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Roscoelite from
Rifle Mine, East Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Roscoelite
Formula:K(V3+,Al)2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Roscoelite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rifle Mine, East Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:307474
Long-form Identifier:1:3:307474:9
GUID (UUID V4):9a7037e8-f95b-42c0-a886-a0ffbe029f28
Nearest other occurrences of Roscoelite
1.8km (1.1 miles) Garfield Mine, East Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colorado, USA
80.2km (49.8 miles) Horse Mountain Uranium Mines, Brush Creek Mining District, Eagle County, Colorado, USA
82.2km (51.1 miles) Lady Bell (Lady Belle; Blue-Bell; Eagled), Brush Creek Mining District, Eagle County, Colorado, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Vanadium-Uranium Deposits of the Rifle Creek Area, Garfield County, Colorado By RICHARD P. FISCHER With a...1910Vanadium-uranium deposits of the Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colorado, by Richard P. Fischer. With...ores-Colorado-Garfield Co. I. Botinelly, Theodore, 1916II. Title: Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colorado...the Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colo. 2. Fracture-pattern map of the .Rifle and Garfield mines...mines showing structure contours in the Rifle mine. 3. Map showing the trends of ore rolls and the approximate
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...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________...of the uranium deposit at the Happy Jack mine, San Juan County, Utah, by Albert F. Trites, Jr., Randall
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
authigenic, vanadiferous (>1 wt % V2Oa)illite (roscoelite), whichformsribbonsandplatesthat locallyconstitute...1990). Estimatesof the ageof ore formation on the Colorado Plateau indicate that the solution interfac.... Uraniumdepositshostedby Jurassicrockson the Colorado Plateauhavebeen dated usingU-Pb isotopesystematics...Wash Member of the JurassicMorrisonFormationin Colorado and Utah formed during the Early Cretaceous(110...is uncertain becausethe Entrada is Miguel County, Colorado,was chosenfor this investiga- coveredor missing
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formation ........................ The southwest Colorado region ............................ Silver Reef...StatesVanadiumCorporation,Mr. Frank Wilson of Naturita, Colorado,and Mr. S. G. Lasky of the United States GeologicalSurvey...time existedin the Morrison rocks" = in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Recordsplaceproductionat Silver...sandstone Placerville, Colo. (i9o9-I923) ........... Rifle, Colo. (I925-i932) ............... Estimate. 3... p. 586, x92o. 4 Henderson, C. W.: Mining in Colorado. U.S. P. 47, x926. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper x38
Report (issue)
SURVEY Papers presented April 27-28, 1977, at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden CIRCULAR 753 United...Conference was held April 27 and 28, 1977, at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden. This was the second conference...writing to Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225. Authors stationed in Reston, Virginia,...pyroxenite dikes in nepheline syenite of the Ekiek Creek pluton, western Alaska, by Alan R. Wallace and John...John W. Cady A theory for the origin of the Rifle-Garfield vanadium-uranium deposit, by C. S. Spirakis
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CIRCULAR 215 URANIUM IN THE METAUMINING DISTRICTS OF COLORADO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Douglas...215 URANIUM IN THE METAL-MINING DISTRICTS OF COLORADO By R. U. King, B. F. Leonard, F. B. Moore, and...C. URANIUM IN THE METAL-MINING DISTRICTS OF COLORADO By R. U. King, B. F. Leonard, F. B. Moore, and...showing the distribution of uranium deposits in Colorado. Relation of pitchblende deposits to bostonite...bostonite dikes in the Front Range mineral belt, Colorado .......................... Relation of pitchblende
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 936-P VANADIUM DEPOSITS OF COLORADO AND UTAH A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY RICHARD P. FISCHER...Prepared in cooperation with the STATE OF COLORADO and the COLORADO METAL MINING FUND Strategic Minerals...ILLUSTRATIONS Page Plate 53. Index map of part of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, showing the location of the...section of the Club group of mines, Montrose County, Colorado............ III 366 382 382 382 386 IV...ILLUSTRATIONS Page Figure 43. East-west cross section through the Rifle mine (after Blair Burwell).....
