 | | 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 (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) | | 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.. |  | | Report (issue) | | Selected Mining Districts of Utah by Carl L. Ege Headframe of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic mining district...MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 05-5 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY a division of 2005 Utah Department of Natural Resources...Resources STATE OF UTAH Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Michael Styler, Executive...Executive Director UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Richard G. Allis, Director PUBLICATIONS contact Natural Resources...toll-free: 1-888-UTAH MAP website: http://mapstore.utah.gov email: geostore@utah.gov THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copper Mine Downloaded by [North Carolina State University] at 23:01 15 March 2015 SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH...COPPER MINE is an open-pit copper mine located within the Big Indian mining district in San Juan County...County, Utah, approximately 33 miles northwest of Monticello and about the same distance southeast of Moab...Moab. The mine has been a noted source of exceptionally fine specimens of azurite rosettes and clusters...Blue Grotto prospect. Again in 1988 and 1989 in a mining operation located on the same vein on the Nevada |  | | 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...from vein) Augite Chlorite, calcite, epidote, pyrite Argillization Orthoc1ase, andesine Kaolinite |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | abnormalamountsof selenium. The selenium content of the pyrite, marcasite, and chalcociteis much greater than...maximum amount of Se substituting for S in the pyrite structurewas found to be 3 percentby weight. Ferroselite...equalto or lessthan 10,000the deposit containing pyrite and/ormarcasite maybe of hydrothermal origin. Applyingthisconcept...centrifuged in bromoformto removethe lighter gangue. For pyrite and marcasitefurther purificationof the concentratewas...treatedwith warm hydrofluoricacid. Tests have shownthat pyrite and marcasiteare unharmed by warm hydrochloricand |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | No. 5 Mi Vida Prospect'A PorphyryCopper-TypeDepositin NorthwesternArgentina Abstract Mi Vida is a porphyry...biotitic-sericiticalterationphaseaccompanied by pyrite- chalcopyrite-bornite-molybdenite-magnetite mineralization...e-rhodochrosite-native sulfur. It is concluded that Mi Vida is, perhaps,an exampleof a depositmidway betweenthe... dwaters lie at the T•s ,reportdescribes the Mi Vida deposit,a very 4,500-m summi.tof Cerro Negro. The...to the end of 1972by CompafiiaMinera CitiesSerMi Vida is in the Sierras Pampeanasgeol. ogical viceArgentinaS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hermosa Formation (Pennsylvanian).--The Bald Eagle mine is one of severalcontiguousuranium-vanadium minesin...Cane Springs Canyonabout 10 milessouthwestof Moab, Utah. Bleachingof the red sandstoneaccompanies the uranium...abundantlimoniteand pyrite, is found in the Coconinosandstoneat the Orphan Lode mine, which is about 1...the Monument No. 2 mine in Monument Valley, 20 miles southeastof Mexican Hat, Utah. Immediately belowthe...Big Indian Wash, about 32 miles southeastof Moab, Utah. On the Big Buck claims the fluviatile Cutler formation |  | | Thesis/Dissertation | | URAHIUM-VANADIUM DEPOSITS OF LONG PARK MONTROSE COUNTY, COLORADO By JAMES S. HASTINGS ProQuest N um...Colorado Plateau............... 31 6. Present-day mining operations in Long Park.... 45 7. Lithologie...... First National Bank mine 51 9. A "socket" type roll in the Virgin mine ..... 52 10, Isopach map...the Paradox salt anticline, in western Montrose County, south western Colorado. The area is acceaslhTe...Paradox anticline in the northwest part of Montrose County, southwestern Colorado, Township 47 N., Range 17 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minedsincethe early nineteenhundreds. During theseearly mining operationsrelativelylittle attentionwaspaidto the...literature (1).2 Throughoutnearly fifty yearsof mining,the mineraluraninitewent unnoticed. Early operations...discoveries were madealmostsimultaneously in White Canyon, Utah (2), Placerville,Colorado(3), andGrants,New Mexico...Asphal.V Pyrite sulf. -- 1. 2. 3. 4. Grey Dawn, La Sal Creek, Colo. Yellow Cat District, Utah Corvusitc...Corvusitc mine, Beaver Creek Mesa, Utah Grants, N. Mex., Several mines Morrison Morrison Morrison Todilto |  | | Report (issue) | | 41 73.75 9.84 100.00 (1) La Sal No. 2 mine, Colorado, USA; H2 O from loss on ignition, contains admixed...deposits. Association: matter. Uraninite, thorite, pyrite, marcasite, roscoelite, clay minerals, amorphous...the USA, in the La Sal No. 2 mine, Beaver Mesa, Gateway district, Mesa Co., and in the Peanut mine, Montrose...Co., New Mexico; in the Mi Vida, Homestake, and other mines, San Juan Co., Utah. From WÄolsendorf, Bavaria;...Geevor mine, St. Just, the South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannel, and the Roskrow United mine, Ponsansooth |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VOL 43, JANUARY_FEBRUARY TEMPLE MOUNTAIN, 1958 UTAH Paur F. Knnn eNo P. K. HaurrroN, Columbia Uniaersity...ABSTRACT chrome mica-clay occurs at Temple Mountain, utah in association with uranium mineralization. It contains...Chrome micaclay as it occurs at Temple l\{ountain, Utah and Placerville, Colorado is herein identified as...significant alteration product at Temple lVlountain, Utah. Field relations suggest precipitation from ascending...Frc. 1. Chrome mica-clay zone, Temple Mountain, Utah. Mica-clay is distributed in and near fractures |  | | 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 . . . . . . . . ...radium; thus outcrops of radioactive ores rich in pyrite that are weathered may be leached selectively of...Pyrochlorc-microlite, apatite, zirkelite, crandalJite Pyrochlore-mi cro]j te Uraninite, zircon Uraninite Uraninite, fergusonite |  | | 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 (issue) | | and gas exploration and production. 1 Supervisory mining methods research engineer. 2 Computer programmer...programmer. Both authors are with the Denver Mining Research Center, Bureau of Mines, Denver, Colo. 3Underlined...of successes to failures for past performance in mining exploration that it is necessary to turn to the...mineral exploration. The analogy between the oil and mining indus tries is fairly good because they are both...hidden targets. The analogy may not hold as well for mining exploration wherein a company is attempting to |  | | 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...material, and pyrite, impregnating sandstone and replacing wood, at 9 mines in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico...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 |  | | 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 and Clear Creek Counties...pitchblende deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W. Adams and Frederick Stugard...pitchblende-bearing veins at Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, by George W. Walker and Frank W. Osterwald...---Uranium in the fluorspar deposits of the Thomas Range, Utah, by Mortimer H. Staatz and Frank W. Osterwald__________ |
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