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Carnotite from
Monument Valley, USA


Locality type:Valley
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 Monument Valley, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:244513
Long-form Identifier:1:3:244513:7
GUID (UUID V4):ae18424c-b9c5-4030-873d-583993c335ce
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
11.11(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Jack claim, Utah, USA; very close to fernandinite. 10.82 (100), 3.464 (18)...1.00 Total 99.90 [100.0] (1) Jack claim, Utah, USA; corresponds to (Na0.40 Ca0.32 K0.20 Fe0.20 Mg0.06... Association: Carnotite, fervanite, roscoelite, gypsum. Distribution: In the USA, in Utah, from the...No. 3 claim, Gypsum Valley, San Miguel Co., and the Hummer mine, Paradox Valley, Montrose Co., Colorado...Colorado. In Arizona, from the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley, and in the Lukachukai Mountains, Apache
Report (issue)
minerals, notably the torbernite group and tke carnotite group, dehydrate easily with resultant rise in...is present the solution will turn orange-red. Carnotite or tyuyamunite turns red-brown when a drop of...mineral turns red-brown it is a vanadate probably carnotite or tyuyamunite. This reaction is -immediate and...higher than that of the liquid, it is probably carnotite. 2. If the mineral has indices nearly equal or...affinity of vanadium for uranium tends to make carnotite or tyuyamunite the chief uranium mineral in oxidized
Report (volume)
deposits_____________________________________ ~onurnent Valley belt_-----------------------------------East ·white...underlain by the Chinle formation, are the Monument Valley belt, the east White Canyon belt, and the Moab...coffinite, and the oxidized uranium minerals, carnotite and tyuyamunite, impregnate the rocks, forming...mines, one in each of the following areas: Monument Valley, White Canyon, the Circle Cliffs, the San Rafael...County, Colo., in 1898, and in the early 1900's carnotite was discovered in Triassic rocks at Temple Mountain
Report (volume)
County, Nev.... Lander County, Nev.. ...... . Virgin Valley opal district........ Lyon County, Nev........... . Monument Valley (includes Copper Canyon, Hunts Mesa, Nokai Mesa, Hoskinninni Mesa and Monument No...No. 1, Monument No. 2, Skyline and Whirlwind mines) .. ..... Black Mesa ._...............................quadrangle, Egnar-Gypsum Valley quadrangle, Gateway area, Long Park, Paradox Valley, Pine Mountain quadrangle...Gray Dawn mine) _ .. -_ Big Indian Wash Lisbon Valley area (includes Mi Vida mine, Big Buck mine. Purple
Report (volume)
Uranium-Vanadium Ore Deposit at the Monument No. 1-Mitten No. 2 Mine, Monument Valley Navajo County, Arizona GEOLOGICAL...Uranium-Vanadium Ore Deposit at the Monument No. 1-Mitten No. 2 Mine, Monument Valley Navajo County, Arizona By...____________________________________________________ Monument No. 1 channel___________________________________...1. Geologic map and transverse sections of the Monument No. 1Mitten No. 2 mme______-_________-___.--________...Utah. 220 22. Geologic map and section of the Monument No. 1 area...... 222 23. Exposure of three lithologic
Report (issue)
Carnotite K2 (UO2 )2 (V2 O8 ) • 1−3H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...90 0.04 Total 99.77 • (1) Temple Mountain, Utah, USA. (2) K2 (UO2 )2 (V2 O8 ) 3H2 O. (2) 10.44 5.99...Distribution: Known from hundreds of localities. In the USA, in Colorado, from the Rajah mine, Roc Creek, and...district, along Paradox Valley, Bull Canyon and La Sal Creek, also Gypsum Valley, Montrose Co., the Gateway...Anderson mine, Yavapai Co., and an ore mineral in Monument Valley, Apache and Navajo Cos., Arizona. In Australia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
19, 1930, pp. 17-26. HEWETT, Donnel Foster 36. Carnotite Discovered near Aguila, Arizona. Engineering and...Journal, NEW YORK, Vol. 120, No. 1,1925, p. 19. 37. Carnotite in Southern Nevada. Engineering and Mining Journal...232-235. 38. Central Arizona Holds Deposits of Carnotite. Mining Journal, PHOENIX, Vol. 9, No. 7, 1925...1915, 49 pp. Includes references on uranium and carnotite deposits in Arizona. McKELVEY, Vincent Ellis 62...Sources of Modern Sands in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico. Journal of Geology, CHICAGO, Vol.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
productionpotential. DeChellySandstone(Permian).--Carnotite ore with associated vanadium mineralsis minedfrom...minedfrom the DeChelly sandstoneat the Monument No. 2 mine in Monument Valley, 20 miles southeastof Mexican Hat...the Oljetoh Trading Post, Utah, within the Monument Valley area, near the Arizona state line. The host...depositis on the west flank of the faulted Lisbon Valley afiticline,and the host rock is a fluvial arkosic...sandstonewith occasionalthin, gray-greenmudstonepartings. Carnotite occursbothimpregnated in the sandstone and as
Report (issue)
= n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Temple Rock, Utah, USA. 10.7 (10), 2.95 (5), 3.49 (4), 2.62 (3), 3.87 (2)...Utah, USA; recalculated after deduction of 27.06% impurities. (2) Monument No. 2 mine, Arizona, USA. (3)...Colorado Plateau-type deposits. Association: Carnotite, corvusite, uvanite, hewettite, metatorbernite...metatorbernite, tyuyamunite, gypsum. Distribution: In the USA, from Temple Rock and Flat Top, Emery Co., and at the...Paradox Valley, Montrose Co.; from the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley, Apache Co., and Monument No.
