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Geology and Mineralogy of the J.J. Mine, Jo Dandy Area, Montrose County, Colorado

Description: Introduction: Detailed geologic mine mapping and sampling of the J.J. mine in the Jo dandy area, Montrose County, Colo., were undertaken to study a vanadium-uranium ore body in terms of the physical relationships of ore to host rock, the paragenetic sequence of ore minerals, and the sequential development of an oxidized suite of ore minerals from unoxidized ore.
Date: September 1955
Creator: Elston, Donald Parker & Botinelly, Theodore
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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.
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Carnotite Resources of San Miguel Bench, Montrose County, Colorado

Description: Abstract: San Miguel bench includes about 4 square miles in the southern part of T. 48 N., R. 17 W., New Mexico principal meridian, Montrose County, Colorado. Production of carnotite ore from the area has been about 15, 000 short tons having an estimated average graderof 0. 31 percent U3O8,and 1. 6 percent V2 05 Nearly all of the carnotite deposits occur in a single-continuous sandstone bed near the top of the Salt Wash member of the Jurassic Morrison formation. These deposits consist chiefly o… more
Date: September 1955
Creator: Alvord, Donald C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Carnotite Resources of San Miguel Bench, Montrose County, Colorado

Description: Report discussing the San Miguel bench and the production of carnotite from deposits consisting of sandstone with uranium- and vanadium-bearing minerals.
Date: September 1955
Creator: Alvord, Donald C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interim report on exploration in the La Sal Creek area, Paradox District, Montrose County, Colorado and San Juan County, Utah

Description: This report summarizes the results of this exploration and outlines the general plan for additional exploration, all of which is being done on behalf of the division of raw Materials of the US Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: February 4, 1955
Creator: Carter, William Douglas; Warman, James C. & Gualtieri, J. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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