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Carnotite from
Hummer Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Carnotite
Formula:K2(UO2)2(VO4)2 · 3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hummeriteⓘ5 photos of Carnotite associated with Hummerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Carnotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hummer Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:433272
Long-form Identifier:1:3:433272:5
GUID (UUID V4):258e94b8-4f69-443c-a123-ea955ae00268
Nearest other occurrences of Carnotite
0.3km (0.2 miles) ⓘJo Dandy Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) ⓘOpera Box Mine (Aztec Mine), Gypsum Valley, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) ⓘMineral Joe No. 1 Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) ⓘJ J Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) ⓘPeanut Mine, Bull Canyon, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) ⓘPeanut Group, Bull Canyon Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) ⓘGray; Black Point; San Pedro; Leader; Crescent Lucky Boy Occurrence, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
4.9km (3.1 miles) ⓘPluto Mine (Pluto - Saturn), Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) ⓘNora L. Claims 3-18, Bull Canyon Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) ⓘBall Point Claims, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Book
GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN OVERVIEW RESOURCES...RESOURCES TECTONICS GEOLOGY URAVAN MINERAL BELT LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) ORE BELT ORE BODIES URANIUM...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...MESAS LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER
Report (issue)
ÎČ = 103◩ 20(20)0 X-ray Powder Pattern: Mounana mine, Gabon. 8.79 (FFF), 6.45 (FF), 3.22 (F), 3.15 (mF)...11.65 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Gypsum Valley, Colorado, USA; recalculated to 100% after deduction of...sandstone (Colorado Plateau-type U–V deposits). Association: Hewettite, metahewettite, carnotite, steigerite...steigerite, tyuyamunite, gypsum, other vanadium oxides (Colorado Plateau deposits); hewettite, duttonite, schoderite... Arkansas, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from an unspecified locality in Gypsum Valley [later noted
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...on the Colorado Plateau sparked several periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll
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)...oxidized zones of U–V ores in Colorado Plateau-type deposits. Association: Carnotite, corvusite, uvanite, hewettite...Distribution: In the USA, from Temple Rock and Flat Top, Emery Co., and at the Cactus Rat mine group, Yellow...Yellow Cat district, 24 km southeast of Thompson, Grand Co., Utah; in Colorado, at the Small Spot, Arrowhead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metahewettite, in conglomerate, Cactus Rat mine, Yeilow Cat district, Grand Co., Utah (Harvard 98019). 2. Hewettite...(Webber. U.S.G S.). 3. Hewettite, Jo Dandy mine, Montrose Co., Colorado (MNG/4/49, U.S.G.S.; Sherwood-analyzed...Metahewettite, Montrose Co., Colorado (Harvard 95t145). 5. Metahewettite, East Paradox Valley, Montrose Co., Colorado...Colorado (Harvard 93306; type material from Dr. W. F. Foshag, U. S. National Museum). 6. Metahewettite... on gypsum with carnotite, Hummer mine, East Paradox Valley, Montrose Co., Colorado. 7. Hewettite, with
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...Gateway, Colorado, and in the Flat Top mine, Emery Co.; at the Ponto No. 3 claim, Gypsum Valley, San Miguel...the Hummer mine, Paradox Valley, Montrose Co., Colorado. In Arizona, from the Monument No. 2 mine, Monument
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________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
II. STUDIES OF SOX{E VANADIUM MINERALS OF THE COLORADO PLATEAUX nI.cr,cor,nrRoss, t/. S. GeologicalSumey...data for line-grainedvanadium minerals from the Colorado Plateau. A descriptionof the crystal habit as...I}-I2HzO], tyuyamunite Ica(uo)rv2o8. 10H2o], carnotite [Kr(uor)rVros 3Hro], and hewettite (CaVoOre9H:O)...multiplying by the proper VANADIUM MINERALS OTI THE COLORADO PLATEAU 325 value of the factor (cos 20")/(cos...Nancy G. Ryan from the Hummer mine, Jo Dandy Group, Xlontrose County, Colorado. The electron micrographs
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)
____________________________________ _ History of mining and production ________________ _ General description...States. FIGURE 1. Map showing location of uranium-mining districts in West-Central United States-------------------------2...--8. Cross sections of roll ore bodies of the Colorado Plateau region_________________________________________...size in sandstone beds of Triassic age in the Colorado Plateau region__ 10. Histogram showing the percentage...deposits in sandstone beds of Triassic age in the Colorado Plateau region_______________________________
Report (issue)
