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Geology and Uranium Deposits of Monument Valley, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Geology and Uranium Deposits of Monument Valley, San Juan County, Utah

From introduction: This report contains the results of a detailed geological and uranium deposits study made of the Monument Valley.
Date: March 1957
Creator: Lewis, Richard Quintin, Sr. & Trimble, Donald E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon Area, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Geology of the Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon Area, San Juan County, Utah

From abstract: The Happy Jack mine is in the White Canyon area, San Juan County, Utah. Production is from high-grade uranium deposits in the Shinarump conglomerate of Triassic age. The Shinarump strata range from 161/2 to 40 feet in thickness and the lower part of these beds fills an eastward-trending channel that is more than 750 feet wide and 10 feet deep.
Date: 1955
Creator: Trites, Albert F., Jr. & Chew, Randall T., III
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on Geologic Investigations in White Canyon, San Juan County, Utah, 1952 (open access)

Preliminary Report on Geologic Investigations in White Canyon, San Juan County, Utah, 1952

From introduction: Field work, begun in the field season of 1951, was continued by the U. S. Geological Survey in the White Canyon area, San Juan County, Utah, from May 1 to October 28, 1952, The objectives of this work were to study the habits and character of uranium deposits in the area, to determine control and guides to ore and suitable areas for physical exploration, and to map and study the ore-bearing and adjacent strata to determine the regional geologic controls and habits of the uranium deposits, The White Canyon project is part of a regional mapping program on the Colorado Plateau being conducted by the Geological Survey on behalf of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: January 1953
Creator: Trites, Albert F., Jr. & Finnell, Tommy L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Delineation of the Shinarump Pinchout by Drilling, Clay Gulch, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Delineation of the Shinarump Pinchout by Drilling, Clay Gulch, San Juan County, Utah

From abstract: The results of diamond-drill exploration for the Shinarump member of the Chinle formation in Clay Gulch, San Juan County, Utah, indicate that between Clay Gulch and exposures along Red House Cliffs, about 2 miles east, a dominantly continuous blanket of the Shinarump member wedges out northeast of a line trending N. 150 W.
Date: October 1956
Creator: Santos, Elmer S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geophysical Investigations of the Happy Jack Mine Area, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Geophysical Investigations of the Happy Jack Mine Area, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah

From abstract: These results demonstrate that the self-potential method is not satisfactory for locating and delineating sulfide-bearing uranium ore bodies under conditions similar to those in the Happy Jack area.
Date: November 1953
Creator: Jackson, W. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrical Resistivity Investigations on Holiday Mesa, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Electrical Resistivity Investigations on Holiday Mesa, San Juan County, Utah

From abstract: The purpose of this preliminary electrical resistivity investigation of Holiday Mesa, Monument Valley region, San Juan County, Utah, was to determine the feasibility of a detailed survey to delineate channels cut into the Moenkopi formation and filled with sediments of Shinarump conglomerate. These structures are in many places related to the localization of uranium ore.
Date: May 1954
Creator: Jackson, Wayne H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on Geophysical Investigations of the Deer Flat Area, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Preliminary Report on Geophysical Investigations of the Deer Flat Area, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah

From abstract: The purpose of the survey was twofold: to determine the trend of the Hideout Channel across Deer Flat and to delineate fractures cutting through the ore deposit at the Hideout mine.
Date: November 1953
Creator: Jackson, W. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seismic Investigations on Holiday Mesa, Monument Valley Area, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Seismic Investigations on Holiday Mesa, Monument Valley Area, San Juan County, Utah

From abstract: A refraction seismic survey was made on Holiday Mesa, San Juan County, Utah, between May 21 and June 11, 1954, prior to an exploratory drilling program made by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to delineate channel trends in the area.
Date: November 1955
Creator: Hazlewood, Robert M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral Resources of the Indian Creek, Bridger Jack Mesa, and Butler Wash Wilderness Study Areas, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Mineral Resources of the Indian Creek, Bridger Jack Mesa, and Butler Wash Wilderness Study Areas, San Juan County, Utah

