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Pitchblende from
Mi Vida Mine, Lisbon Valley Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
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 Mi Vida Mine, Lisbon Valley Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:186899
Long-form Identifier:1:3:186899:9
GUID (UUID V4):76355f04-425b-4e31-900e-f564df1f642d
Nearest other occurrences of Pitchblende
21.8km (13.5 miles) Gray Daun Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
22.4km (13.9 miles) Vanadium Queen Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
23.9km (14.9 miles) Black Hat Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
24.9km (15.5 miles) Yellow Bird Mine, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
46.8km (29.1 miles) Golden Cycle Mine (Bowen), Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
50.0km (31.1 miles) AEC Lease Tract Unit C-SM-18 Prospect, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
51.4km (31.9 miles) Monte group, Elk Ridge Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
62.2km (38.6 miles) Shinarump Nos. 1 - 3 Mines, Seven Mile Canyon Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
78.1km (48.6 miles) Hellroaring Canyon, White Canyon, Grand County, Utah, USA
96.9km (60.2 miles) White Canyon No. 1 Mine, Fry Mesa, White Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Bastin, E. S., 1922, The geology of the Braden mine, Rancagua, Chile: EcoN. GEOL., v. 17, p. 75-99....Carbonatite-kimberliterelations in the Cave Valley dia- treme,Sin JuanCounty,Utah: Jour. Geophys. Research, v. 78...Mineralized volcanic explosionpipes: Engineering Mining Jour., v. 126, p. 895-898, 939-942, 976984. Williams...Williams, H., and McBirney, A. R., 1979,Volcanology: San Francisco,Calif., Foreman Cooper and Co., p. 397...uranium minerals thatmayhavecomefroman ore depositin Lisbon are localized alongwest-trending faultsthatterminate
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 (issue)
impregnation, replacement, or coating on fractures and mine walls. The commonly associated minerals are listed...other Survey geologists, AEC geologists, and by mine operators. Identification is based on the writers'...listed by mine name and the mining district, as shown on a map by Shoemaker and Luedke.2 Most mine names...familiar with the mining districts an alphabetical list of mine and mining district names is given in...in table 2; also the county and state in which each is situated. The number of localities is restricted
Book
- [ URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN...MINERAL BELT LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) ORE BELT ORE BODIES URANIUM DISTRICTS AND MINING AREAS SLICK ROCK...ROCK DISTRICT GYPSUM VALLEY DISTRICT BULL CANYON DISTRICT URAVAN DISTRICT GATEWAY DISTRICT (EASTERN GATEWAY...AREA PARADOX DISTRICT BEAVER AND POLAR MESAS LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER...RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER REGION RICHARDSON-DEWEY AREA LOWER KANE SPRINGS AREA INDIAN
Report (volume)
the Colorado Plateau is the center of the uranium mining industry in the United States, certain reports...Lincoln County, Nev.... Lander County, Nev.. ...... . Virgin Valley opal district........ Lyon County, Nev............... Tonopah area, Esmeralda County, Nev. Clark County, Nev.---------- . Olancha, Calif. _ ._...---------- ..... Taft-McKittrick area ---------Ridenour mine . .-. ._ ... Aguila area ..-.- ......................____..._-----__-. Cameron area . . Monument Valley (includes Copper Canyon, Hunts Mesa, Nokai Mesa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization and alteration accompanying faulting 4. Mine adit in bleached-clay zone 5. Dolomite masses replacing...northeast to Arizona on the southwest (Fig. 1). Most mining activity is con- Page Figure 12. Schematic diagram... 1096 17. Structural pattern, southern San Rafael Swell, Utah 1098 18. Hot-springs deposition along Nacimiento...Nacimiento fault 1099 19. Alteration along Lisbon Valley fault 1099 20. Encircling and penetrating igneous...section of uranium-bearing pipe, Woodrow Mine 1103 27. Orphan Mine, Grand Canyon, Arizona... 1101 28. Circular
Report (volume)
____ __ __ __________ __ ___ 125 125 History of mining and production ____ ------------------------------Geologic...deposits_____________________________________ ~onurnent Valley belt_-----------------------------------East ·white...vanadium, copper, and radium during various periods of mining in the past 50 years. Most of the deposits in Triassic...Triassic unconformity. In northeastern Arizona, eastern Utah, and western Colorado three mineral belts have been...underlain by the Chinle formation, are the Monument Valley belt, the east White Canyon belt, and the Moab
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the San Francisco volcanic center, and the Cameron ore bodies to the northeast; (3) in Utah, arcuate...occur in Lisbon Valley to the west of the La Sal igneous center, and in Colorado, the Uravan district encircles...west prong extends northward through Marysvale, Utah, into Idaho. Related deposits occur in the Boulder...the accompanying chemical changes. Caribou Mine, Boulder County, Colorado Among the Front Range veins, the...vein. Central City District, Gilpin County, Colorado The Central City district in the heart of the Front
