From introduction: This report is a statement of progress during a six-month period for geologic investigations of radioactive deposits.

From introduction: This report is a statement of progress during a six-month period and gives the principal unclassified information developed in that period for radioactive deposits in the United States.

From introduction: This report describes the general geologic setting, the occurrences of uranium or radioactivity in the Fall Creek, Idaho area and adjacent areas, the probable nature of the mineralization and origin of the deposits, and the estimated reserves of uranium-bearing rock.

From introduction: This report details the investigations of the physical stratigraphy of the Phosphoria Formation in northwestern Wyoming.

From introduction: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the economic possibilities of radioactive lignites and to determine the geologic factors controlling the accumulation of uranium in lignite.

From abstract: The copper and uranium-vanadium deposits of the Coyote district, Mora County, N. Mex., are confined to the lower 2,000 feet of the Sangre de Cristo formation of Pennsylvanian and Permian age. A narrow belt of deposits in steeply dipping or overturned rocks extends for 7 miles along Coyote Creek south of Guadalupita. Earlier studies showed that the copper deposits contained uranium, but both the reserves and the uranium content of the copper-bearing shale are too low to permit the recovery of uranium. However, small, commercial grade uranium deposits have been discovered in sandstone.

From abstract: The uranium mineral uranocircite, a barium uranyl phosphate, occurs in a sandstone channel in the Chadron formation of Oligocene age in the White River Badlands, Pennington County, S. Dak. A vertical section of the basal 1-foot of the channel contains 0. 25 percent uranium. There are also small amounts of metatyuyamunite (?) in the upper part of a freshwater lime stone bed in the Chadron formation and carnotite in chalcedony veins in the overlying Brule formation, also of Oligocene age.

Abstract: A number of radioactivity anomalies and secondary uranium minerals have been found in the Rimini area near the northwestern margin of the Boulder batholith. Most of the anomalies are associated with chalcedonic vein zones that consist of one or more veins of cryptocrystalline and fine-grained quartz in silicified quartz monzonite and alaskite. Seventeen of the anomalies were found along veins that contain base and precious metals; nine were along veins in the vicinity of the village of Rimini from which there has been production of lead, silver, zinc, and gold.

From abstract: The Palmer area, which is on the south limb of the Marquette synclinorium, consists of a down-faulted block of pre-Cambrian sedimentary rocks about 4 miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide. The block is composed mainly of middle Huronian Ajibik quartzite and Negaunee iron-formation and upper Huronian Goodrich quartzite,. Monazite occurs in the Goodrich quartzite as rounded detrital grains concentrated mainly in the matrix of quartz pebble conglomerate which is interbedded with coarse-grained quartzite.

A report about the occurrence, distribution, and quantities of beryl and other strategic minerals in pegmatites located in the Newry Hill area, Maine.

A report about a previously published semiquantitative spectrographic method that was modified by applying microphotometric scanning of the spectrograms in such a way that the operator was free to do other work during a large part of the scanning time.

Report discussing the U.S. Geological Survey's reconnaissance for uraniferous carbonaceous materials in three areas of southern Utah: Kaiparowits Plateau, Henry Mountains, and Kolob Terrace.

Report discussing the U.S. Geological Survey's investigation of uranium occurrences, which were discovered after submission of a sample containing 0.068 percent uranium, at Clinton, New Jersey. Information produced from sampling, mapping and radioactivity testing is included.

A report about a microscopic study of black, vireous, carbonaceous material occurring in the Chattanooga shale in Tennessee and in the Cleveland member of the Ohio shale in Ohio has revealed coalified woody plant tissue.

From Abstract: "A routine method is given for the determination of potassium and sodium in siliceous, argillaceous, and phosphatic rocks using the Beckman flame photometer 10300."

Report discussing "a direct comparison of helium and lead in nonmetamict zircon crystals".

A report about eleven occurrences of uraniferous argillite in the Lockatong lithofacies and five occurrences of uraniferous sandstone in the stockton lithofacies which are both of triassic age.

A report about a new uranium mineral from the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Emery County, Utah, named abernathyite.

A report about uranium-bearing lignite beds that occur at many horizons in the Hell Creek formation of late Cretaceous age and the overlying Ludlow, Tongue River, and Sentinel Butte members of the Fort Union formation of Paleocene age.

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.

A report about a new mineral called metatyuyamunite which is a dehydration product of tyuyamunite. This mineral has been collected from more than 35 localities in the Colorado Plateaus,several localities in Fall River County, S. Dakota, and Campbell and Johnson Counties, Wyo.

This report is a statement of progress during a six-months period and gives the principal unclassified information developed in that period about investigations of radioactive materials in the United States and Alaska, and to a minor extent in foreign countries.

"The primary purpose of this report is to present data pertaining to the occurrence, distribution, and geologic environment of deposits of radioactive minerals in California. A secondary purpose is to summarize the information available on occurrences in California and to present a brief description of each radioactive locality that was known prior to 1953."

Report discussing uranium oxides, their thermodynamic relations, and how these relations connect to the oxidation states of uranium ores found at the Colorado Plateaus. This report provides information regarding thermodynamic properties of some compounds and ions of the U-O-H2O system, discussion and interpretation of thermodynamic properties, and a summary with conclusion.