From abstract: The Indian Creek (UT-060-164), Bridger Jack Mesa (UT-060-167), and Butler Wash (UT-060-169) Wilderness Study Areas are located in San Juan County, southeastern Utah. Inferred subeconomic resources of sandstone and sand and gravel exist within all three wilderness study areas, but because of their abundance throughout the region, their distance from current markets, and their lack of unique properties, these materials have no current likelihood for development.
Date: 1989
Creator: Patterson, Charles G.; Toth, Margo I. & Case, James E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral Resources of the Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah (open access)

Mineral Resources of the Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah

Abstract: The Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area (UT-060-140A) consists of 12,635 acres in Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah. The study area has inferred subeconomic resources of potash and halite in the subsurface, and sandstone on the surface. The study area has high potential for undiscovered resources of oil and gas, low potential for undiscovered uranium, copper, vanadium, gold, silver, other metals, and geothermal energy, and unknown potential for the rare-earth mineral, braitschite. There is no resource potential for potash or halite (beyond the previously mentioned inferred resources) or for coal.
Date: 1988
Creator: Patterson, Charles G.; Toth, Margo I. & Case, James E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Monument Valley-Navajo Mountain Region, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Geology of the Monument Valley-Navajo Mountain Region, San Juan County, Utah

From abstract: The Monument Valley-Navajo Mountain region is part of the Colorado Plateau and includes about 1,100 square miles in San Juan County, southeastern Utah, lying between the San Juan and Colorado Rivers on the north and the Utah-Arizona State line on the south. Included in the region are Navajo Mountain, the Rainbow Natural Bridge, and a part of the picturesque Monument Valley.
Date: 1936
Creator: Baker, Arthur A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on Geologic Studies in the Red House Cliffs Area, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Preliminary Report on Geologic Studies in the Red House Cliffs Area, San Juan County, Utah

From introduction: The main objectives of the Red House Cliffs project are to appraise the uranium possibilities of the area, to determine the areal distribution and character of the ore-bearing Shinarump conglomerate and to prepare a geologic map of the area. The purpose of this preliminary report on the Red House Cliffs project is to summarize results of the field work done from July 6, 1952, to October 31, 1952, and to present plans for future work on the project. This work was done on behalf of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: December 1952
Creator: Mullens, Thomas E. & Hubbard, Harold A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on the Geology and Uranium Deposits of South Elk Ridge, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Preliminary Report on the Geology and Uranium Deposits of South Elk Ridge, San Juan County, Utah

From abstract: Elk Ridge is in southeastern Utah in the central part of San Juan County. It forms a conspicuous ridge on the north end of the Monument upwarp. During the summer of 1953 field work was largely restricted to South Elk Ridge, that part of Elk Ridge which is south of The Notch. Permian and Triassic sedimentary rocks crop out in the area and Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks are exposed east of the area.
Date: June 1954
Creator: Lewis, Richard Quintin & Krummel, William J., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Radioactive Material in the Shinarump Conglomerate at Balanced Rock Anticline, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Reconnaissance for Radioactive Material in the Shinarump Conglomerate at Balanced Rock Anticline, San Juan County, Utah

Abstract: A reconnaissance for radioactive minerals in the Shinarump conglomerate of Triassic age exposed north of the San Juan River at Balanced Rock anticline was made in July 1953. The purpose of the reconnaissance was to search for any exposed uranium minerals and to determine the favorability of the Shinarump for accumulation of uranium-ore deposits. No uranium minerals or places of abnormally high radioactivity were observed. However, nine exposed channels at the base of the Shinarump conglomerate and other channels, probably present where the base of the Shinarump is concealed, indicate the Shinarump may be favorable for uranium-ore deposits.
Date: June 1955
Creator: Mullens, Thomas E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on the Geology of the Tiger (Hideout) Claim, White Canyon Area, San Juan County, Utah, with Recommendations for Exploration for Geologic Information (open access)

Preliminary Report on the Geology of the Tiger (Hideout) Claim, White Canyon Area, San Juan County, Utah, with Recommendations for Exploration for Geologic Information

From introduction: The purpose of the mapping was to study the habits of the uranium minerals with relation to the geologic features of the White Canyon area, The work has been done by the U. S. Geological Survey on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission. The Tiger claim is recommended for exploration by diamond drilling to obtain geologic information on the trend, length, depth, and width of the scour channel, and the relationship of uranium and copper minerals to the Shinarump-filled channel and to fractures.
Date: October 1952
Creator: Finnell, Tommy L.; Renzetti, B. L. & Trites, Albert F., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characteristics of Suspended Sediment in the San Juan River Near Bluff, Utah (open access)

