County, Wyo_____-_-_---------_---------- C4 10 16 22 IV...sandstone samples from the Coyote district, Mora County, N. Mex_______________ 3. Chemical analyses of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sunshine Mine, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho, USA Robert E. Zartman a,⁎, Joseph V. Smith b,1 a b Earth...02139, USA Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA a r t i...7 September 2008 Keywords: Sunshine Mine Coeur d'Alene Uraninite Brannerite Zircon U–Pb age a b s t...207Pb/206Pb ages reported in the 1950s on uraninite from the Sunshine Mine. Field studies, on the other hand...5700-foot level of the Sunshine Mine allows reinvestigation of the uraninite using modern electron microprobe
Report (issue)
Uranium is a geochemically persistent element. Uraninite, a common uranium mineral, has been precipitated...and brown uranium ore minerals, pitchblende and uraninite, occur either in extensive bedded deposits in...Wyoming), or gulf-type basins (e.g., province 3-Texas Gulf Coast); and (2) in areas of silicic intrusions...and adjacent states) Pacific Coast, California Texas Gulf Coast Phosphate fields of Florida and South...fields Permian and Triassic basins (in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma) Devonian marine black shale basins
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
association with uraninite in vein depositsin the copper King mine, Larimer county, colorado. It is also...sediments in Texas and Oklaholna. In many Colorado Plateau mines cofiinite and uraninite are the main...association with low-valence vanadium minerals, uraninite, clay, quartz, and organic material. In transmitted...with zircon; material from the Arrowhead mine in Mesa County, Colorado, has ao:6'94 A, co:6.31A, oo:ro:1:0...fine-grained nature and its association with uraninite and low-valence vanadium minerals, coffinite could
Report (issue)
rare-earth elements (REE), Ca , and Fe2+. As uraninite it is precipitated either at high temperatures...brown) uranium ore minerals (pitchblende and uraninite) occur either in extensive bedded deposits of...Colorado Plateau, U.S.A.), or gulf-type basins (e.g., Texas), and particularly in those basins containing sediments...example: the Colorado Plateau, Wyoming Basins, and Texas Gulf Coast, U.S.A.; Salta and Mendoza Provinces...and iron sulfide. The ore minerals are either uraninite or brannerite. During early Precambrian time the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
15:01 05 January 2015 ARTHUR E. SMITH 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036 artsmithite@msn.com Figure...entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...(microcrystals) (Bearss and Janules 1992). Arthur E. Smith, after whom the mineral artsmithite was named, was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NEBRASKA NORTH DAKOTA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND TEXAS BY MARGARET COOPER CONTENTS Page Page 1. Foreword...Part 2, and Part 3 258 Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Section 2. Additional References 259 United...South Dakota, and Texas 262 souri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas 299 FOREWORD...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. It is Part 4 of a comprehensive bibliography planned...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas; Index II, Geographical Index for Arkansas, Iowa
Report (issue)
California and Nevada __ ----- ______________ _ Texas Coastal Plain ________________________ _ Eastern...Wright (1955); many reports in Page, Stocking, and Smith (1956) ; Klepper and Wyant (1957, p. 126) ; Melin...generally forms uranium-rich minerals, such as uraninite (pitchblende), which-in sufficient quantityare...in 1874 at Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), Carbon County, Pa. ('Genth, 1875, p. 144B). In 1898 a deposit...vanadiferous sandstone was found at Roc Creek, Montrose County, Colo. This deposit was soon exploited for the
Report (volume)
Colorado 5 Palangana salt dome, Texas 5 Poison Basin, Wyoming 5 South Texas 6 Temple Mountain, Utah 6 Deposits...associations with petroliferous materials 10 Anderson mine, Date Creek Basin, Arizona 10 Cameron, Arizona 10...Basin, Wyoming 11 Monument Valley, Arizona 11 Orphan mine, Grand Canyon, Arizona 12 Tallahassee Creek, Colorado...study difficult. At the Palangana salt dome in Texas, uranium and oil occur in the basal part of the...overlying the caprock of the salt dome. In the south Texas district, uranium deposits show close spatial relations
Report (issue)
Radium lode-was first found in the South Terras mine in 1873 (Robertson and Dines, 1929, p. 147). Penrose...of ore was sold up to 1907 from the South Terra.s mine and that about 576 tons of uranium ores was produced...also was known to occur in the Leyden Coal mine~ Jefferson County, Colo., as early as 1875 (Berthoud, 1875...in the conterminous United States is to the Rajah mine, known earlier as the Copper Prince ( Briiyn, 1955...19p6) stated that "The initial shipment from the mine, made in 1898, • • • the South Terras property near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTHUR E. S M I T H 9 I I8 Concho Street Houstol1. Texas 77036 ERIC FRITZSCH 1520 S . 169th Avenue Omaha...including gold. However. except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl...and additions. Mlneral Index by Counties Brule County Elm Creek, IS mi. S. of Chamberlain, near junction...of Pierre Formation: barite (gray roses). Butte County Belle Fourche, 6 mi. W., secs. 23, 24, 25. and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dale, N. C. 1924. The box-vein of Lyomdale, Lewk County, New York. New York State Museum Bulletin 251:134-48...section of a 1.6cm graphite sphere from Sussex County, New Jersey, showing a radial texture and smooth...Graphite in ore: An unusual occurrence at the Sterling mine. The Picking Table 3ql):ll-13. Kvasnitsa, V. N....Saphorin, Switzerland. URANIUM MINERALS OF MAINE, USA, GRANITE PEG MATITES. K T King, P.O. Box 90888, Rochester...phosphuranylite, rutherfordine, torbemite/metatorbemite, uraninite/pitchblende, uranophane, vandendriesBcheite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pendarves Mine, Cornwall, UK Milltown Quarry, Derbyshire, UK Cheleken, Turkmenistan Florida, USA Cochise...Cochise County, AZ, USA Lower Pecos Region, Southwest TX, USA Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada St. Lawrence-Sagueney...Cretaceous Miocene Triassic Eocene U. Permian ‘coal mine’ w w w w w w w,hu w w hu,w w w w w w w w wd w w...Milan, OH, USA Havre, MT, USA Meade County, SD, USA Biggs, OR, USA Radon Mine, San Juan, UT, USA Majkop,...Schlema-Hartenstein, Saxony, Germany Himmelsfurst ¨ Mine, Freiberg, Germany Ronneburg, Thuringia, Germany
