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Carnotite from
Too High Mine, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley 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 Too High Mine, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:378877
Long-form Identifier:1:3:378877:6
GUID (UUID V4):aaed8aa8-c489-4f81-b463-b89e67e3bb08
Nearest other occurrences of Carnotite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Too High Mine, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Yip Yip Mine, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Greasy Spoon Occurrence, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
2.2km (1.3 miles) Elroy Mine (Elray Mine; Eldo Wray Mine; Lucky Strike No. 13), Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) Lucky no. 1 Mine, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Elray Mine, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Brushy Basin No. 3, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Brushy Basin no. 3 Mine, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Boomer Mine (Hot Rock; Pole Cat Occurrence), Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Uranium Girl Occurrence, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
References
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Book
GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN OVERVIEW RESOURCES...LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) ORE BELT ORE BODIES URANIUM DISTRICTS AND MINING AREAS SLICK ROCK DISTRICT GYPSUM...GYPSUM VALLEY DISTRICT BULL CANYON DISTRICT URAVAN DISTRICT GATEWAY DISTRICT (EASTERN GATEWAY AREA) MC...AREA LA SAL CREEK AREA PARADOX DISTRICT BEAVER AND POLAR MESAS LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB...MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER REGION RICHARDSON-DEWEY AREA LOWER KANE
Report (issue)
Deposits of the La Sal Quadrangle San Juan County, Utah, and Montrose County, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of the La Sal Quadrangle San Juan County, Utah, and Montrose County, Colorado By WILLIAM D. CARTER..._________________________________________ _ Sinbad Valley anticline _____________________ _ Roc Creek syncline...geology-Continued Folds-Continued Castle Valley-Paradox Valley anticline _______ _ Willow Basin syncline...--Geyser Creek syncline ________ --_----_------La Sal Creek syncline ________ - __ - ________ - - _ Pine
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
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
NEW AND KNOWN MINERALS FROM THE UTAH-COLORADO CARNOTITE REGION. By FRANK L. HESS. VANOXITE, A NEW VANADIUM...exceptions, the carnotite deposits in the plateau region from Meeker, in northern Colorado, to Carrizo Mountain...Cretaceous or Upper Jurassic) age. Around the carnotite is usually an irregular envelope of dark vanadium-bearing...found. Like the carnotite, the other vanadium minerals so far found in the carnotite-bearing areas are... L. Cummings Chemical Co., in Gypsum Valley, San Miguel County, Colo. (latitude 38° 3' N., longitude
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)
....... 68 Uranium deposits in sandstones - Colorado Plateau. ... 68 Utilization of gamma-ray data...Yellow Cat area Grand County, Utah. ............... 73 Land-pebble phosphate district, Florida ...... 76...76 t Alluvial deposits, Salt River Valley, Arizona ... - 2 - 81 Contents Page Geophysical applications...Thorium deposits in Wet Mountains, Custer County, Colorado. ................ 83 Chattanooga shale ...Exploration at the Old Leyden Coal Mine, Jefferson County, Colorado... .......... 87 References cited
Report (volume)
............. On carnotite and associated vanadiferous minerals in western Colorado, by W. F. Hillebrand.........L.... Minerals from the Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona, by Waldemar Lindgren and W. F. Hillebrand.................... Two tellurium minerals from Colorado, by W. F. Hillebrand.....i.......... Notes on................ A pseudo-serpentine from Stevens County, Wash., by F. W. Clarke.......... On " californite...as a definite mineral. The true character of carnotite is shown in Doctor Hillebrand's research, and
Report (issue)
