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| URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN OVERVIEW...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 |
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| . 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...on the Colorado Plateau sparked several periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| PISTOLS i !?' A J.-. N ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by ...present authentic infor mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive...United States Geological Survey in 1912. Plan. “Mining Districts and Mineral Resources of Nevada”, as...parts:—one on mining districts and the other on mineral resources. The section on mining districts is...but gives more extended descriptions and includes mining as well as geological information. The map which |
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| ___ __ _____ Relation of oxidized zinc deposits to rock types____________________ Types of supergene zinc...___________ ____ __ ________ ____ Silver Islet district ___________________ ~_____________________ Cache..._______________________________ American Fork district (Alta area)___________________________ Alpine...______ Redmond district __________________________________ _:________ Millard County _______________..._______________ .:._______________________________ Black Rock area___________________________________________ Gordon |
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| T. A. Steven (U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado) (CoorMany of the preliminary results of this...P. D. Rowley, (U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado) Geology of the Sevier Plateau, Black Mountains...N. Machette, (U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado), Geology of the Beaver basin. products" or the...W. R. Miller (U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado) (general supervisor), Diverse geochemical studies...J. B. McHugh (U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado), Water geochemistry, analytical chemistry. and |
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| Geology of the Abajo Mountains Area San Juan County, Utah GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared... Geology of the Abajo Mountains Area San Juan County, Utah By IRVING J. WITKIND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Commission A study of a major laccolithic center on the Colorado Plateau UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...1917Geology of the Abajo Mountains area, San Juan County, Utah. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964...107-108. 1. Geology Utah San Juan Co. San Juan County, Utah. (Series) I. Title: Abajo Mountains area |
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| WEST-CENTRAL ARIZONA AND PART OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL...west-central Arizona and part of San Bernardino County, California ; en. E) (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin...resources E6 Introduction E6 Previous investigations E7 Mining activity E7 Mineralized areas E7 Manganese E7 Uranium...Assessment of mineral resource potential E10 Geology E10 Rock units E10 Structural geology E12 Brecciation and...inside the study area, adjacent to several important mining districts. Common sand and gravel in the study |
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| and Zinc Deposits in Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) District, Nevada By CLAUDE C. ALBRITTON, ]R., ARTHUR RICHARDS...-------------------Geology of the Goodsprings district, by Claude C. Albritton, Jr_________ Introduc...column__________________ Position of ore bodies within mine areas______________________ Yellow Pine and Prairie...Summary_________________________________________________ Potosi mine, by Arthur Richards, Arnold L. Brokaw, and David...Phoenix____________________________________________________ Rock units____________________________________________________ |
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| EUGENE L. CONROTTO 24 . . . . ARTIFACTS: The Arrowhead Hobby By JORDAN E. DETZER 34 BACK COVER: Wild...Reviews: 29 Southwest News Briefs: 30 Hard Rock Shorty: 32 Mining News: 33 Amateur Gem Cutter: 36 Gem-Mineral...bears that nickname with honor. Despite the Storey County break- in the desert canyons to notify the through...thirsty. If you are low look for standing water in rock cavities. quate maps and a compass, and tell some-...looked over the maze hannesburg - Red Mountain mining of machinery and lumber for a long area, he has |
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| 3-6—Onion Days Rodeo, Payson, Utah. Sept. 5-7—Rodeo and County Fair, Socorro, New Mexico. Sept. 5-7—'49 Show and...climb of Mt. Jefferson, Nev. Sept. 5-7—Old Time Mining Celebration and Hermit's Convention, Randsburg... Lancaster. California. Sept. 12-14 — Valencia County Fair. Belen, New Mexico. Sept. 11-13 — Navajo Tribal...Tribal Fair, Tribal Fairgrounds, Window Rock, Arizona. Sept. 12-20 — Utah State Fair, Salt Lake City...Day, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Sept. 16-19 — Curry County Fair, Clovis. New Mexico. Sept. 17-19—Lion's Club |
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| Stem • Perfect Balance Locates through dirt, wood, rock, sand, water & etc. WILL DETECT: Penny — 5 inches...Did Death Valley Scotty actually have a "secret mine" or did the hundreds of thousands of dollars he...Panamint Gold, Goller's Golden Nuggets and Gold of Colorado Canyon, are explored in detail in this new edition... Interstate 80 (half way between Fort Lupton, Colorado 80621, Dept. D2 S.F.-Sacramento), Route 1, Box...for long, long life. Will polish up to 3 pounds of rock in each barrel. • Positive sealing screw type lid |
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| an in a recent letter he writes: "Bastnaand old mine tunnel located west of Tucson. There were also calcite...much of the barite with cal- tain Pass, Calif. The mine is about 3 miles cite and galena." David P. Record...Mart, 4400 Mission Road, road leads to the mine. The mine consists of one shaft. Some bastnasite has...crystals. It is an attractive speciassaying. This mine will be a potential men. source of cerium metal...March-April, 1950, manganese mine near Glen wood, Pike ROCKS AND MINERALS, p. 123. County, Arkansas. Mr. Young |
