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Pitchblende from
McLean mine, Ray Point Mining District, Live Oak County, Texas, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Uraninite var: Pitchblende
Formula:UO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pitchblende data
Locality Data:Click here to view McLean mine, Ray Point Mining District, Live Oak County, Texas, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:600723
Long-form Identifier:1:3:600723:2
GUID (UUID V4):03b36c92-13a0-463e-a942-2df0c689a680
Nearest other occurrences of Pitchblende
46.3km (28.8 miles) โ“˜Nuhn Mine (Lyssy; Gembler; Korzekwa; Climax), Tordilla Hill prospects (Boso lease; Nuhn lease), Karnes Uranium Mining District, Karnes County, Texas, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SedimentaryUraniumDeposit, Live Oak County, Texas BRENDAJ. BOMBER, Conoco Inc., P.O. Box 2197, Houston, Texas 77252 ERNEST...normalfaultin the MioceneOakvillesandstone of Live OakCounty,Texas,havebeen studiedfor uraniumabundance, distribution...10 m fromthe fault.Theoremineralisamorphous pitchblende andexhibits botryoidal morphology. The microscopic... THE Ray Point district, Live Oak County, Texas, et al., 1983). This studyibcuseson the McLean 5 open-pitmine... milesin length(AdamsandSmith,1981). Hostrocks McLean 5 is the basal sandstone of the Oakville Forare
Report (issue)
Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Mining Engineers of AIME. in Vail, Colo., on August 25-27...Belt Pi ateauxli ??^.yG rants . ^ -v Mi neral Texas Gulf Coast/88^ 500 Miles -I 800 Kilometers Figure...vertical permeability barrier in a uranium mine in Karnes County, Tex. Composition The final class of improtant...from barren sandstone on the left in a south Texas uranium mine. Note the accumulation of dark organic matter...principles will apply. Texas There are two major groups of uranium deposits in Texas: those in Eocene sediments
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IsotopeSystematics of the Felder Uranium Deposit, South Texas K. R. LUDWIG, M. B. GOLDHABER,R. L. RIโ€ขYNOLDS,AND...Sandstone.The Felder and nearby,geologicallysimilar, McLean open pit minesare closeto or are intersected by...Oakvillefault (GoldMcLean 5 mine, like ore in the now-inactive McLean 1 mine, is rich in molybdenumand...tongueof the roll front exposedin 4B of the Felder mine is pyrite, with bulk sulfurisotopiccompositions...formed during mineralization. zonethat bisectsthe McLean 5 pit. SamplesA4 to A8 The bulk sulfur isotopiccompositions
Book
individual deposits or districts. (in brackets country, district, deposit reviewed): Adamek P. (Scandinavia), Adams...Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Coste A. (Limousin, France), Cuney M. (granites...Grauch R (western USA), Gautier A. (breccia pipe deposits, USA), Halladay Ch.R (eastern USA), Harshman E.N...N. (Wyoming Basins, USA), Hruby J. (CSFR), Kolb S. (Bavaria, W-Germany), Krol W. (Eastern Europe), Matos... N.M., USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranium deposits of the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA M. Z. Abzalov* and O. Paulson The Great Divide basin...in the southern part of the state of Wyoming in USA. Wyoming is the second largest uranium province in...Wyoming is a second largest uranium province in the USA after the Colorado Plateau (Dahlkamp, 1993). Uranium...and therefore the uranium mineralisation in the district belongs to the distinctive class of the Phanerozoic...public announcements of companies operating in the district. Regional geology The Great Divide basin represents
Report (volume)
Geographical Journal. Montreal Canadian Inst, Mining ana Metallurgy irans. canaยซuin mst.mte ยป* ยปn=iยปK...Jour. Canadian Mining Journal, Canadian Min. Met. Bull. Gardenvale, Quebec. Canadian Mining and Metallurgical...Journal. Montreal. Eng. Min. Jour. Engineering and Mining Journal. New York. Engineering and Science. Pasadena...Lancaster, Pa. Field & Lab. Field & Laboratory. Dallas, Texas. Fieldiana'; Botany. Chicago. Fieldiana; Geology...Fondren Science Ser. Fondren Science Series. Dallas, Texas. Frontiers. Philadelphia. Ga. Geol. Survey Bull
Report (volume)
Marquette County, Michigan, by R. C. Vickers. --(G) Wall-rock control of certain pitchblende deposits...deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W. Adams and Frederick Stugard, Jr_________________________...uranium deposits in the Red Desert, SweBtwater County, Wyoming, by Donald G. Wyant, William N. Sharp...in oolitic limestone near I /Tayoworth, Johnson County, Wyoming, by R. R. Guilinger and P. K. Theobald...(L) Uranium and copper deposits, Coyote district, Mora County, New Mexico, by C. M. Tschanz_________.
