Carnotite-Bearing Sandstone in Cedar Canyon, Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota (open access)

Carnotite-Bearing Sandstone in Cedar Canyon, Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota

From abstract: Carnotite-bearing sandstone and claystone have been found in the Chadron formation of the White River group of Oligocene age in the southern part of the Slim Buttes area, Harding County, S. Dak. The carnotite is an efflorescent yellow coating on lenticular silicified sandstone. Locally, the mineralized sandstone contains 0.23 percent uranium. The uranium and vanadium ions are believed to have been derived from the overlying mildly radioactive tuffaceous rocks of the Arikaree formation of Miocene age. Analyses of water from 26 springs issuing from the Chadron and Arikaree formations along the margins of Slim Buttes show uranium contents of as much as 200 parts per billion. Meteoric water percolating through tuffaceous rocks is thought to have brought uranium and other ions into environments in the Chadron formation that were physically and chemically favorable for the deposition of carnotite.
Date: 1955
Creator: Gill, James R. & Moore, George William
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carnotite-Bearing Sandstone in Cedar Canyon, Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota (open access)

Carnotite-Bearing Sandstone in Cedar Canyon, Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota

A report about carnotite-bearing sandstone and clay which has been found in the Chadron formation of the White River group of Oligocene age in the southern part of the Slim Buttes area, Harding County, S. Dakota. The mineralized sandstone contains as much as 0.23 percent uranium.
Date: February 1954
Creator: Gill, J. R. & Moore, G. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carnotite-bearing sandstone in Cedar Canyon, Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota (open access)

Carnotite-bearing sandstone in Cedar Canyon, Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota

Discussing carnotite-bearing sandstone found in Cedar Canyon, in slim buttes, Harding County, South Dakota
Date: February 1954
Creator: Gill, James R. & Moore, George William
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carnotite Deposits in Craven and Coal Canyons, Fall River County, South Dakota (open access)

Carnotite Deposits in Craven and Coal Canyons, Fall River County, South Dakota

From introduction: This report presents, in tabular form, the results of radiometric and geologic reconnaissance made in the Craven and Coal Canyon areas during the period November 27 to December 7, 1951, in accordance with plans outlined in Trace Elements Memorandum Report 152, "The carnotite prospects of the Craven Canyon area, Fall River County, South Dakota." Assay data from the claims examined by L. R. Page and J. A. Redden are not included in this report. This work was done on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: March 1952
Creator: Bales, W. E. & Erickson, Ralph Leroy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Beryl Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite, Pennington County, South Dakota (open access)

Geology and Beryl Deposits of the Peerless Pegmatite, Pennington County, South Dakota

A report about a peerless pegmatite which has been a large source of scrap mica and beryl. Feldspar, amblygonite, tantalite-columbite, and cassiterite also have been recovered.
Date: February 1955
Creator: Sheridan, Douglas M.; Stephen, Hal G.; Staatz, Mortimer H. & Norton, James J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Pegmatites of Part of the Fourmile Area, Custer County, South Dakota (open access)

Geology and Pegmatites of Part of the Fourmile Area, Custer County, South Dakota

Report discussing the descriptive geology of three new formations of metamorphic rocks and details of about 420 pegmatites in the Fourmile area of Custer County, South Dakota.
Date: March 1952
Creator: Lang, A. J., Jr. & Redden, J. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, Black Hills, South Dakota (open access)

Geology and Pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, Black Hills, South Dakota

Report discussing the geology and pegmatites of the Fourmile Quadrangle, located on the southwest side of the Black Hills uplift in Custer County, South Dakota. "This report is an abstract of a paper with the same title that is planned for publication as a Geological Survey professional paper."
Date: January 1959
Creator: Redden, Jack A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Calamity Peak Area, Custer County, South Dakota (open access)

Geology of the Calamity Peak Area, Custer County, South Dakota

Report discussing the geology of the Calamity Peak area of Custer County, South Dakota. This area "was mapped to determine the relationship between the granite-pegmatite complex and the pegmatites containing beryl and other industrial minerals."
Date: July 1954
Creator: Kupfer, Donald H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Calamity Peak area, Custer County, South Dakota (open access)

Geology of the Calamity Peak area, Custer County, South Dakota

A report discussing and area of 2.5 square miles along the southwest border of the pre-Cambrian granitic rocks complex in the pre-Cambrian core of the Harney Peak region, Black Hills, South Dakota that was mapped to determine the relationship between the granite-pegmatite complex and the pegmatites containing beryl and other industrial minerals. This investigation was part of the U.S. Geological Surveys program for the investigation of domestic beryllium resources and was carried out on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: January 14, 1955
Creator: Kupfer, Donald H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the High Climb Pegmatite, Custer County, South Dakota (open access)

Geology of the High Climb Pegmatite, Custer County, South Dakota

From abstract: The High Climb pegmatite, Custer County. S. Dak., belongs to the series of pegmatitic and granitic rocks that characterize the Harney Peak region of the southern Black Hills. It intrudes pre-CamInbriani metamorphic rocks consisting chiefly of quartz-mica schist. Along part of the pegmatite contact the country rock has been altered to a tourmaline-rich schist.
Date: 1955
Creator: Sheridan, Douglas M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the High Climb Pegmatite, Custer County, South Dakota (open access)

Geology of the High Climb Pegmatite, Custer County, South Dakota

Report discussing the geology of the High Climb Pegmatite located in Custer County, South Dakota. The main focus of this report is the zones of this area that contain "widely varied mineral assemblages."
Date: December 1953
Creator: Sheridan, Douglas M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification and Occurrence of Uranium and Vanadium Minerals From the Colorado Plateaus (open access)

Identification and Occurrence of Uranium and Vanadium Minerals From the Colorado Plateaus

