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Carnotite from
Buckhorn, Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA


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 Buckhorn, Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:513619
Long-form Identifier:1:3:513619:3
GUID (UUID V4):f45249b5-10b2-41b6-9b57-f15a05a43c42
Nearest other occurrences of Carnotite
2.1km (1.3 miles) Lucky Strike 1 & 2, Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Dixie No. 3, Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Dixie No. 2, Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Morning Star (Moonlight; November), Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Unknown Vanadium - Uranium (MRDS - 10078627), Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Unknown Vanadium - Uranium (MRDS - 10078628), Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Bradford No. 5 Mine, Bradford Canyon Group, Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Lucky Strike, Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) R and Double H, Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) Sally No. 1 (Bradford Number Four), Montezuma Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
References
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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...VALLEY DISTRICT COTTONWOOD AND BUTLER WASH AREAS MONTEZUMA CANYON DISTRICT SEVEN-MILE CANYON AREA ORE
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)
periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll in the 1950 IS. Since I ts meager start...uranium-vanadium ores, prIncipally uranlnlte and carnotite, occur In sandstones of the Salt Wash Member of...Tallahassee Creek distrIct in Fremont County. Uranium, recoverable by solution mining of Upper Cretaceous...evaluated In Weld County. VBlntype uran I urn occurrence 5 are typ I fled in Je f farson County by the Schwartzwal...occurrences In the state, with cross-Indexes by county, host rock, and the special categoriesof "Front
Report (volume)
Suboffice, Richfield, Utah SF Geological Survey office, Room 724, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, Calif...Lake City, Utah SLA Atomic Energy Commission, Salt Lake Exploration Branch, Salt Lake City, Utah T Arizona...Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. U University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah W Geological Survey office, S. 157 Howard...Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah: TEI-287, Jan. 11, 1954. GJ, SL. Fischer...exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953. D, GJ. Hinrichs
Report (volume)
location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...__________ Beidellite______ _,______________ Carnotite ________ ·-----------Cebollite______________________...documented summary of the beginning of Colorado mining history. Part of his summary is given here in the...had been recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed...however, because it contains lists of the mines and mining districts that were active at the time in Clear
Report (issue)
Office, Room 504 Federal Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. T ·Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona...Idaho. SF· Geological Survey, 102 Old Mint Building, San Fransisco, Calif. Bates, C. E., Photogeologic map... Stinking Spring Creek-13 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah: TEM-397, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, D, GJ. -~=---=-=---=Photogeologic... Stinking Spring Creek-14 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah: TEM-394, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, D, GJ. Becraft...Comet area, Jefferson City quadrangle, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEI-282, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, W, B. Cathcart
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...Localities are listed by mine name and the mining district, as shown on a map by Shoemaker and Luedke
Report (issue)
58(10)0 Locality unspecified [Bull Pen Canyon, Colorado, USA]. Chemistry: V2 O5 MgO CaO H2 O insol....(1–2) Bull Pen Canyon, Colorado, USA. (3) CaV2 O6 2H2 O. Occurrence: In veinlets in carnotite-bearing sandstone...(Bull Pen Canyon, Colorado, USA). Association: Rossite, carnotite, gypsum (Bull Pen Canyon, Colorado...Colorado, USA). Distribution: In the USA, on M.E. O’Neil’s [Buckhorn] claim, Bull Pen Canyon, Slick Rock district...district, San Miguel Co., and in Paradox Valley, Montrose Co., Colorado; along Spring Creek, Brushy Basin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 The Arrowhead Prospect Slick Rock, San Miguel County, Colorado Figure 1. Locality map by William...stating that they were discovered in the “Bull Pen Canyon area. The type locality for these species is the...prospect tunnel in the carnotite-bearing Morrison Formation . . . near the Colorado-Utah boundary, approximately...5 mi southeast of the Summit Point Post Office, Utah.” (Foshag and Hess [1927] are cited as the source...locality is on the west edge of the Slick Rock mining district, only about 60 miles from my then-current residence
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...Report ____________ ___._ Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey.... Utah Geological Society, Guidebook...Guidebook to the Geology of Utah __..______._.______ Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook Miscellaneous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...Mountains), NE of Albuquerque: schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena...Hell Canyon subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache...N. of Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite
Report (volume)
most important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico. Since World...important discoveries are the deposits at Marysvale, Utah; the Schwartzwalder (Ralston Creek) and Los Ochos...Ochos mines, Colorado; the Early Day and Buckhorn claims, Nevada; the Midnite and Daybreak mines, Washington;...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as
Report (volume)
