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


Locality type:Mine
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 Rifle Mine, East Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:355327
Long-form Identifier:1:3:355327:5
GUID (UUID V4):ab0c5882-c08a-4b12-8bd3-fa631ad70ce9
Nearest other occurrences of Carnotite
1.8km (1.1 miles) Garfield Mine, East Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colorado, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) Elk Van Tunnel and UV Claims, Rifle Creek Mining District, Garfield County, Colorado, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) End of Trail Mine, Rifle Creek Mining District, Garfield County, Colorado, USA
11.3km (7.1 miles) Lotti B Mine (Canary Mine), Rifle Creek Mining District, Garfield County, Colorado, USA
27.4km (17.0 miles) End of Trail No. 2 Occurrence, Rifle Creek Mining District, Garfield County, Colorado, USA
45.1km (28.0 miles) Riland uranium claim, Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, USA
48.0km (29.9 miles) S & G No. 4 Claim, Coal Creek Mining District, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, USA
49.9km (31.0 miles) Columbine Nos. 1-4 Claims, Coal Creek Mining District, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, USA
49.9km (31.0 miles) Burrell No. 5 Claim, Coal Creek Mining District, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, USA
49.9km (31.0 miles) Shylo Group (Shylo No. 1; Brown No. 2), Coal Creek Mining District, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 (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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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)
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 (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...Plateau ores. Among the most important are: (1) the carnotite and similar ores that have yielded the great bulk...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________
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)
= 93◦ 040 X-ray Powder Pattern: Hillside mine, Arizona, USA. 7.66 (10), 13.1 (9), 3.83 (6), 2.69 (5)...39.40 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Hillside mine, Arizona, USA; recalculated from an original total of 100...gypsum (Hillside mine, Arizona, USA); schröckingerite, gypsum (Hideout mine, Utah, USA); tyuyamunite,...uranophane, liebigite, carnotite (Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA). Distribution: In the USA, in Arizona, from...from the Hillside mine, about 5.5 km north of Bagdad, Eureka district, Yavapai Co., and in the Cole shaft
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).....
Report (volume)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
................................ 241 Rifle deposit,Colorado ................................................................. Uravan mineral belt, Colorado ...................................... 242 242...thesisseemto be basedon depositson the Colorado Plateau in Colorado and Utah, and a few statements refer...origin is not related to Recent events. Rifle Deposit,Colorado.--Orerolls describedby Fischer (6) in thick...Sandstoneof Jurassicand Triassic(?) ageat the Rifle mine, Colorado,are alsorelativelylarge. They may be 20
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
Report (issue)
water; as efflorescences in mines. Association: Carnotite. Distribution: At Minasragra, 46 km from Cerro...deposit, La Rioja Province, Argentina. In the USA, in Colorado, from the Hawkeye, Burro, and Deremo-Snyder...near Slick Rock, San Miguel Co.; in the Bitter Creek, Mill No. 1, and Peanut mines, Uravan district,...district, Mesa Co.; and from the Rifle mine, Garfield Co. At the Black Ape mine, Thompsons district, Grand...Crescent No. 3 claim, Crescent Creek, Garfield Co., and the Mi Vida mine, Big Indian district, San Juan
Report (volume)
of the Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah: TEI-287, Jan. 11, 1954...Results of exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953. D, GJ....N., The pegmatites of the Errington-Thiel mine, Elko County, Nevada: TEI-71, Dec. 28, 1949. Office of...Ridge, and West End claims near Clancy, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEM-31, Oct. 19, 1951. D, SL, T. (332,...Geology of the Small Horn Canyon, Daly's Spur, Cedar Creek and Dell areas, southwestern Montana: Dec. 8, 1949
Report (issue)
Photogeologic map, Stinking Spring Creek-13 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah: TEM-397, Oct. 8, 1952. SL,...-~=---=-=---=Photogeologic map, Stinking Spring Creek-14 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah: TEM-394, Oct. 8, 1952. SL...Geologic map of the Comet area, Jefferson City quadrangle, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEI-282, Oct. 8, 1952...quadrangle, Navajo Indian Reservation, San Juan County, Utah: TEM-414, Oct. 27, 1952. D, GJ, SL. _ _ _..._Photogeologic map, Agathla Peak-2 quadrangle, Navajo County, Ariz.: Jan. 9, 1953. D, GJ, T. -=-..,..,,....
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...the PlacervilleV-U deposits,but did not gene carnotite (K•(UO2)•(VO4)2.3-5H20) and metatyuydescribe the
Report (issue)
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 (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
Report (volume)
listing reports_________________ Explanation of area and subject index_.______ Acknowledgments .. __...Division of Mines Special Reports _.......__ ________ Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology...___________________ Author index ___._____________________ Area and subject index__________________ 95 95 103 ...index number. Entries in the author index and the area and subject index refer to the reports by these...for articles published in journals. EXPLANATION OF AREA AND SUBJECT INDEX In the index most of the areas
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...................................
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
Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
Report (issue)
....... Adair Park Redbeds .................... East side of Plomosa Mountains .............. Muggins............................. Cave Creek ........................ Rifle Range section ....................Artillery Formation .................... Wickenburg area ...................... Lincoln Ranch beds ........River Mesa area, Cave Creek . . . . New River ............... Cross-section Cross-section Rifle range section...embraces the Anderson Mine - Artillery region host rocks and also the New River - Cave Creek early Miocene
Report (volume)
Decem245 ber 1942) 2 (K) Tin deposits of Irish Creek, Va., by A. H. Kosch­ mann, J. J. Glass, and J....2 (L) The Three Kids manganese district, Clark County, Nev., by C. B. Hunt, V. E. McKelvey, and J. H...1942) 2 (N) Antimony deposits of the Stampede Creek area, Kan­ tishna district, Alaska, by D. E. White...349 December 1942) 2 (P) Vanadium deposits of Colorado and Utah, a prelimi­ nary report, by R. P. Fischer...1943) 2 (Q) The Coso quicksilver district, Inyo County, Calif., 395 2 by C. P. Ross and R. G. Yates (R)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and quinquivalentvanadium to form the mineral carnotite. INTRODUCTION STUDIES overthe pastseveralyearshaveshownthat...dominantareas of UDC and UTC. Increasing!CO•. extendsthe area of UTC relative to 10-4 U02++ ' uo• o• units...discussed.No new ionic complexesare introduced. Carnotite, K2(UO2)2V2Os' 1-3HO2, is the only new and we...Magin's data, though,indicatethat in pure water, carnotite slowly hydrolyzesto a colloidalhydrated uranium...and assumingthat if a•o2+•rises above 10-8'1 carnotite, rather than schoepite, will be stable (to give
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the development of ore-finding techniques on the Colorado Plateau, which is the most important uraniumproducing...mineralization, such as the Colorado Front Range, the newly discovered deposits in the Sunshine Mine in Idaho, the...the Marysvale, Utah, area, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, show promise for future production. Evaluation...pitchblende deposits of the Eldorado mine at Great Bear Lake; the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo ; and as...as a by-product of the vanadium industry of the Colorado Plateau in the United States. In the early part
 
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