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[Marysvale Region Study], Annual Report: June 30, 1953-April 1, 1954, Part 1

Description: First part of an annual report describing studies conducted by researchers at Columbia University to surveyuranium mineralization in the Marysvale, Utah region: "Part I deals with field studies and mineralogical data derived from the laboratory examination of suites collected during the previous summer" (p. 5).
Date: April 1954
Creator: Kerr, Paul F.; Lapham, Davis M.; Bodine, Marc W., Jr.; Hamilton, P. K. & Bethke, Philip Martin
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Preliminary Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Green River Basin and the Rock Springs Uplift, Sweetwater and Fremont Counties, Wyoming

Description: Abstract: Preliminary reconnaissance for uranium in the Green River Basin and the Rock Springs Uplift revealed anomalous radioactivity northwest of Oregon Buttes in the Tipton tongue of the Green River formation and in the Cathedral Bluffs tongue of the Wasatch formation, and in the Tipton tongue in Red Creek Basin.
Date: March 25, 1954
Creator: Winterhalder, E. C.
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Preliminary Report on Uranium Deposits in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming

Description: Abstract: Uranium was discovered in the Gas Hills of the Wind River Basin by Mr. Nail E. McNeice of Riverton, Wyoming while he was prospecting with a Geiger counter in September 1953. Field parties of the Atomic Energy Commission started work in the area in October 1953.
Date: October 4, 1954
Creator: Grutt, Eugene W., Jr.; Hadfield, Jonathan P., Jr. & Smith, Edward W.
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Status of ownership of part of the lands on which phosphate-bearing beds outcrop in westernmost Wyoming

Description: "This report and accompanying maps summarize the status of ownership of many phosphate bearing lands in westernmost Wyoming. Ownership categories discussed are (1) phosphate rights not owned by Federal Government, (2) phosphate rights not owned by Federal Government, and (3) ownership status uncertain."
Date: August 1954
Creator: Willey, Emerson C.; Cheney, T. M.; Peirce, H. Wesley & Grose, L. Trowbridge
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Uranium in the Mayoworth Area, Johnson County, Wyoming - A Preliminary Report

Description: Preliminary report discussing uranium that was found in the basal limestone of the Sundance formation of late Jurassic age on the east flank of the Bighorn Mountains in Johnson County, Wyoming. The report provides information regarding geographic setting, geologic setting, stratigraphy, uranium occurrence localities, and origin of uranium in the Mayoworth area.
Date: April 1954
Creator: Love, J. D.
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Uranophane at Silver Cliff Mine, Lusk, Wyoming

Description: Abstract: The uranium deposit at the Silver Cliff mine near Lusk, Wyo., consists primarily of uranophane which occurs as fracture fillings and small replacement pockets in faulted and fractured calcareous sandstone of Cambrian(?) age. The country rock in the vicinity of the mine is schist of pre-Cambrian age intruded by pegmatite dikes and is unconformably overlain by almost horizontal sandstone of Cambrian(?) age. The mine is on the southern end of the Lusk Dome, a local structure probably rel… more
Date: 1954
Creator: Wilmarth, Verl R. & Johnson, Donald H.
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