Mineral Resources of the Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah
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Abstract: The Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area (UT-060-140A) consists of 12,635 acres in Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah. The study area has inferred subeconomic resources of potash and halite in the subsurface, and sandstone on the surface. The study area has high potential for undiscovered resources of oil and gas, low potential for undiscovered uranium, copper, vanadium, gold, silver, other metals, and geothermal energy, and unknown potential for the rare-earth mineral, braitschite. …
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Date:
1988
Creator:
Patterson, Charles G.; Toth, Margo I. & Case, James E.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department