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Shorter Contributions to Alaskan Trace Elements Studies: 1946: Part 1: Trace Elements Investigations in the Grant Creek Area, Yukon Region, Alaska

Description: Report discussing field search of the U.S. Geological Survey. From abstract: "Field search in August 1946 failed to locate a reported occurrence of float from pitchblende veins in the Grand Creek area north of the Yukon River about 30 miles west of Tanana in central Alaska."
Date: October 4, 1949
Creator: Killeen, P. L. & White, M. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of Radioactive Equilibrium in Carnotite Ores of the Colorado Plateau

Description: Report discussing a geological study for which the objective was to determine the age of Colorado Plateau carnotite. "In addition to quantitative analyses of uranium and lead, the radium-uranium equilibrium of each sample was studied."
Date: August 1949
Creator: Stieff, L. R.; Girhard, M. N. & Stern, T. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of Mesityl Oxide to the Determination of Thorium

Description: Report discussing a study in which "thorium nitrate is quantitatively extracted by mesityl oxide from solutions saturated with aluminum nitrate even in the presence of relatively large amounts of phosphate."
Date: August 1949
Creator: Levine, Harry & Grimaldi, F. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experimental Adit in the Chattanooga Shale

Description: Report discussing an Chattanooga shale adit for laboratory test samples of rock and gaining information regarding mining conditions.
Date: March 1949
Creator: Brown, Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Determination of Phosphorous in Rocks Containing Vanadium

Description: From Abstract: "This paper describes a rapid routine procedure for the determination of phosphorous in the presence of vanadium. Vanadium is reduced with formic acid prior to precipitation of phosphorous as ammonium phosphomolybdate and the ammonium phosphomolybdate is weighed as such."
Date: July 1949
Creator: Randolph, R. B. & Grimaldi, F. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Results of Prospecting of the "Leached" Zone Over Phosphate Deposits in NW 1/4 of Sec. 9, T. 31 S., R. 25 E., Polk County, Florida

Description: Report discussing a geological examination of an area in Polk County, Florida with leached zones containing uranium. The objective of the study was to determine the advisability of making plans for stockpiling the leached zone material in this area.
Date: December 1949
Creator: Stewart, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Prospecting for Uranium with Car-Mounted Equipment

Description: A report about commercial production of rugged portable radioactivity detectors. The objective in all cases is to use the fastest and most productive method of detecting radioactive deposits in a given area.
Date: July 1949
Creator: Nelson, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Program of Study for the Carnitite Ores of the Colorado Plateau

Description: Report discussing a geological study of the mineralogy of the carnotite ores of the Colorado Plateau. The report reviews the work done during the 1948 field season and proposes work to be done during the 1949 season.
Date: March 24, 1949
Creator: Stieff, Lorin R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Staff Report on Phosphates

Description: Report discussing phosphates found in Florida and investigations of uranium in the "Western Phosphate Field," which covers an area of about 100,000 square miles in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah.
Date: June 1949
Creator: McKelvey, V. E. & Cathcart, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Preliminary Outline of Desirable Research in the Geochemistry of Uranium

Description: Report outlining fields of study for a program of research in the geochemistry of uranium. From Abstract: "Various specific topics and projects that apply to these fields of study are suggested."
Date: April 1949
Creator: Rabbitt, J. C.; Rubey, W. W.; Butler, A. P., Jr.; Lovering, T. S. & McKelvey, V. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Transmission Fluorimeter for Use in the Fluorimetric Method of Analysis for Uranium

Description: Report discussing a fluorimeter intended for use in the fluorimetric method of analysis for uranium. This particular fluorimeter measures fluorescence by transmission rather than by the usual "reflection" methods.
Date: August 1949
Creator: Fletcher, Mary H.; May, Irving & Slavin, Morris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Black Shale Investigations (Chattanooga)

Description: Report discussing an investigation of radioactive Chattanooga black shale found in east central Tennessee.
Date: March 1949
Creator: Conant, Louis C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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