Report (volume)
Instruments ,Science ___ __.. ...._...__.__.._.._. Texas University Bureau of Economic Geology Report ____________...Bowman, Diane Curtis, Shirley S. Houser, Harriet B. Smith, Rollin C. Vickers, and Jane H. Wallace. The published...NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte, Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Public Library Durham, Duke University Library...Nashville, Joint University Libraries TEXAS Austin, University of Texas Library College Station, Agricultural...Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Library Dallas, Southern Methodist University Library *E1 Paso,
Report (issue)
Z = 4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Thomas Range, Utah, USA. 7.11 (10), 5.57 (9), 8.98 (8), 3.55 (7), 3.30 (7)...6 29.44 55.78 [7.02] 101.28 (1) Anderson mine, Arizona, USA; average of 8 electron microprobe analyses...“Opal," “chalcedony," calcite, gypsum, fluorite, uraninite, thorogummite, uranophane, boltwoodite, carnotite...carnotite, margaritasite. Distribution: In the USA, in Utah, at the Autunite No. 8 and Good Will claims, Thomas...from the Jackpile mine, Laguna, Valencia Co.; in Wyoming, in the Silver Cliff mine, near Lusk, Niobrara
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Street, Boulder, CO 80303, USA USGS, Denver, CO, USA c USGS, Reston, VA, USA d Department of Environmental...Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Available...sludge or ‘‘mud’’ from neutralization of acidic mine/mill effluents, containing Fe and a range of coprecipitated...sludge or ‘‘mud’’ from neutralization of acidic mine/mill effluents, containing Fe and a range of coprecipitated...at low pH, which may be a consideration in acidic mine and tailings sites. The redox potential of the U(IV)/U(VI)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DEPOSITS: CHARACTERIZATION OF URANIUM IN A SOUTH TEXAS (U.S.A.) LIGNITE J. D R E W ILGER, WAYNE A. I...Chemistry and the Coal and Lignite Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 (U.S.A...deposits: Characterization of uranium in a south Texas (U.S.A.) lignite. Chem. Geol., 63: 197-216. Investigations...association between U and carbonaceous material in south Texas lignite-sandstone ore bodies and other uraniferous...presence of specific, U-containing minerals, e.g. uraninite or coffinite, has been confirmed only in a few
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sieier R. Simoneit B. R. Simonson J. &son V. B. Smith D. Smith S. P. Spiker E. C. Spivak A. J. Sposito G...ex~~rnent~ study of Nb and Ta pa~itioning between Z-rich mine& silicate liquids at high pressure and temperature...com~sition of deep brines from thePaloDuroBasin,Texas . . . . . .._ .,...... .._. ._.. ,.. ., ., 73 ...South Platte gmnitepegmatite system, Jefferson County, Colorado 455 C. K. SNARER,J. J. PAPIKEand J. C...chemistry in hematite and goethite from 623 the Apex Mine, Utah, and some new data on germanium in aqueous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
not impor­ tant specimen producers: Newgate copper mine, which was used for a prison; the Allyndale quarry...believed that it may have come from the Tollgate mine or elsewhere in the Middletown area. D a n a (Palache...bismuth mine, but efforts to trace it to that locality have failed; it has been found at O l d Mine Park...is the author o f History and Minerals of O l d Mine Park (Saganawamps) (1985). A chemist, he was chairman...in schist: dravite. B o o t h ' s b i s m u t h mine, Monroe, B a r n H i l l near junction with Route
Report (volume)
1. Autoradiograph of dendritic aggregate of uraninite crystals ____________________ . ________ . ____...____ . ______________ . ____ Facing 1. Uraninite. A. Cube, a{100}. B. Cuba-octahedron, a{100} and o{111}...(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...these purposes were originally obtained from uraninite ·deposits in Saxony, Bohemia, and Cornwall. They...the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great Bear Lake, Canada, discovered in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mining of a sandstone uranium deposit, Wyoming, USA T.J. Gallegos a, *, K.M. Campbell b, R.A. Zielinski...Valley Drive, Mail Stop 956, Reston, VA, 20192, USA U.S. Geological Survey, 3215 Marine Street, Suite...Suite E-127, Mail Stop 496, Boulder, CO, 80303, USA U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center...Center, Mail Stop 939, Denver, CO, 80225, USA d Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Mail Stop...Alamos, NM, 87545, USA e Cameco Resources, 550 N. Poplar St., Ste 100, Casper, WY, 82601, USA f Stanford Synchrotron
Report (volume)
constitute ores. In the San Rafael Swell area, Emery County, Utah, and particularly at Temple Mountain within...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas: Geol. Soc. America Bull,, v. 66, p. 257-326. Postell...Extension, Oak Ridge, Tenn. Wallace, J. H., and Smith, H. B., 1955, Bibliography of U. S. Geological Survey...Devil No. 6 deposit [San Rafael Swell area, Emery County, Utah] had 0.105 percent uranium in two hydrocarbons...lower Permian dolomites of the Panhandle gas field, Texas, and in dolomites of the Seven Rivers gypsiferous
 
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