Report (issue)
11.174(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Monument No. 2 mine, Arizona, USA. 11.03 (100), 5.53 (35), 2.164 (25)... fervanite, navajoite, carnotite, tyuyamunite (Colorado Plateau deposits, USA). Distribution: From Minasragra...Pasco, Peru. In the USA, in the Jo Dandy mine, Bull Canyon district, Paradox Valley, Uravan district, Montrose...in Arizona, long fibers from the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley, also in the Carrizo and Lukachukai...Lukachukai Mountains, Apache Co., and in the Monument No. 1 and Mitten No. 2 mines, Navajo Co.; in the Gold
Report (volume)
Geology and U rani urnVanadium Deposits of the Monument Valley Area Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona By...MINERALOGY AND PARAGENESIS OF THE ORE DEPOSIT AT THE MONUMENT NO. 2 AND CATO SELLS MINES By DONALD H. JOHNSON...Mines--------------~----------------------------------------- Monument No. 2 mine_____________________________________...Geology______________________________________________ Monument No.2 channeL______________________________ Uranium...Mines-Continued • Monument No. 2 mine-Continued Mineralogy and paragenesis of the Monument No. 2 and Cato
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Grants district, New Mexico, USA. 14.88 (10), 7.47 (5), 2.702 (5), 2.788 (4), 1.667...Total 96.2 [100.1] (1) Grants district, New Mexico, USA; remnant includes CuO 0.5%, CoO 0.1%, NiO 0.1%, UO3...district, New Mexico, USA) and in sandstone (Monument No. 1 mine, Arizona, USA) in Colorado Plateau-type...New Mexico, USA); carnotite (Monument No. 1 mine, Arizona, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from an unnamed...McKinley Co., New Mexico; at the Monument No. 1 mine, Monument Valley, Navajo Co., Arizona. Name: For
Report (issue)
11.65 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Gypsum Valley, Colorado, USA; recalculated to 100% after deduction of...deposits). Association: Hewettite, metahewettite, carnotite, steigerite, tyuyamunite, gypsum, other vanadium... Arkansas, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from an unspecified locality in Gypsum Valley [later noted...Paradox Valley, and from the Fox mine, Uravan district, Montrose Co., Colorado; in the Monument No. 2 mine...mine, Monument Valley, Apache Co., Arizona; in the Gold Quarry mine, near Carlin, Maggie Creek district
Report (issue)
Newfoundland District (Newfoundland Mountains). Park Valley District (Raft River Mountains). Promontory District...(Mt. Escalante). Gold Springs District (Hamlin Valley). Iron Springs District (Iron and Granite Mountains...Belt) District (Pinto). Stateline District (Hamlin Valley). CARBON COUNTY JUAB COUNTY Tidewell and Rideout...Mountains). Osceola District (Thorpe Hills). Rush Valley (Stockton) District (W. Oquirrh Mountains). Silver...COUNTY Big Indian District (Big Indian Wash-Lisbon Valley Area). Cottonwood Canyon District (N. of Bluff)
Report (volume)
Deposits at Base of the Shinarump Conglomerate Monument Valley Arizona GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This...Deposits at Base of the Shinarump Conglomerate Monument Valley Arizona By I. J. WITKIND CONTRIBUTIONS TO...of the Monument No. 2 area, Apache County, Ariz. 6. Geologic map showing swale in the Monument No. 2 area...Ariz. FIGURT. 12. Index map of part of the Monument Valley area in the Navajo Indian Reservation, Apache...in the Monument Valley area, Arizona__________ 14. Geologic map and cross section of Monument No. 1 channel
Report (issue)
n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Hudspeth Co., Texas, USA. 10.18 (10), 5.02 (9), 3.20 (5), 2.04 (4), 6.62 (3)...Plateau-type. Association: Metatyuyamunite, carnotite, corvusite, uranophane, volborthite, gypsum. ...Fergana Valley, Alai Range, Kyrgyzstan. At West Wheal Owles, St. Just, Cornwall, England. In the USA, an...district, New Mexico; in Colorado, from Paradox Valley, Montrose Co., Calamity Creek, Mesa Co., and elsewhere;...Thompsons, Grand Co. In Arizona, at the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley, Apache Co., in the Ridenaur breccia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRUCTURAL CONTROL OF URANIUM ORE AT THE MONUMENT NO. 2 MINE, APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA 1 TOMMY L...Cutler formationof Permian age. Tyuyamunite, carnotite, becquerelite,corvusitc,hewettite, metahewettite...Survey. 26 TOMMY L. PINNELL INTRODUCTION Ta•. Monument No. 2 mine, approximately7« miles north of Dinnehotso...Junchon : Montro$ I I Durongo Kanob UTAH Monument •o No 2 M Ka )innehotso INDEX MAP OF PART...AXIS OF THE MONUMENT UPWARP,THE POSITION OF THE COMB MONOCLINE,AND LOCATION OF THE MONUMENT NO,2 MINE,APACHE