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from sandstone-type deposits such as those on the Colorado Plateau. In other parts of the world most uranium...Witwatersrand of South Africa and the Blind River area of Ontario, Canada, and from vein-type deposits...been from sandstone-type uranium deposits on the Colorado Plateau where the bulk of uranium ore has been...of deposits and occurrences of uranium on the Colorado Plateau. The U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin...basis of permanent value or interest. Because the Colorado Plateau is the center of the uranium mining industry
Report (volume)
Utah 5 Lance Creek, Wyoming 5 Lone Tree deposit, San Rafael Swell, Utah 5 Maybell, Colorado 5 Palangana...Limestone Member of the Wanakah Formation of the Grants area, New Mexico 6 Geology of uranium occurrences that...petroliferous materials 7 Carlsbad, New Mexico 7 Chalone Creek, California 7 Edna, California 7 Ellis, Missouri...Morrison Formation of the Grants area, New Mexico 9 Rifle Creek, Colorado 9 Shirley Basin, Wyoming 10 White...associations with petroliferous materials 10 Anderson mine, Date Creek Basin, Arizona 10 Cameron, Arizona 10 Edgemont
Report (issue)
St. Louis, Mo. International Lead Refining Co., East Chicago, Incl. Great Western Smelting & Refining...precipitation process at the copper smelter at Garfield, Utah, contain a considerable quantity of bismuth...little bismuth ore has been produced in the Deep Creek Mountains, Utah, and near Rico and Ouray, Colo....Fredericktown, Mo.; nickel-bearing veins on the east side of the Stillwater Range, 45 miles southeast...and a deposit 4 miles south of Julian, San Diego County, CaL, in connection with an amphibolite dike. A
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225 Abstract-The name volkonskoite was first...clay from the Lucky Hill pit, Candelaria mine, Mineral County, Nevada. This clay was subsequently identified...1940) in the Okhansk district, middle Kama River area, west of Perm, on the west side of the Ural Mountains...papers cited herein. Volkonskoite from the Kama area red beds, as well as other Cr-bearing smectites...Basin, the Caucasus Mountains, and the Akkerman area, are epigenetic minerals which commonly fill voids
Report (issue)
diagenesis of a tabular uranium deposit, La Sal mine, San Juan County, Utah By Robert A. Brooks and John A. Campbell...La Sal mine area, San Juan County, Utah -- 3 2.--Generalized structural map of the La Sal mine and La...La Sal Creek Mineral Belt 4 3.--Uranium and vanadium content of samples 6 4.--Heavy mineral content...diagenesis of a tabular uranium deposit, La Sal mine, San Juan County, Utah By Robert A. Brooks and John A. Campbell...Sal mine, San Juan County, Utah, occurs as a typical tabular-type uranium deposit of the Colorado Plateau
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Morrison Formationin MontezumaCanyon,San Juan County,Utah, exhibit zoning that is interpretedas a result...M onticell'o Montezuma " Canyon Area SAN o 20 JUAN COUNTY :•. 40 Miles FIG. 1. Index mapof...Formation 1 OF THE MESOZOIC CANYON ROCKS OF THE AREA Thickness in feet and member Character __ Mancos...Moaburaniumdepositin Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah (SW1/4NW1/4 sec.22,T.34S., R.24E.; for location...Blue Jay No. 3 deposit,Monument Canyon,San Juan County,Utah (NWlNE4 ß sec.20, T.37S., R.25E.; for location
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dominantareas of UDC and UTC. Increasing!CO•. extendsthe area of UTC relative to 10-4 U02++ ' uo• o• units...achievedlocally during the time of ore depositionon the Colorado Plateauand hascertainlybeenachievedin subsequent...is increasedto 10--øin Figure 13 wherea further area of solubilityis shownto occurfor a mildlyreducing...DISCUSSION WITH REFERENCE TO THE ORES OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU The portionsof Figures 12, 13 and 14... xUO•'yV20•'zH20, is fairly widespreadon the Colorado Plateau. Apparently y is somewhatgreater than
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...association of radium, uranium. and vanadIum on the Colorado Plateau sparked several periods of exploratIon
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)
mineral belt, Colorado...... 11 Sections showing depth of pitchblende deposits, Colorado ...............Juab County, Utah ......................... 15 Geologic map and section of the Burlington mine, Jamestown...Geologic maps of the Fluorine Queen property, Juab County, Utah............................ .17 Chart showing...along west face of upper cut, East Slope no. 2 uranium prospect, Piute County, Utah...... 23 Map showing........... 27 Section of cliff face, Oyler mine, Wayne County, Utah...................................
Journal (issue)
Rear-Dump Euclids are standard equipment on hundreds of mine, quarry, and construction jobs. For moving * cieles...and heat treated. Of “H” section design, they are rifle drilled to provide oil passage to the piston pin...Molybdenum Mine 9 " * is the striking setting for this new Lorain 50-1 shovel. This Climax, Colorado pit...Distributor — to boost production and cut costs in your mine or pit! THE THEW SHOVEL LORAIN, OHIO HYDRAULIC...{AVS JONAL NC-1 trucks for your large 8-wheel mine cars —— TT + A WL>) ~~Quicksiaa Shock-absorbing
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bowling alley, and dance hall. Also present were a rifle range, tennis court, horse stable, and artificial...restaurant, named the Duck Inn, was well known in the area for the specialty of the house-wild duck. About...about the area. For some unknown reason, the name Sulphur Creek, the small north-south creek draining...draining the area, was dropped from the topographic base. C. E. Wilson and his family used the property as a...through 1990. The vanadium deposits, consisting of the East Wilson pit, North Wilson pit, and T orebody (collectively
Report (issue)
Series 30 Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology, 1984-1989 Colorado Geological Survey Department of...Resources Denver, Colorado 1990 Information Series 30 Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology, 1984-1989...Institute under contract to the Colorado Geological Survey Colorado Geological Survey Department of...of Natural Resources Denver, Colorado 1990 ii FOREWORD In recognition of the need to more effectively...published literature on the state's geology, the Colorado Geological Survey is pleased to release Information
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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... columbate, and tantalate of Fe, Al, and Mn. Roscoelite, near K(V, Al) 3Si 30 10 (0H)2 __ Silicate ________...Mines and Geology, County Rept.-California Division of Mines and Geology, County Report. San Francisco
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Germany)............. German Democratic Republic (East Germany).......... Greece.........................(Malagasy or Malagasa)........................... Near East............................................... India.............................................. Far East...................................................Lake-Blind River area, Canada (average grade 0.12 percent U30s), and at the Witwatersrand basin area in the Republic...mining; and in medium-grained sandstones in the Colorado Plateau, U.S.A. (average grade 0.2 percent U30g)
Report (volume)
Distribution of Elements in Sedimentary Rocks of the Colorado Plateau A Preliminary Report GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Distribution of Elements in Sedimentary Rocks of the Colorado Plateau A Preliminary Report By WILLIAM L. NEWMAN... CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS FIGURES 42-68. Maps of the Colorado Plateau showing outcrop pattern and other features...copper in sandstone____________ 72. Map of the Colorado Plateau showing areas of sandstone of the Shinarump...________________________ 73. Index map of the Colorado Plateau showing sources of samples of sandstone
 
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