Reconnaissance for a Uranothorianite-Bearing Lode in the Vicinity of the Headwaters of the Peace River, Candle Quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska (open access)

Reconnaissance for a Uranothorianite-Bearing Lode in the Vicinity of the Headwaters of the Peace River, Candle Quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska

From abstract: Reconnaissance in 1947 found uranothorianite and gummite associated with copper sulfides, iron oxides, molybdenite, gold, silver, bismuth, and thorite in placers of a headwater tributary of the Peace River in the eastern part of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Brief radiometric reconnaissance early in the summer of 1952 failed to locate the bedrock source of the radioactive minerals at the head of the Peace River, primarily because of the shielding-effect of widespread tundra cover. The samples obtained in 1952 indicate the presence of galena, sphalerite, pyrrhotite, covellite, and fluorite in addition to the minerals reported in the results of the 1947 reconnaissance.
Date: June 1952
Creator: West, Walter S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Occurrence of Zeunerite at Brooks Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska (open access)

The Occurrence of Zeunerite at Brooks Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Abstract: Zeunerite occurs near the surface of a granite stock on the southwest flank of Brooks Mountain, Alaska. The largest deposit is at the Foggy Day prospect where zeunerite is disseminated in hematite which partially or totally fills openings and vugs in a highly oxidized lensshaped body of pegmatitic granite and to a minor extent in openings and cracks in the weathered granite enclosing the lens. Although a few specimens from the pegmatitic lens contain as high as 2.1 percent equivalent uranium, the overall average content of the lens rock is between 0.1 and 0.2 percent equivalent uranium and about 0.07 percent equivalent uranium for both the lens material and the surrounding zeunerite-bearing granite.
Date: June 1952
Creator: West, Walter S. & White, Max Gregg
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Lost River Area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Lost River Area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Abstract: Reconnaissance for uranium in the Lost River area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, during the 1951 field season revealed the presence of minor amounts of radioactive material in mineralized portions of rhyolitic dikes and in a small iron-enriched zone in limestone. The dikes contain as much as 0.01 percent equivalent uranium locally and average 00005 percent equivalent uranium. The radioactive material occurs as a secondary hematitic coating of the dike rock. The iron-enriched zone has an average content of about 0.06 percent equivalent uranium with the radioactive material occuring in limonite, hematite, goethite, and mimetite. The radioactivity of these minerals is due to the presence of uranium as an impurity. No uranium deposits of economic importance were found.
Date: June 1952
Creator: White, Max Gregg & West, Walter S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Lost River Area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Lost River Area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Report discussing reconnaissance for uranium in the Lost River area of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska during the 1951 field season. The report states that no uranium deposits of economic importance were found.
Date: June 1952
Creator: White, Max G. & West, Walter S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Occurrence of Zeunerite at Brooks Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska (open access)

The Occurrence of Zeunerite at Brooks Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Report discussing an investigation of zeunerite found at Brooks Mountains, Alaska. This zeunerite was believed to be possibly uraniferous.
Date: June 1952
Creator: West, Walter S. & White, Max G.
System: The UNT Digital Library