Preliminary Reconnaissance Work in the Rattlesnake Area, Apache County, Arizona (open access)

Preliminary Reconnaissance Work in the Rattlesnake Area, Apache County, Arizona

From introduction: The Bluff-Salt Wash contact was mapped on aerial photographs. Mines and prospects were also plotted on the photos. The mines and prospects were studied and a brief description of the mineralization and its occurrence was written. These field notes, which will be given to Hatfield and party, contain data on the presence of carbon and fossil logs, lithology of the gangue rock, sedimentary structures, etc. Regional structure and evidence for igneous activity were also noted.
Date: September 5, 1952
Creator: Hill, John F. & Blagbrough, John W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Structure Map, King Tutt Mesa]

Structural map of the King Tutt Mesa, East Carrizo District, in New Mexico produced for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's mining operations. Scale 1:24,000
Date: September 20, 1951
Creator: King, John W.
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Uranium Deposits of the Lukachukai Mountains Area Apache County, Arizona (open access)

Geology of the Uranium Deposits of the Lukachukai Mountains Area Apache County, Arizona

Abstract: In a study of the comparative importance of sedimentary and tectonic ore controls and in search of data bearing on the origin of the deposits, ten mines in the Lukachukai Mountains, Apache County, Arizona were examined in detail. All commercial deposits in the area are in the Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation of Jurassic age. The ore bodies are elongate and horizontally lenticular in shape and consist of one or more ore pockets surrounded or separated by protore. The composite length of ore bodies consisting of two or more ore pockets separated by subore grade material ranges up to 1,100 feet; individual ore pockets range up to 350 feet in length. Elongation is usually at least three times the width and is parallel to paleostream depositional trends measured in and near the ore bodies. Claystone and/or siltstone units nearly always underlie and frequently overlie the host sandstone units. Ore occurs most frequently in trough-type, cross-stratified sandstone which fills scours and channels in the underlying claystone units. Lithofacies maps and mine mapping show that ore bodies are restricted to areas of rapid lateral color change which in general are also areas of rapid change in the ratio of …
Date: September 1958
Creator: Nestler, Ronald K. & Chenoweth, William L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Results of Diamond Drilling Mesas 1, 2, 3, and 4, Lukachukai Mountains, Northeastern Arizona (open access)

Results of Diamond Drilling Mesas 1, 2, 3, and 4, Lukachukai Mountains, Northeastern Arizona

From purpose and scope: Diamond drill exploration of the Lukachukai district was undertaken to find minable bodies of uranium ore and to determine whether sufficient reserves were present to warrant construction of a local mill. A minimum of 30,000 feet and a maximum of 50,000 feet of drilling were assigned to block out ore in the discovery area, Mesa I (pl. 1.). It was anticipated that some of the footage might be used to test Mesa II should the area become accessible. With access to Mesas II and IV subsequently provided by roads constructed by F. A. Sitton, Inc., and access to Mesa III furnished by a road constructed by the Atomic Energy Commission, the area available for drilling was eventually increased by some three and a half times. With no increase in allotted footage, the hole density was correspondingly decreased,
Date: September 18, 1951
Creator: Stafford, Howard S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library