Mineralogic Study of Some Jurassic and Cretaceous Claystones and Siltstones From Western Colorado and Eastern Utah (open access)

Mineralogic Study of Some Jurassic and Cretaceous Claystones and Siltstones From Western Colorado and Eastern Utah

Report discussing a study of the mineralogy of various Jurassic and Cretaceous claystones and siltstones of Colorado and Utah. The study was aimed at determining which minerals characterize fine sediments which include important uraniferous strata.
Date: February 1953
Creator: Weeks, Alice Dowse
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of the Mineralogy of the Colorado Plateau Uranium Ores (open access)

Summary of the Mineralogy of the Colorado Plateau Uranium Ores

Report summarizing information regarding the mineralogy of uranium ores of the Colorado Plateau. The report includes sections on classification, mineralogy of the primary unoxidized ores, oxidation sequence and mineralogy of vanadiferous uranium ores, mineralogy of oxidized nonvanadiferous uranium ores, relation of oxidation to water saturation of ore, relative stability and size of oxidized deposits, secondary enrichment, and time and depth of oxidation.
Date: February 1956
Creator: Weeks, A. D.; Coleman, R. G. & Thompson, M. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distribution and Thickness of Salt in the Paradox Basin of Southwestern Colorado and Southeastern Utah, A Preliminary Report (open access)

Distribution and Thickness of Salt in the Paradox Basin of Southwestern Colorado and Southeastern Utah, A Preliminary Report

The following report covers investigation work done on the distribution of thick deposits of salt that had occurred in the Paradox member of the Hermosa formation of Pennsylvanian age in an area nearly 12,000 square miles of southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah.
Date: February 1957
Creator: Baltz, Elmer H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Thomas Range Fluorite District, Juab County, Utah (open access)

Geology of the Thomas Range Fluorite District, Juab County, Utah

From scope of report: "The fluorite district in the western part of the Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, is one f the newest mining districts in western United States; since 1950 it has been the largest producer of fluorite west of the Mississippi River. The present report covers the geology of the entire fluorite producing area, and supplements an earlier report...on the individual mining properties."
Date: February 1955
Creator: Staatz, Mortimer H. & Osterwald, Frank W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rabbittite, a New Uranyl Carbonate From Utah (open access)

Rabbittite, a New Uranyl Carbonate From Utah

Report discussing the investigation of rabbittite, a hydrated calcium magnesium uranyl carbonate found in a mine of the San Rafael district of Emery County, Utah, in July, 1952. Information regarding rabbittite's occurrence, physical/optical properties, chemical composition, and X-ray diffraction data are included.
Date: February 1954
Creator: Thompson, Mary E.; Weeks, Alice D. & Sherwood, Alexander M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of carnotite-bearing sandstone in the Uravan and Gateway districts, Montrose and Mesa counties, Colorado, and Grand County, Utah (open access)

Geology of carnotite-bearing sandstone in the Uravan and Gateway districts, Montrose and Mesa counties, Colorado, and Grand County, Utah

This report describes the distribution of geologic features that may be used as geologic guides to carnotite deposits, sedimentary trends of the ore-bearing sandstone, and regional structures within and adjacent to the Urvan mineral belt in the Urvan and Gateway mining districts, Montrose and Mesa Counties, Colorado.
Date: February 3, 1953
Creator: McKay, E. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Thomas Range Fluorite District, Juab County, Utah (open access)

Geology of the Thomas Range Fluorite District, Juab County, Utah

A report regarding the geology of the Thomas Range Fluorite District, in Juab County, Utah. This report concerns work done on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: February 1955
Creator: Staatz, Mortimer H. & Osterwald, Frank W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distribution and thickness of salt in the Paradox basin of southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah: a preliminary report (open access)

Distribution and thickness of salt in the Paradox basin of southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah: a preliminary report

A report regarding the distribution and thickness of salt in the paradox basin of southeastern colorado and southeastern Utah. This report concerns work done on behalf of the Division of research of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: February 1957
Creator: Baltz, Elmer Harold
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Uravan Mineral Belt (open access)

The Uravan Mineral Belt

"This report briefly describes the [Urvanian Mineral Belt] and outlines the geologic evidence supporting its concept. General plans for continuous exploration of this belt, and preliminary prediction of the total amount of carnotite-bearing rocks that might be in one unexplored area, are also presented"
Date: February 1950
Creator: Fischer, R. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library