and Flume Canyon Wilderness Study Areas, Grand County, Utah U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1753-A ...and Flume Canyon Wilderness Study Areas, Grand County, Utah By ROBERT P. DICKERSON, JERRY D. GACCETTA...and Flume Canyon wilderness study areas, Grand County, Utah. (Mineral resources of wilderness study areas...Canyon (UT-060-100B) Wilderness Study Areas, Grand County, Utah. CONTENTS Abstract Al Summary Al Character...Survey A4 Appraisal of identified resources A7 Mining activity A7 Oil and gas activity A7 Commodity appraisal
Report (issue)
· as a joint program of the Manhattan Engineer District and its successor, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...conference, increased by contributions which arrived too late for a place in Proceedings of the United Nations...the Central City district and adjoining areas, Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, ·Colorado, by Paul K. Sims...deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W. Adams and Frederick Stugard, J...to pitchblende-bearing veins at Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, by George W. Walker and Frank W. Osterwald
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...238 239 Chapter 7 : PYROMETASOMATIC AND OTHER HIGH-INTENSITY HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS Pyron1etasomatic
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
Journal (issue)
the South Pass and Atlantic City Mining District of Fremont County, Wyoming. by L. V. Abbott ..........Frederic F. Mellen ...... The Radium Mining Area of Southwestern Colorado. by Ronald L. Ives ...............mineral specimens, has recently returned to Boulder, Colorado, after a very successful tour of New York, Philadelphia...hypostylus, and was excavated from a quarry in Weld County, Colorado. Trigonias lived about thirty million years...bulb ordinarily used. This fact accounts for the high price of the lamp. In the writer's opinion, the
Journal (issue)
in working up on a large scale the low grade carnotite ore which is at present the visible future source...States two corporations producing radium salts of high purity the Standard Chemical Company, of Pittsburgh...totalled 9.6 grams of the radium element. The carnotite ore worked by the Standard Chemical Compnny contains...mentioned method is always successful in giving very high efficiency, when desired, and actual calculation...the radium cannot be had, or that the price is too high but rather that the people who should be aware
Report (volume)
Notes on the gold lodes of the Carrville district, Trinity County, Cal., by D. F. MacDpnald...............account of the ore deposits of the Loon Creek district, Idaho, byJ. B.Umpleby..........................Antelope district, Nev., by F. C. Schrader................... Notes on the northern La Sal Mountains...Mountains, Grand County, Utah, by J. M. Hill. Survey publications on gold and silver..................................... COPPER: The Turquoise copper-mining district, Ariz., by F. L. Ransome........... Survey publications
Report (issue)
NOTES ON THE VANADIUM DEPOSITS NEAR PLACERVILLE, COLORADO. By FRANK L. HESS. INTRODUCTION. Late in the...the nineties a dull-green sandstone in the steep valley walls near Placerville, Colo., was found to be vanadium-bearing...vanadium-bearing, and R.IO W. R..II W. DENVER ; COLORADO FIGURE 19. Sketch map of the vanadium deposits...Elacerville is located in San Miguel County, southwestern Colorado, at the western base of the Rocky Mountains...19.) It is on the east side of the deep, narrow valley of the San Miguel, which here has cut down to a
Report (issue)
by Mead LeRoy Jensen Kennecott's Bingham Canyon mine, the world's largest open pit, symbolizes the importance...Churchill Province of Northern Utah and Western Colorado Structure . . . Geochronology. . . 79 79 The...125 Tour of the Wasatch Fault Zone in Salt Lake County. . Warm Springs Fault . . East Bench Fault Main... . . 2. Map of Wasatch fault zone in Salt Lake County ; Utah. . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 3. Geologic...• • • . . GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY OF THE JORDAN VALLEY, UTAH, by R. W. Mower 140 143 147 148 148 150
Report (volume)