Book (edition)
Spring in Co"lorado Magazine. Tabor's Matchless Mine and Lusty Leadville: "Seventh in her series of Bancroft...regardless of your age." Rene Coquoz in The Chaffee County R.epublican. Trail Ridge Country: ''This may rank...City, The Brown Palace in Denver, Tabor's Matchless Mine and Lusty Leadville, Augusta Tabor: Her Side of...ยท-ยทยท-ยท-ยทยท--ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท---ยท-ยทยทยทยทยท--ยท--ยท11 Lost Pitchblende Mine -ยท--ยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยท13 Grand...ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท--ยท-ยทยทยท-ยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยท15 Lost Mine of Big Baldy ยทยท--ยทยท--ยทยท----ยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยท17 Lost Mine of Lost Man Gulch
Report (issue)
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...Formation, southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, USA ...................................................Creek surficial uranium deposit, Stevens County, Washington, USA ............... 241 J.K. Otton, R.A. Zielinski
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, Ala....of Milledgeville who discovered them in Baldwin County, Ga., between the State Sanitarium and Oconee River...malachite coats most of the feldspar. "From Eagle Mine, Mineral Hill Dist., Lemhi Co., Idaho."โ€”on label...41/-," long, clean and brassy. Found at Danvers, McLean Co., 111., in a real deep gravel pit. It is good...picked these up near a gravel deposit in Grant County, Indiana, near the city of Marion."โ€”on label. I
Report (volume)
Geol. Soc.-Abilene Geological Society. Abilene, Texas. Acta Crystallographica. Cambridge, England. . Ala...Washington, D. C. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Transactions. New York...Ontario. Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans.-Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions...-Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin. Montreal. Canadian Min. J our.-Canadian Mining Journal. Garden... Del. Field & Lab.-Field & Laboratory. Dallas, Texas. Fieldiana Geology. Chicago. Fieldiana Geology Mem
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..........Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William B. Phillips, Austin. Vermont...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (volume)
California. Economic geology. Chromite, El Dorado County: Cater, F. W., Jr. Healdsburg quadrangle: Gealey...W. K. Mercur~ยท, New Almaden mines, Santa Clara County: Bailey, E. H. San Francisco Bay counties: Bowen...Bowen, 0. E , Jr., 3 Mineral resources, Fresno County: Logan, C. A. Geologic maps. Bitterwater Creโ‚ฌk area:...Cretaceous : SchoellhamPr, .J. E. Rincon pegmatite district: Hanley, J. B. Cambrian. Maryland, Sugarloaf Mtn...Washington. A. I. M. E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Transactions. New York
Report (volume)
the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson... Landform interpretation, stereoSearch for new mining districts: Nolan, T. B., 1. pairs: Powers, W. E...Pub. Co. Texas, Tordilla Hill area, color: Shale nomenclature: Clark, T. H. ,6. South Texas Geol. Soc...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...limestone: Lamar, Shotts, R. C., 5. J. E., 11. Gold, mining districts: Pallister, Trace elements and potash
Report (volume)
I.M.E., Mining Geology Geophysics Div. Ann. Mtg., Min. Br. Abs.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical...Metallurgical Engineers, Mining, Geology,. and Geophysics Division Annual Meeting, Mining Branch Abstracts....New York. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers Transactions...Alberta. Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans.-Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions...-Canadian Mining Journal. Gardenvale, Quebec. Canadian Min. Metall. Bull.-Canadian Mining and Metallurgical
Book (edition)
Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
using 0.02โ€“0.04mg microsamples of uraninite, pitchblende, and coffinite, which were locally extracted...which is twice as low as for the deposits with pitchblendedominated ores. Our study pro vided the first...from the early growth zones of 4โ€“5 mm thick pitchblende spherulitic crusts is isotopically heavier (by...between pitchblende and coffinite overgrowths. The uranium isotopic composition of late pitchblende gen...that of early pitchblende phases. The character of uranium isotope distribution in pitchblende aggregates
Book (edition)
his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and...Copper-Related Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and
Journal (issue)
ยทยทยทยทยทยทยท-ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท 372 MARSHAL L PLAN Ams ALGERIAN MINING โ€ขยทโ€ขยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท ...................bill. But these slabs are really "pictures you can live with," and we had lived with ours too agreeably...outdoor photography, drove me from Los Angeles County via las Vegas to the locality in southwestern Utah...unimportant. I. R. Vawdry, a well-known figure of the district around St. George, came across a seam of this...risk of being overpowered by the scenery of that district. N ear, far, and at middle distance, he is conf
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................248 259 269 271 275 281 r 4 CONTENTS. Page. Texas...................................................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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
majorore-bearing units (upper graphite schists,main mine schists,and lower mine schistsII), which contain beddedcarbonates...ereessentially similarto thosein theAthabasca district of northernSaskatchewan, the primarydifference...field, are usuallyabsentin the EastAlligatorRiver district(Needhamand Stewart-Smith, 1980). However, G. S...Bedding at/dude Fla. 1. Locationmapand surfacegeology,Mine Valleyoverthe JabilukaI and II orebodies. of Jabiluka... little more than $00 m exposedin the immediate mine area, althoughsomereconnaissance has been done along
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Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - โ€ข Vll...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART
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men, adds to the picture. The operations of large mining companies in developing base metals deposits is...progress made, despite untoward conditions, in the mining industry at Yellowknife and else- Once enterprise...Affairs. Outstanding Factors Are: The mining of pitchblende has been extended from Port Radium to points...support. Six years ago there was a meeting of the Mine Ministers representing each of the Provinces, which...interest in the use of Canadian โ€” Gold In N.WT 4 The mining of gold in the Northwest Territories, although
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* Historical geology is treated first from the point of view of the history of the continent, and then...letโ€™s see where we stand today, and I will try to point out some signposts which may indicate what our exploration...sources of uranium the Erzebirge district in Europe, the Shinkolobwe mine in central Africa, the deposits...carnotite ores of our Colorado Plateau. The Erzgebirge district on the former GermanCzechoslovakian border was...was the original source of uranium ore. This district had enjoyed a long and illustrious history, dating
 
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