member.___________________________________ Westwater Canyon member___________________________ Brushy Basin...member of the Morrison formation.___ Westwater Canyon member of the Morrison formation- __-____-_____-__...the Morrison formation. 29. Recapture, Westwater Canyon, and Brushy Basin members of the Morrison formation...formation. Till TABLE CONTENTS 30. Burro Canyon and Cedar Mountain formations. 31. Dakota, Mesaverde,...Arizona and New Mexico, and the San Rafael Swell area in east-central Utah. The distribution of chromium
Report (issue)
028(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Yellow Cat Wash, Utah, USA; rehydrated from metarossite. 3.860 (100), 6.636...100.64 100.00 18.09 23.24 (1) Bull Pen Canyon, Colorado, USA; corresponds to Ca1.01 V1.98 O6 • 3.85H2...Occurrence: In veinlets in carnotite-bearing sandstone (Bull Pen Canyon, Colorado, USA). Association: Metarossite...Metarossite, carnotite, gypsum (Bull Pen Canyon, Colorado, USA); huemulite, hummerite, thenardite, gypsum...epsomite (Malargüe district, Argentina). Distribution: In the USA, on M.E. O’Neil’s [Buckhorn] claim, Bull
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah...................................................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
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to 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 of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish... Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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____________________________________ _ History of mining and production ________________ _ General description...States. FIGURE 1. Map showing location of uranium-mining districts in West-Central United States-------------------------2...outcrop of the Coconino Sandstone in the Grand Canyon area, Arizona ___ --------- ______ --------- ________...positions and shapes of sandstone pipes in the Grand Canyon area, Arizona ___________ -------------· ·---------...in 1874 at Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), Carbon County, Pa. ('Genth, 1875, p. 144B). In 1898 a deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in northwestern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, USA Stephen B. Castor ) , Christopher D. Henry NeÕada...School of Mines, Mail Stop 178, Reno, NV 89557, USA Received 14 June 1999; accepted 24 September 1999...material, and pyrite. Deposits in the Lakeview U district, Oregon are hosted by weakly peraluminous rhyolite...southeastern Oregon ŽFig. 1; Table 1.. Only the Lakeview district, Oregon had significant production, about 224...prospects in volcanic rocks, Nevada and Oregon, USA Production and grade: % U3 O 8 Resource: kg U3 O
Report (issue)
predecessor organization, the Manhattan Engineer District ; and, to a lesser extent, by staff members of...United States. The pre-1940 history of uranium mining and geology is concerned largely with veins in...in New Mexico; in Big Indian Wash and White Canyon, Utah; and in the Gas Hills, Wyoming. Very large deposits...Sierra Ancha region, Arizona ; and the Marysvale district, Utah. All the Western States, including Arizona...Nevada, New Mexico, and FRANK W. OsTERWALD Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, contain veins that have
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...Regional stratigraphic relations............49 Glen Canyon Group................................51 Definition...system............................................58 San Rafael group.............................................................................82 Burro Canyon Formation................................82 Distribution
Report (issue)
Copies of this report can be purchased from: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey Box 25046, Mail Stop...through 1989. These publications are indexed by county, technical content, geohydrologic unit, and selected...are referenced in indented sub-indexes under county, descriptor, and geohydrologic-unit entries in...Management, Craig District Office 455 Emerson St. Craig, CO 81625 (303) 824-8261 District Geologist Water...Aquifer-test data: P Drill-stem-test data: P Craig district (Craig-KremmlingMeeker area). U.S. Bureau of
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...Chinle Formation ______________________ _ Glen Canyon Group (lower part) ________ _ Wingate Sandstone...Triassic(?) Series ____ .. _______________ _ Glen Canyon Group (middle part) _______ _ Kayenta Formation...) and Jurassic Systems _________________ _ Glen Canyon Group (upper part) ____________ _ Navajo Sandstone
Report (issue)
AND OIL AND GAS PROSPECTS OF PART OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL, UTAH By JAMES GILLULY INTRODUCTION Purpose...general geologic features of part of the San Rafael Swell, Utah, with especial reference to its oil and...oil and gas than other structural features. The San Rafael Swell is a feature of this type, and the public...of the area. The San Rafael Swell lies in Emery County and northern Wayne County, Utah. The name was doubtless...geologic work in this region has dealt with the San Rafael Swell as a whole only casually or in reconnaissance
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through the Mojave desert to Inyo county, southern Nevada and southern Utah, and Arizona, on sandy mesas,... ranging into the desert areas of eastern San Diego county and on to the edge of the Colorado desert...the lower ones dark blue or purple. In the Grand Canyon and adjacent regions the flowers are a lighter...Benson, Arizona. Sept. 8-9—Second annual Indian Fair, San Carlos, Arizona. Sept. 8-9-10-11—Southwest New Mexico...celebration, Brigham City, Utah. Sept. 9-10—Tooele Tooele, Utah. County Fair, Sept. 15—Indian races
Report (volume)
Resources 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...WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS, INCLUDING MUDDY CREEK, CRACK CANYON, SAN RAFAEL REEF, MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, AND SIDS MOUNTAIN...MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS, EMERY COUNTY, UTAH Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite image (band 7, mid...reflectance) of the San Rafael Swell, Utah, taken at noon from 438 mi altitude on Feb. 1, 1989. The San Rafael Swell
 
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