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| and their geological framework in Canada and the USA, with analogies from other parts of the world. The...models for major types of uranium deposits in the USA (abstract only) ...................................... 171 D.R. Boyle The Green Mountain uranium district, Central Wyoming: type locality of solution front...Morrison Formation, southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, USA ...................................sandstone-hosted uranium-vanadium deposits in the Colorado Plateau: evidence from fluid inclusions ..... |
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| Deposits Of the Lawson-DumontFall River District Clear Creek County Colorado By C. C. HAWLEY and FRANK BAKER...of the general geology and ore deposits of the district which forms the northwestern part of the important...pitchblende_______________________ Hematite and "limonite"___________________________ Other ore mineral...section of the Lawson-Dumont-Fall River district, Clear County, Colo. 2. ~ap showing major faults (veins)...(veins) of the Lawson-DumontFall River district projected to a horizontal plane having an elevation of 8 |
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| 2 inch pebble was found near Church Rock on the island. COLORADO — A letter dated Jan. 14, 1952, from... Richard M. Pearl, Dept. of Geology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo., had this line: "I've...fluorite from a deposit near Ouray, Ouray Co., Colorado." It is a nice pale greenish specimen but unfortunately...occur at shipping many tons and the mine shows the old Lane bismuth mine, at Monroe, promise of being another...(fluorDELAWARE — Gray cleavable masses ite) from this mine is of all colors and of orthoclase have been found |
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| YSea asc. ces csccecyseeses rs ce ceee ce sce eye ROCK AND MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS ...........ceceeseeceveeee...ois a)Rock” Limestone .. alg elaeeie Onyx and Deposits ...vaneless eset es aoe ree aerial MISCELLANEOUS ROCK STRUCTURES (2020 0c5200 2. ones ene Concretions...minerals. Descriptions and photographs of Missouri rock and mineral occurrences are provided, and essential...does separate them and of rock, in definition. For our purpose, a rock is an aggregate of mineral |
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| and leave scars that “heal.” A rock balanced precariously atop another rock will not remain for long; eventually...for heat and pressure that altered the preexisting rock. The boundaries may even be fuzzy or under dispute...there is a rockhounding title in the FalconGuide Rock-hounding series for all the important states or...common minerals and common metals important for mining. The common minerals form most of our rocks and...metals section are generally valuable, come from mining districts, and are usually either attractive or |
 | Wallace, A.R., Ludington, Steve, Lovering, T.G., Campbell, D.L., Case, J.E., Grauch, V.J.S., Knepper, D.H. (1988) Leadville 1 degree x 2 degrees Quadrangle, Colorado; a pre-assessment. Open-File Report Vol. 1988 (88-74) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr8874 | Report (issue) |
| GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Leadville I°x2° quadrangle, Colorado: a pre-assessment by Alan R. Wallace , Steve...standards and stratigraphic nomenclature. Denver, Colorado -Menlo Park, California CONTENTS Page Preface............ 18 19 20 TABLES Table 1. 2. 3. 4. Mining districts in the Leadville quadrangle................................. Base- and precious-metal mining areas......................... 4 11 16 17 PREFACE...the Leadville I°x2° quadrangle in west-central Colorado under the Conterminous United States Mineral Resource |
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| ROCK HUNTING IN WYOMING By MURRAY KANE 2913 E. 8th St., National City, Calif. My son and I recently returned...returned from a rock hunting trip in Wyoming. I thought my fellow readers of R&M would like some information...There is also some bituminous shale and nodules of limonite and chert. of Middle Cambrian age, on Mt. Wapta...powder, but the imprint of the bones remains on the rock. You will find your best specimens at the main quarry... My son, Sam, picked up a beautiful, perfect arrowhead made of a reddish jasper in a creek bed near there |
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| lava flow Consists of gray, strongly porphyritic rock whose phenocrysts include large sanidine (10 mm)...and plagioclase. Dark vitrophyre and lithophysal rock with fewer phenocrysts occurs along the faulted...minor biotite, constituting 15-25 percent of the rock. Groundmass is commonly blotchy due to late-stage...plagioclase, and smaller altered mica and ubiquitous limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite. Gray to greenish-gray...and subhorizontal columnar jointing. Most of the rock has 10-15 percent phenocrysts of plagioclase, biotite |
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| of the quadrangle. This bend was named the Black Rock Offset by Crosby (1973, p. 31-32), who ascribed...western part of the quadrangle where the contrasting rock types are interlayered (Abbott and others, 1983)...quadrangle. A 1 Ma mafic flow east of the Black Rock siding on the Union Pacific Railroad was erupted...sequence along Highway 257 about 7 km north of Black Rock (Izett and Wilcox, 1982). By middle Pleistocene...however, the lake no longer existed in the Black Rock area where a 1-Ma basalt lava flow (Best and others |
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| te. ois,8 Coe MEU nde NACL NV Hig IOVS Wort ie ROCK AND Page 5 WEEE te wlcd aieidslsclabeneaaeascaessdecss...Uranium +Mineral sic o's asco cuaicho as aversi's ROCK credo toads we oe Oe eee Ve hod COA Oe ea wed...minerals. Descriptions and photographs of Missouri rock and mineral occurrences are provided, and essential...identification no differentiation is made between mineral and rock, although the professional geologist does separate...separate them in definition. For our purpose, a rock is an aggregate of mineral particles, but a mineral is |
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| southern Lower Michigan (Bellevue Township in Eaton County). Map courtesy of Jack Wolford. ALLAN R. BLASKE...Michigan 48837 allan.blaske@gmail.com Bellevue Eaton County Michigan Figure 2. Location of quarries in the...crystals from the limestone quarries in Monroe County, which are among the finest found in North America...located near the village of Bellevue, in Eaton County, contain a nice suite of collectible minerals including...Bellevue is in the southwestern corner of Eaton County, Michigan, approximately 30 miles southwest of |