._--__---.-.-_---_.-------.---_-_____.---_---Carnotite.---.........----------.-..-------.-..--.--......ARSENIDES. BISMUTHINITB. From the Rosario Mining District, Sinaloa, Mexico. W. I-I. Melville. Described...Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis...A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district of Algoma, Ontario. Specific...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25
Report (issue)
localities in the vicinity of Cartersville, Bartow County, Ga., and at one place between 1\ and 3 miles southeast...of the Cartersville district has been worked out by the senior writer. The district is in the southeastern...southeastern half of. Bartow County, and the outcropping rocks are the older crystalline schists, a Bull. U....of the area. The Paleozoic rocks outcrop in the valley region to the west. In descending order and as...the yellow ocher deposits in the Cartersville district is a direct replacement of the silica in the Weisner
Report (volume)
i" Morrison Formation, Jo Dandy Area Montrose County, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report...the Morrison Formation, Jo Dandy Area Montrose County, Colorado By WILLIAM L. NEWMAN and DONALD P. ELSTON...ILLUSTRATIONS Page FIGTTBB 19. Index map of part of the Colorado Plateau showing location of Jo Dandy area____...of the Morrison formation, Jo Dandy area, Montrose County, Colo_________________________________ 3. Semiquantitative...radiometric analyses of rocks of the Jo Dandy area, Montrose County, Colo______ 126 135 144 CONTRIBUTIONS TO
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
287 l yuyam~n~t~ from the Tyuya-Muyun radium mine i~ Fer,qana. 9 ~ I " ) B V PI~iTR N. CItlI~u ...Applied Geology and Mineralogy an(l Dean of the Mining Faculty in the Don Polytechnic Institute, Novocherkassk...TlOr~tr~'loltiiz. a W. F. Hillebrand, Carnotite and tyuyamunite and their ores in Colorado and btah. Amer. Journ. Sci...the town of Andijan in Fergana. The mine and the surroundilJg district have been actively studied from a...of Tyuya-~[uyun in Russian Turkestan. The radium mine is shown on the low hill to the right. . Academy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
287 l yuyam~n~t~ from the Tyuya-Muyun radium mine i~ Fer,qana. 9 ~ I " ) B V PI~iTR N. CItlI~u ...Applied Geology and Mineralogy an(l Dean of the Mining Faculty in the Don Polytechnic Institute, Novocherkassk...TlOr~tr~'loltiiz. a W. F. Hillebrand, Carnotite and tyuyamunite and their ores in Colorado and btah. Amer. Journ. Sci...the town of Andijan in Fergana. The mine and the surroundilJg district have been actively studied from a...of Tyuya-~[uyun in Russian Turkestan. The radium mine is shown on the low hill to the right. . Academy
Book (edition)
atid aeseae eueneSasehr i ia Bdtit _WYOQMING COLORADO _ LADORE 7C CRAIG r3GRANBY 17d KREMMLING...\Wocos ‘ ANTES 15a 9b 20, RICESY. yj ta 15D MONTROSE * Zt FAIRPLAY ca BUENA VISTA Q5b DELTA 2...COEORADORI 2 NEW MEXICO x pec, Inn? UKE) COLORADO TOURS LEGEND NUMBERED TOURS UNNUMBERED TOUR...Gallege COLORADO A Guide to the Highest State WITHDRAWN AWAACK TAY 2 \e Line COLORADO A Guide...Program Projects Administration of the State of Colorado AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES ILLUSTRATED HASTINGS
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MILEAGE L OGS. REVISED EDITION Revised Edition, COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE HICllAHD :--1. PEARL...an extensive ¥em and mineral collecting tour 01 Colorado, revealing the interesting places where Nature...Swallow, Publisher) 2679 South York Street Denver, Colorado 80210 - , =· - ·, BOOKS BY RICHARD M. PEARL...PEARL Exploring Rocks, Minerals, Fossils in Colorado America's Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak...Atlas of Colorado American Gem Trails Nature As Sculptor: A Geologic Interpretation of Colorado . Scenery
Report (volume)
are generally relatively small, but some are of high grade. Most of the world production of uranium,...Witwatersrand, South Africa, and in the Blind River district of Ontario, Canada, contain millions, possibly...uraninite, the silicate coffinite, the vanadates carnotite and tyuyamunite, and the complex titanates brannerite...and many articles and notes in Engineering and Mining Journal and other technical journals. 12 Fischer...Nigeria (Mackay and Beer, 1952), quartz bostonite in Colorado (Larsen and Phair, in Faul, 1954, p. 87), and
 
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