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
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
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
The stratigraphic and structural controls of the uranium deposits on Long Mountain, Fall River County, South Dakota (open access)

The stratigraphic and structural controls of the uranium deposits on Long Mountain, Fall River County, South Dakota

A report regarding the stratigraphic and structural controls of the uranium deposits on Long Mountain, Fall River County, South Dakota. Concerns work done on behalf of the Division of raw materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: December 1954
Creator: Braddock, William A.
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
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
Uranium in the Sharon Springs member of the Pierre shale in South Dakota and northeastern Nebraska (open access)

Uranium in the Sharon Springs member of the Pierre shale in South Dakota and northeastern Nebraska

Discussing uranium in the Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale in South Dakota and Northeastern Nebraska
Date: February 1956
Creator: Kepferle, Roy Clark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nonopaque Heavy Minerals in Sandstone of Jurassic and Cretaceous Age in the Black Hills, Wyoming and South Dakota (open access)

Nonopaque Heavy Minerals in Sandstone of Jurassic and Cretaceous Age in the Black Hills, Wyoming and South Dakota

The following report describes the examinations of the nonopague heavy minerals in sandstone found in the Black Hills in northeastern Wyoming and western South Dakota. The studies were made to determine if differences in the shapes of the grains and proportions of minerals are sufficiently distinctive to be used in subdividing and correlating formations.
Date: 1964
Creator: Mapel, W. J.; Chisholm, Wayne A. & Bergenback, Richard Edwards
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nonopaque Heavy Minerals in Sandstone of Jurassic and Cretaceous Age in the Black Hills Wyoming and South Dakota (open access)

Nonopaque Heavy Minerals in Sandstone of Jurassic and Cretaceous Age in the Black Hills Wyoming and South Dakota

A report about sandstone in the black hills of Wyoming and South Dakota. It discusses the nonopaque heavy minerals found within it.
Date: 1964
Creator: Mapel, W. J.; Chisholm, W. A. & Bergenback, R. E.
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
Uranium Deposits of the Black Hills South Dakota and Wyoming (open access)

Uranium Deposits of the Black Hills South Dakota and Wyoming

The following report covers studies and investigations of uranium deposits in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. The ore minerals include carnotite, tyuyamunite, metatyuyamunite, corvusite, rauvite, uraninite, and coffinite, as well as minor amounts of other uranium and vanadium minerals.
Date: May 1958
Creator: Robinson, C. S. & Gott, G. B.
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
Uranium in the Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale in South Dakota and Northeastern Nebraska (open access)

Uranium in the Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale in South Dakota and Northeastern Nebraska

A report about the uranium content of the Sharon Springs member of the Pierre shale in South Dakota and northeastern Nebraska.
Date: February 1956
Creator: Kepferle, Roy C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Deposits in Fall River County, South Dakota (open access)

Uranium Deposits in Fall River County, South Dakota

Report discussing uranium deposits containing carnotite in the southern Black Hills near Edgemont, Fall River County, South Dakota.
Date: February 1954
Creator: Bell, Henry, III & Bales, W. E.
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
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
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
Trace Elements Reconnaissance in South Dakota and Wyoming Preliminary Report (open access)

Trace Elements Reconnaissance in South Dakota and Wyoming Preliminary Report

The following report provides information that follows investigations of radioactivity in certain rocks found in Wyoming and South Dakota during the summer of 1945. Uranium is the principal element in this report with thorium as secondary.
Date: March 1946
Creator: Slaughter, A. L. & Nelson, John W.
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
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
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 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
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
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