Abstract: "This report, designed to make available to field geologists and others information on identification and occurrence of uranium minerals of the Colorado Plateaus, contains physical properties, X-ray data, and in some instances results of chemical and spectrographic analysis of 24 uranium and 17 vanadium minerals. Also included is a table giving the optical properties of uranium minerals and a list of locations of mines from which the minerals have been identified."
Date: April 1953
Creator: Weeks, A. D. & Thompson, M. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laboratory Study of High-Grade Uranium-Bearing Lignite From Harding County, South Dakota (open access)

Laboratory Study of High-Grade Uranium-Bearing Lignite From Harding County, South Dakota

Report discussing a study of uraniferous lignite collected from three coal beds from Harding County, South Dakota. The report contains information regarding the location and geologic setting of the coal, the materials studies, coal petrologic studies, and a discussion of results.
Date: March 1956
Creator: Schopf, James M. & Gray, Ralph J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laboratory Study of Uranium-Bearing Lignite from Western North Dakota and South Dakota (open access)

Laboratory Study of Uranium-Bearing Lignite from Western North Dakota and South Dakota

From abstract: "Laboratory studies of uraniferous coal were started in connection with explorational core drilling in 1951. The cores were described and used for coal analyses, for determinations of uranium and other mineral elements, and for microscopical investigations. Results of microscopical studies are feature in this report."
Date: October 1955
Creator: Schopf, James M.; Gray, Ralph J. & Felix, Charles J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Microscopic Studies of Uraniferous Coal Deposits -- a Progress Report (open access)

Microscopic Studies of Uraniferous Coal Deposits -- a Progress Report

Report discussing a study on four beds of uranium-bearing lignite from the Slim Buttes area of Harding County, South Dakota.
Date: February 1954
Creator: Schopf, James M. & Gray, Ralph J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Occurrence of Autunite, Lawrence County, South Dakota (open access)

An Occurrence of Autunite, Lawrence County, South Dakota

From abstract: In July 1952 an occurrence of autunite was found in the northern part of the Black Hills, South Dakota, during a reconnaissance for radioactive deposits.
Date: January 1953
Creator: Vickers, Rollin C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petrographic Study of Sandstone of the Inyan Kara Group (Cretaceous) and Associated Rocks in the Black Hills, Wyoming and South Dakota (open access)

Petrographic Study of Sandstone of the Inyan Kara Group (Cretaceous) and Associated Rocks in the Black Hills, Wyoming and South Dakota

The following report covers the Petrographic study of Early Cretaceous age sandstone beds in the Fall River formation and the Fuson-Lakota formations, as well as Late Jurassic age beds in the underlying Unkpapa and Morrison formations along the western side of the Black Hills.
Date: July 1957
Creator: Bergenback, R. E.; Chisholm, W. A. & Mapel, W. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petrographic study of sandstone of the Inyan Kara group (Cretaceous) and associated rocks in the Black Hills, Wyoming and South Dakota (open access)

Petrographic study of sandstone of the Inyan Kara group (Cretaceous) and associated rocks in the Black Hills, Wyoming and South Dakota

A report regarding petrographic study of sandstone of the Inyan Kara group and associated rocks in the Black hills, Wyoming and South Dakota
Date: July 1957
Creator: Bergenback, R. E.; Chisholm, Wayne A. & Mapel, W. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radioactivity and Uranium Content of Some Cretaceous Shales, Central Great Plains (open access)

Radioactivity and Uranium Content of Some Cretaceous Shales, Central Great Plains

Report discussing a reconnaissance search for uranium in shale during August 1953 in western Nebraska and southern South Dakota. The reconnaissance was part of the U.S. Geological Survey's search for uranium in carbonaceous materials.
Date: January 1955
Creator: Tourtelot, Harry A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uraniferous Lignites in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uraniferous Lignites in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming

From introduction: This report details the reconnaissance for uraniferous lignites in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming during 1948 and 1949.
Date: July 1952
Creator: Beroni, E. P. & Bauer, Herman L., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uraniferous Lignites in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uraniferous Lignites in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming

Report discussing a geological study performed to find uraniferous lignites in North Dakota, Eastern Montana, north-central Wyoming, and northwestern South Dakota. "Deposits of uraniferous lignites were discovered at Blue Buttes, eastern Montana; and at North Cave Hills, South Cave Hills, and at Slim Buttes in northwestern South Dakota."
Date: July 1952
Creator: Beroni, Ernest P. & Bauer, Herman L., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Results of Core Drilling for Uranium-Bearing Lignite, Mendenhall Area, Harding County, South Dakota (open access)

Results of Core Drilling for Uranium-Bearing Lignite, Mendenhall Area, Harding County, South Dakota

Report discussing the results of core drilling in the Mendenhall Area of Harding County, South Dakota. This drilling was aimed at collecting data regarding uranium-bearing lignite. The report provides information regarding drilling operations, stratigraphy of the area, structure, and lignite deposits.
Date: June 1954
Creator: Gill, James R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Results of core drilling for uranium-bearing lignite, Mendenhall area, Harding County, South Dakota (open access)

Results of core drilling for uranium-bearing lignite, Mendenhall area, Harding County, South Dakota

A report regarding the results of core drilling for uranium-bearing lignite, Mendenhall area, Harding County, South Dakota. Concerns work done on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: June 1954
Creator: Gill, James R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Results of core drilling for uranium-bearing lignites in the Bar H area Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota (open access)

Results of core drilling for uranium-bearing lignites in the Bar H area Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota

A report regarding the results of core drilling for uranium-bearing lignites in the Bar H Area, Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota. This report is done on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Date: June 1953
Creator: Zeller, H. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library