| | 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 (volume) | Altered Rocks And Ore Deposits of The San Rafael Swell Emery County, Utah By C. C. HAWLEY, R. C. ROBECK, and...____________________ Altered Monitor Butte Member in the Delta mine area_ Altered Monitor Butte or Temple Mountain Members...district_____________ Descriptions of selected mines and mine areas___________________ Temple Mountain distri...Southeast flank_________________________________ Delta mine area___________________________________ Delta m...Southwest flank_______________________ 94 Little Susan mine and Ryan 101 prospect__________ Tomsich Butte area | | | Report (volume) | Uranium Resources of the San Rafael District Emery County, Utah a Regional Synthesis GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...1046-D, Uranium resources of the San Rafael district, Emery County, Utah, by H. S. Johnson, plate 2. The...276r Uranium Resources of the San Rafael District Emery County, Utah a Regional Synthesis By H. S. JOHNSON...ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 2. Map of San Rafael district, Emery County, Utah, showing uranium deposits and ground...FIGURE 12. Index map of part of Utah showing location of the San Rafael district and adjacent districts___ | | | Report (volume) | of the San Rafael Swell Wilderness Study Areas, Including Muddy Creek, Crack Canyon, San Rafael Reef,...Wilderness Study Areas, Emery County, Utah UTAH • MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL WILDERNESS STUDY...CANYON, SAN RAFAEL REEF, MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, AND SIDS MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS, EMERY COUNTY, UTAH...of the San Rafael Swell, Utah, taken at noon from 438 mi altitude on Feb. 1, 1989. The San Rafael Swell...north-northeast. It is part of the much larger San Rafael anticline. The San Rafael Reef, the steeply dipping eastern | | | 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) | 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...section of uranium-bearing pipe, Woodrow Mine 1103 27. Orphan Mine, Grand Canyon, Arizona... 1101 28. Circular...Collapse feature yielding uranium, River View Uranium Mine, Cameron, Arizona 1105 31. Volcanic centers of northeastern | | | Report (issue) | uranium-vanadium and copper deposits of the Lisbon Valley area, Utah-Colorado By Gordon W. Weir and Willard P. Puffett...Hermosa Formation in the northern part of the Moab district................................22 Regional stratigraphic.............................................58 San Rafael group...................................... 58.............................146 Big Buck (Cutler) mine..........................147 History..............prospect............................151 Small Fry mine.................................. 152 Uranium-vanadium | | | Report (volume) | ____ __ __ __________ __ ___ 125 125 History of mining and production ____ ------------------------------Geologic...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...object of this work was to aid prospectors and mining men in finding and exploiting new deposits of uranium-bearing...in the principal uranium-producing districts of Utah, Arizona, and Colorado, all in the Colorado Plateau | | | 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 | - [ URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN...AND MINING AREAS SLICK ROCK DISTRICT GYPSUM VALLEY DISTRICT BULL CANYON DISTRICT URAVAN DISTRICT GATEWAY...GATEWAY DISTRICT (EASTERN GATEWAY AREA) MC ELMO CREEK DRAINAGE AREA LA SAL CREEK AREA PARADOX DISTRICT BEAVER...VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER REGION...REGION DRY VALLEY DISTRICT COTTONWOOD AND BUTLER WASH AREAS MONTEZUMA CANYON DISTRICT SEVEN-MILE CANYON | | | 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 ..-.- ...................----------.---------Chuska Mountains, Red Rock district and Lukachukai Mountains areas (includes Mesa | | | Report (issue) | ____________________________________ _ History of mining and production ________________ _ General description...States. FIGURE 1. Map showing location of uranium-mining districts in West-Central United States-------------------------2...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...similar deposits in western Colorado and eastern Utah. From 1898 to 1924 these deposits yielded about | | | Report (issue) | precious-metal deposits in the Battle Mountain mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...rinity fault_ ______ -----------------------Lucky Strike fault_ _______ -----------------Plumas fault...tory of mining _______ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Future of the district _____ --...---Copper Canyon mine (9) - - - --------Iron Canyon mine (17)·-------------N evada mine (22) ____ ----...-------------Wilson-Independence mine (6) _______ _ Tomboy mine (4) _____ -- -----------Minnie mine (8)-------------------Independence | | | Report (issue) | N TriL SILVER REEF ULSTRICT V/AShlKGTON COUI.TI, UTAH Frederick Stugard, Jr. n U. S* Geological Survey...plat of patented claims, sheet 2, Harrisburg mining district, as supplied by Cadastral Engineer, U.S. Dept...LOCATIONS OF DRILL HOLES,SILVER REEF DISTRICT, WASHINGTON COUNTY, UTAH. __oec.u T. 4IS..R.I4W. UNITED STATES...oooo.. 00 oooo Mining since 1951 0 ...................... 