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
channel sample collected from the Mineral Joe mine, Montrose County, Colorado, and are fully described by GARRELSand...GARRELSand others (in preparation). The mine is in the Morrison formation of Jurassic age. The channel...uranium ore, Mineral Joe mine, Cola. Oxidized ore, composite sample. Mineral Joe mine, Cola. Oxidized ore...ore, Xneral Joe mine Cola. Partially oxidized uranium ore, Mineral Joe mine, Colo. Fresh umninite, Happy...Happy Jack mine, Utah Oxidized ore, Happy Jack mine, Utah Carbonaceous ore, Temple Mountain, Utah Fresh unaltered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and eastern Utah. Todilto limestone,which carries ore in the Grants, New Mexico, district, underlies the...areas--Moabdistrict,San Juan County,Utah; Montezuma Canyonarea,SanJuanCounty,Utah; Lukachukai Mountains...ApacheCounty,Arizona. This studysuggests that the mining ORE CONTROLS IN SANDSTONE URANIUM DEPOSITS...azimuthof fossillogs. For example,in the Thompsonarea,Utah, the favoredorientationof elongate orebodies is...depositshave been worked for a i I **Meoker .' , UTAH • • CO•RA• •__• ,Gront• .Hobrook 20 40 mil•s
Report (issue)
uranium-vanadium and copper deposits of the Lisbon Valley area, Utah-Colorado By Gordon W. Weir and Willard...Hermosa Formation in the northern part of the Moab district................................22 Regional stratigraphic...system............................................58 San Rafael group..........................................................................115 Spanish Valley syncline...................................115...............118 Collapse structures of Spanish Valley and environs........ 119 Kane Springs graben..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Plateauareaasyoungas Plioceneis known(e.g., Marysvale,Utah, 4), theargument is notstrong.Furtherthehypothesis...urano-organic material while all others are pitchblende. reasonsfor the lackof concordance in the isotopicagesof...contributeto the explanation of othertypesof pitchblende depositsthat showage discordance. ExperimentalProcedures...--Thesampleswere handspecimens of primary black pitchblende,except in two casesof urano-organicminerals....dryness. TABLE CHEMICAL Locality Pb-271 Divide Mine AND ISOTOPIC U/Pb <.011 2 DATA OF LEAD Pb204
Book
of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in Wyo1ning. These figures...doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pitchblende-Pyrite ( ± Pb, Cu, Ag Sulfides) Type . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Siliceous Pitchblende-SuIBde Veins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Pyrochlorc-microlite, apatite, zirkelite, crandalJite Pyrochlore-mi cro]j te Uraninite, zircon Uraninite Uraninite, fergusonite
Report (issue)
NAVAJO INDIAN RESERVATION ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, AND UTAH by James D. Bliss U.S. Geological Survey Menlo...Chinle siltstone and uranium emplacement, Arizona and Utah: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., v. 74, no. 1, p. 23-46. Adams...and chemical characteristics: Utah Geol. Surv. Guideb., Geology of Utah, no. 21, p. 53-77. Akers, J.P...1964, Mineralogy of the Cameron area, Coconino County, Arizona: USAEC RME-99, 99p. Austin, S.R., 1979...carbonaceous shale in the La Ventana Mesa area, Sandoval County, New Mexico: U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 1055-J, p.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bavaria. Anal 37. Dull, with purple fluorite. wooD MINE, Central city, colo. usNM 100453.G.:6.77. Anal 62...Prrcrrnr-uNors BIG INDIAN Wash, San Juan Co., Utah. Continental Uranium Co' Mine' H 106050' AnaI 35. Grayish...material, permeatedby calcite. HAPPY JACK Mine, White Canyon, Utah. Lent by L. Stieff and T' Stern' G':9'1'...G':9'1' Anal 25. Fine powder. MI VIDA Mine, san Juan co., utah. H 106040.G.:6.84. Anal 34. Massive,with seam...grains chalcopyrite. SHINARUMP NO. 3 mine, SevenmileDist., Grand Co', Utah. H 106039'DuIl, pulverulent, in
Report (issue)
