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Criteria for Outlining Areas Favorable for Uranium Deposits in Parts of Colorado and Utah

Description: Abstract: Most of the uranium deposits in the Uravan and Gateway mining districts are in the persistent upper sandstone stratum of the Salt Wash member of the Morrison formation. Areas in which this stratum is predominantly lenticular have been differentiated from areas in which the stratum is predominantly nonlenticular. The most favorable ground for uranium deposits is in areas of lenticular sandstone where the stratum is underlain by continuous altered greenish-gray mudstone. Ore is localize… more
Date: 1955
Creator: McKay, E. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geology of Carnotite-Bearing Sandstone in the Uravan and Gateway Districts, Montrose and Mesa Counties, Colorado, and Grand County, Utah

Description: From Introduction: "In the Uravan and Gateway districts, the general character of the bedding in the ore-bearing sandstone and amount of alteration in associated mudstones, and the relation of these to each other, are the features most useful as large-scale guides. This report describes these features and their distribution, as well as some other significant geologic characteristics of the ore-bearing sandstone."
Date: January 1953
Creator: McKay, E. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Uranium deposits of the Uravan Mineral Belt

Description: A report regarding uranium deposits of the Urvan Mineral belt.
Date: June 1958
Creator: Wood, H. B. & Lekas, M. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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