16 17 17 21 Leeds uranium mine .ooo.'.« 0 o«...government exploration program0 oooo.. 80 ooo 0 Lucky Strike claims 0 0 0 0 o o 0 » o 0 o o . ....... o - | | | Report (issue) | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...to Nevada in 1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest | | | Report (issue) | Ore Deposits of the· Kokomo-Tenmile District, Colorado By M. H. BERGENDAHL and A. H. KOSCHMANN . I...652 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board .. 1\ UNITED STATES...ores-----------------------------Mine descriptions----------------------------------Wilfley-Kimberly mine __ --------________________...Consolidated mine, Eldorado and Wilson mines, Felicia Grace mine, and Champion (New York) mine----------...Workings---------------------------------Victory-Lucky Strike mine_______________________ · History and p | | | Report (issue) | 3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...percent of the state. Nevada's public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, .scenic...Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...and Grace Dyck and wus titled “The Sunrise Iron Mine near Hartville, Wyoming”; it appeared in the MaylJune...titled “The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...under the district name. District names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite | | | 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...deposit, Great Bear Lake, Canada; Gold.fields district, Canada) (Fig. '2.7). Brecciated pitchblende 111ay...and quartz (black) which also replaces core. Bigay mine, Lachaux, Auvergne, France ( X 100) ( Geffroy and...Canada and Schneeberg, Saxony. In the Blind River district of Ontario :fine-grained euheclral uraninite occurs | | | Report (volume) | ______ Mine descriptions.._________________________________________ North Fork-Shoup district, Idaho___-__...claim_________________________________________ Blackbird district, Idaho_._______________________________ Calera..._____-_ Forney district, Idaho________________________________________ Singiser mine._______________..._______________________________________ Birch Creek district, Idaho__-_______._______________________-__ Scott mine...prospect-_______----_-_-__________-_________Melrose district, Montana______________________________________ | | | Book | Grandview Mine, in a photo taken by Arion (John R. Putnam) around 1900. The Last Chance Mine dump can...Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, photo no. 8596. © Copyright 1997...of scores of people in libraries, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History; Peter historical societies...Ohlman, and County Public Library; Nancy Caudill, Librarian at the staff of the Yavapai County Recorder... Long Beach; Norma Cochran, Librarian, Mohave County Richard Quartaroli, and Paul Martin. Historical | | | Report (volume) | of the Permian and Jurassic rocks in southeastern Utah and adjoining areas________________-______-_--___--_-_--__-----...uranium deposits in this member in southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona. __ 506 75. Resultant-dip...associated formations were made in southeastern Utah and adjoining parts of Colorado and Arizona. Five...yellowish-gray sandstone members in southeastern Utah. The reddish siltstone members comprise the Halgaito...limestone crop out in the western part of southeastern Utah. The Coconino is laterally equivalent to part of | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | secondary phosphate minerals. Although some pegmatite mining for feldspar still continues (Jacobson 1994). the...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in...and fewer chances to obtain any. However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues...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 | | | Report (volume) | deposits occur in the south-central part of Harney County and are more than 100 miles from either Burns,...lateral variation. In the southern part of the district hematite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite, accompanied...ECONOMIC GEOLOGY From the central part of the district northward, primary cinnabar increases in relation...other sulfldes until, at the northern end of the district, it is the only ore mineral. The total production...Mountains extend for about 90 miles across Harney County in southeast Oregon, stretching from near the Oregon-Nevada | | | 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...Jurassic System _______________________________ _ San Rafael Group__________________________ _ Entrada Sandstone...deposits ________________________ ----------History of mining in the La Sal quadrangle _______ _ Distribution..._______________ _ Angle mine ____________________ -----------Black Hat mine ___________________________ |
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