· as a joint program of the Manhattan Engineer District and its successor, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...____________________ ___ _ Pitchblende deposits in the Central City district and adjoining areas, Gilpin...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...---Uranium in the fluorspar deposits of the Thomas Range, Utah, by Mortimer H. Staatz and Frank W. Osterwald__________
Book (edition)
Edition by Raye C. Ringholz Utah State University Press Logan, Utah Copyright © 2002 Raye C. Ringholz...Ringholz All rights reserved Utah State University Press Logan, Utah 84322-7800 Manufactured in the...74932 0979i3 2002009421 Department of Energy Mining and Railroad Museum. I. Title. For Carol Houck...ura- nium ore in the United States. His MiVida Mine, struck in an area thought to be unpromising,...many engaged in of the Colorado Plateau, where Utah, Mexico ore-seekers, promoters snapped aires
Book
engineering and mining journal GEORGE Managing P. editor, LUTJEN engineering and mining journal McGRAW-HILL...Splendor mining the The Roy operations. Munro authors are also indebted to New York Mi Vida min-...certain legal questions pertaining to uranium mining. Other sources of information which proved helpful...Survey, the United Bureau of Mines, the Colorado Mining As- States sociation, the tion, the Uranium...Department of Mines and Technical Surveys. The on mining laws in the Middle Western and Eastern states was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sunnwooo, Rabbitite, a new uranyl carbonate from Utah U. S. Geol Survey Trace Elements Investigation Report...No. Z /p:15". 2 mine, San Rafael district, Utah, as an emorescent coating on the mine wall, and is associated...sandstone and replacing wood, at 9 mines in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico. This mineral is referred to as...No' 2 mine, Mesa County, Colorado, with clausthalite and pitchblende at Corvusite mine, Grand County, Utah...Utah, at the Mi Vida mine, San Juan County, Utah. 1037 1038 NEW MINERAL NAMES The second mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uraninite in vein depositsin the copper King mine, Larimer county, colorado. It is also associatedwith asphaltic...with zircon; material from the Arrowhead mine in Mesa County, Colorado, has ao:6'94 A, co:6.31A, oo:ro:1:0...highly radioactive ore from the La Sar No. 2 mine, Mesa County, Colorado, which gave a zircon-typ e tc-raydifiraction...of high-grade uranium ore from the La Sal No. 2 mine was received at the U. S. vanadium company processingmill...Riley, L. R. Stiefi, and T. W. Stern examined the mine from which the high-grade black ore had come' since
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...Report ____________ ___._ Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey.... Utah Geological Society, Guidebook...Guidebook to the Geology of Utah __..______._.______ Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook Miscellaneous
Book
INTRODUCTION TO Robert Laut, Ph.D. 4880 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, Pennsylvania 19310 Dedication This...Published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 4880 Lower Valley Road Atglen, PA 19310 Phone: (610) 593-1777; Fax:...Gilbert Gautier; Eric Greene, Treasure Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes, Minerals America; Shelley and Dan... and by the early part of the 18th centu ry pitchblende was recognized by the miners as a distinct substance...produced "uranium" powder in 1789 by reducing pitchblende with charcoa l. This p roduct was assumed to
Report (issue)
the uranium deposit at the Happy Jack mine, San Juan County, Utah, by Albert F. Trites, Jr., Randall T...localization and oxidation of ore at the Peanut mine, Montrose County, Colorado, by Carl H. Roach and Mary E....18. Geology and mineralogy of the J. J. mine, Montrose County, Colorado, by Donald P. Elston and Theodore...geology of the Rifle and Garfield mines, Garfield County, Colorado, by Theodore Botinelly and R. P. Fischer__________...Colorado Plateau, which covers parts of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, are the principal domestic
Report (volume)
prepared a yellow oxide (U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the...the Erzgebirge of Saxony. Pitchblende had been earlier recognized from this place and from the nearby locality...Curie, M. Curie, and G. Bemont in 1898 from pitchblende from J oachimsthal. Until the discovery of atomic...development of the rich uranium ores of the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great...U. S. Geological Survey. The present intensive mining activities in the Colorado Plateau region and associated
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individual deposits or districts. (in brackets country, district, deposit reviewed): Adamek P. (Scandinavia), Adams...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
 
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