Report (volume)
Crooks Gap, Wyoming 8 Gas Hills, Wyoming 8 Lisbon Valley, Utah 9 Deposits in the Morrison Formation of the...Chunk, Pennsylvania 11 Monument Hill, Powder River Basin, Wyoming 11 Monument Valley, Arizona 11 Orphan mine...district, Oklahoma-Kansas 12 Upper Mississippi Valley Pb-Zn district, southwestern Wisconsin and adjoining...attributed to both asphalt and humic acid. In the Lisbon Valley uranium district, Utah, remote sensing of bleaching...suggested as ore-forming solutions in some Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposits (Sverjensky, 1984). Previous
Journal (issue)
Day Celebration, Bishop, California. COVER MONUMENT VALLEY, b y Hubert A. Lowman, South Gate, California...Silver City, New Mexico. Sept. 8-9-10-11— Antelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa festival, Lancaster, California... By PAUL MERCER 31 Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 32 From here a n d there on the desert Prizes...attracts. It should be taken over as a National Monument. Let us hope someone starts the ball rolling....Times-Herald a statement that the new Trona-Death Valley road is an oil surfaced highway. Such a statement
Report (issue)
water; as efflorescences in mines. Association: Carnotite. Distribution: At Minasragra, 46 km from Cerro...Urcal deposit, La Rioja Province, Argentina. In the USA, in Colorado, from the Hawkeye, Burro, and Deremo-Snyder...Juan Co., Utah. In Arizona, at the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley; in the Mesa No. 1, No. 5, and No...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 87662, 93297. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THOMAS ORE GUIDES, MONUMENT DISTRICT, ARIZONA W. MITCHAM AND CHARLES VALLEY G. EVENSEN CONTENTS...depositselsewhereon the ColoradoPlateau. •EO•O•IC S•TTING Monument Valley is on the Navajo Indian Reservationand lies...(Fig. 1], at the southern end of the Laramide (?] Monument upwarp, one of the largest and most prominent...prominentstructuralfeaturesare 170 URANIUM ORE GUIDES, MONUMENT VALLEY DISTRICT 171 Comb Ridge, which forms the...continentalorigin, have accumulated in the Monument Valley area. Only that part of the stratigraphicsection
Report (volume)
the Moab, > Monticello, White Canyon, and Monument Valley Districts . Utah and Arizona By H. S. JOHNSON...of the Moab, Monticello, White Canyon, and Monument Valley districts. 3. Isopach and facies map of the...location of Moab, Monticello, White Canyon, and Monument Valley districts____________________.._______ 2. Map...showing VjOjiUsOg ratios in ore deposits of the Monument Valley district, Utah and Arizona________________...V205 :U30g ratios in ore deposits of the Lisbon Valley area, Monticello district, Utah____________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Utah Pay Day, San Rafael Swell, Utah Monument No. 2, Monument Valley, Ariz. Horseshoe No. 1, North Cottonwood...San Rafael Swell, Utah 5.41 5.38 *Monument No. 2, Monument Valley, Ariz. Happy Jack, White Canyon, Utah...uraninite uraninite uraninite coppersulfides carnotite- "asphaltite" tyuyamunite pyrite "coffinire"3...further. Uraninite5 occursat the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument Valley, Arizona, as wood replacements....however, the final product containsconsiderable carnotite. Alteration of the uraninite in the Plateau
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diagrams of volborthite, Cu3(VOn),'3H'O, from Monument Valley, Arizona, disclose it to be monoclinic (space...specimenssince 1971. Such an examinationof volborthitefrom Monument No. I Mine, MonumentValley, Navajo County, Arizona...body, the mineral assemblage of which includes carnotite, hewettite, metatyuyamunite,rauvite, tyuyamunite...uranium-vanadium ore deposit at tbe Monument No. l-Mitten No. 2 Mine, Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona. U
Journal (issue)
Playground By GENE SEGERBLOM We Followed the Lure of Carnotite Feb. 11-13—Annual ski carnival, Williams, Arizona...HOOVER DAM AT NIGHT CALENDAR Feb. 11-12—Paradise Valley Horse Rodeo, Scottsdale, Arizona. Feb. 15-16—Mobilgas...convention, Globe. BOTANY Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 38 Feb. 23-26 — La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, annual...Here is a morning's catch of bass. Near Overton is Valley of Fire, a lost world of unusual shapes carved...Ancient Indian petroglyphs on Atlatl Rock in the Valley of Fire state park near the shores of Lake Mead
 
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