Characteristics of Suspended Sediment in the San Juan River Near Bluff, Utah

From purpose and scope: In 1980, collection of suspended-sediment records was terminated at station 09379500. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the records that were collected and to describe suspended-sediment characteristics in the San Juan River near Bluff based on those records.
Date: 1982
Creator: Thompson, Kendall R. & Mundorff, J. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance of the Geohydrology of the Moab-Monticello Area Western Paradox Basin, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah (open access)

Reconnaissance of the Geohydrology of the Moab-Monticello Area Western Paradox Basin, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah

From introduction: The purpose of this report is to define surface-water and ground-water hydrology of the Moab-Monticello area in sufficient detail to be part of the data base to determine the feasibility of storing nuclear waste in salt deposits associated with salt anticlines. The investigation primarily used existing data and reports, with minor supplementation from reconnaissance inventories and measurements.
Date: 1983
Creator: Weir, J. E., Jr.; Maxfield, E. Blair & Hart, I. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The San Juan Country: A Geographic and Geologic Reconnaissance of Southeastern Utah (open access)

The San Juan Country: A Geographic and Geologic Reconnaissance of Southeastern Utah

From abstract: The San Juan country includes an area of about 3,800 square miles east of the Colorado River in San Juan County, southeastern Utah. This paper is based on reconnaissance geographic and geologic surveys made in 1910, 1915, 1925, and 1927-29.
Date: 1938
Creator: Gregory, Herbert E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Second Occurrence of Bayleyite in the United States (open access)

Second Occurrence of Bayleyite in the United States

Abstract: "The mineral bayleyite was first described in 1951 from a mine in Yavapai County, Ariz. This report describes bayleyite from the Hideout No. 1 mine, San Juan County, Utah, together with its associated minerals and mineralogic properties."
Date: July 1952
Creator: Stern, T. W. & Weeks, Alice Dowse
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report on Botanical Prospecting for Uranium in the Shinarump Conglomerate at Deer Flat, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Interim Report on Botanical Prospecting for Uranium in the Shinarump Conglomerate at Deer Flat, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah

Report discussing a study in which the plant analysis method of botanical prospecting for concealed uranium deposits was employed in the Deer Flat area, White Canyon district, San Juan County, Utah. The study took place from May to July, 1953.
Date: September 1955
Creator: Froelich, A. J. & Kleinhampl, F. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Elk Ridge-White Canyon Channel System, San Juan County, Utah: Its Effect on Uranium Distribution (open access)

The Elk Ridge-White Canyon Channel System, San Juan County, Utah: Its Effect on Uranium Distribution

The following report covers the study of the area described in this report that is part of the White Canyon mining district, San Juan County, Utah. Upon this investigation, uranium deposits were discovered and analyzed.
Date: September 1957
Creator: Johnson, Henry S., Jr. & Thordarson, William
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineralogy of the Uranium Deposit at the Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Mineralogy of the Uranium Deposit at the Happy Jack Mine, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah

Report discussing the mineralogy of the large uranium deposit at the Happy Jack mine. The deposit is located in beds of the Triassic Shinarump conglomerate that that fill a channel cut into the Moenkopi formation.
Date: December 1955
Creator: Trites, A. F., Jr.; Chew, R. T., III & Lovering, T. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Red House Cliffs Area, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Geology of the Red House Cliffs Area, San Juan County, Utah

Report discussing the geology of the Red House Cliffs area, which comprises 296 square miles of canyon and plateau country in southwestern San Juan County, Utah.
Date: March 1955
Creator: Mullens, Thomas E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral Resources of the Mancos Mesa Wilderness Study Area, San Juan County, Utah (open access)

Mineral Resources of the Mancos Mesa Wilderness Study Area, San Juan County, Utah

This report analyzes the Mancos Mesa Wilderness Study Area in San Juan County that contains low mineral resource potential for other metals, coal, and geothermal energy.
Date: 1989
Creator: Poole, Forrest G.; Desborough, George A.; Barton, Harlan N.; Hanna, William F.; Lee, Keenan & Kness, Richard F.
System: The UNT Digital Library