Results of investigations 18 Future work 20 The Colorado Front Range project Relation of pitchblende deposition...radioactive bebtonl-,e dikes in the Central City district, Colorado 21 21 Purpose 21 Results of inve6tittions...ctivity of flu:r..rite from the Blue Jay mine, Jamesto,m, Colorado .. Purpose . Results of investigations...F14ture work 31 71 R; ferenc.-e= 51 The Colorado Plateau carnotite project . Purpose 31 Results of investigations...petrographic dE.Fcription of the roc.ks. romosinc the Bone Valley formation. Ff'r determine the uraniim content
Book
mid-1957, of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in Wyo1ning. These...doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the...siliceous and Ruoritic types, and the oxidized Colorado Plateau deposits are desc1ibed vvith those that...origin, e.g., Blind River, \i\litwatersrand, and Colorado Plateau. The writer has attempted to present equitably.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colorado Plateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
outcrops for the 140 miles from Pulaski County to Miller County. Representative samples of the clays used...use as watch jewels. The Yogo sapphire mine in Fergus County $'as one of the few important sources of...amphibolite, and epidosite are found in the Mica Mine area oI the Van Horn Mountains, Texas. The amphibolites...synthesized as part of a mineralogic study of carnotite and tyuyamunite, Microscopic and electron-microscopic...their cations for potassium and are converted to carnotite. This entails a contraction of the interlayer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
outcrops for the 140 miles from Pulaski County to Miller County. Representative samples of the clays used...use as watch jewels. The Yogo sapphire mine in Fergus County $'as one of the few important sources of...amphibolite, and epidosite are found in the Mica Mine area oI the Van Horn Mountains, Texas. The amphibolites...synthesized as part of a mineralogic study of carnotite and tyuyamunite, Microscopic and electron-microscopic...their cations for potassium and are converted to carnotite. This entails a contraction of the interlayer
Report (volume)
the mineralogy of the uranium deposits of the Colorado Plateau, which was also started during this period...occurrence of uranium and vanadium minerals from the Colorado Plateaus," by A. D. Weeks and M. E. Thompson,...------- ____ ---------- ____________________ _ Carnotite _______________________ -------- __ ------------------..._____ ---------------------------------- _ 18. Carnotite. A, B. Typical habit -----------------------------------19...(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Possible Source for Critical Elements: The Eureka Mine Case, Castell-EstaĂł, Catalonia Montgarri Castillo-Oliver...Castell-estaĂł village (Catalonia). However, the mine was never productive and exploration was finally...[2]) have since then been described and the Eureka mine even became a type locality of new minerals (i.e...and the rapid increase of uranium mines in the Colorado Plateau playing out at the beginning of the nuclear...uranium deposit. Moreover, the access to all the mine tunnels and outcrops not only allowed good 3D sampling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
subgroups. The most common V minerals (e.g., carnotite, vanadinite, and tyuyamunite) belong to clusters...ECOLOGY surprising since V mineral species (e.g., carnotite and tyuyamunite) in U-V deposits are typically...pseudomorphs after supergene dreyerite from Lively’s Mine, Arkaroola, South Australia. Neues Jahrbuch fĂŒr...namibite from the Pala pegmatite district, San Diego Co., California, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 60, 387–388...mineral species from Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah, USA. Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1325–1331. Hazen
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
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and cost far less in maintenance than any other mine car wheel! FOR COMPLETE SANFORD-DAY IRON INFORMATION...NY a L SITS SSS aes a8 SE LK SEATTLE 1, WASH. MINING WORLD DRIFTS AND CROSSCUTS MOP POY SES U...is good news for the public in general and the mining industry in particular. The Survey, unlike aaa...when needed most. ; : C wih witth t contac’ THE MINING JOURNAL A Miller Freeman Publication Published...Conejos—by .. Muriel Sibell Wolle Mining Men and Their Activities The mining industry of British Columbia
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this explain why Hydroseals Tee IN THE MAJOR MINING PUMPS PROTECTED CENTERS OF THE WORLD Most... Most of the world’s molybdenum comes from this Colorado pit. The 12,250-ft. elevation doesn’t make the...machines like the “Caterpillar” Diesel products mining throughout the world. Tractors. Bulldozers, Motor...repiling bauxite and loading trucks for Reynolds Mining Corporation, near Hurricane Creek, Arkansas. CATERPILLAR...JJ SYD)! te up in a wooden pail. Missouri lead mine about 1890. —_—— ; eee if atOT ace | | Horse
Book (edition)
McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral
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