Color copies of photomicrograph figures that accompany a report studying uranium in granites in the southwestern United States.

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines describing the methods and equipment developed at the oil-shale mine near Rifle, Colorado. This report includes photographs and illustrations documenting this equipment.

From introduction: The purpose of this work was to determine the distribution and reserves of pitchblende in the veins. These particular mines were selected because the other mines that had produced pitchblende in the east were either inaccessible, or accessible under such adverse conditions as to make detailed mapping impracticable.

From introduction: The results of U. S. Geological Survey exploration in the Legin group area are summarized briefly in this preliminary report. No additional drilling is planned. The Legin group area comprising nine Government-owned claims, three privately owned claims and adjoining public land, is in San Miguel County, Colo. The area explored includes parts of secs. 28 and 29, T. 43 N., R. 19 W., New Mexico principal meridian (fig. 1).

This report is an issue of the original draft copy of the "Interim Staff Report on Uranium Exploration on the Colorado Plateau", dated June 1951. The original draft copy was only recently located and is being published at this time because of the interest in the contained historical content.

From introduction: The general distribution of known deposits of vanadium-bearing sandstone, which also contain some uranium and radium, is shown in figure 1 1/ and Exhibit A, plate 53. 2/ During 1939-41 the Geological Survey made detailed geological studies of these deposits in the Uravan district, Montrose County, Colorado, as well as preliminary examinations in other parts of the Colorado Plateau vanadium region. In 1942 detailed geological studies were made o the deposits in the Egnar-Slick Rock district, San Miguel Co., Colo.; 3/ the Carrizo Moungains district, Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona and New Mexico; 4/ the Placerville district, San Miguel County, Colo. 5/ and the Monticello district, San Juan Co., Utah. 6/ Since May 3, 1943, the Gelogical Survey has guided the Bureau of Mines program of prospecting these deposits in parts of Colorado and Utah.

A report pertaining to an exploration by the U.S. Geologic Survey in the southern part of the Uravan district for uranium-vanadium deposits. The explored area is in Montrose County, Colorado. The rocks exposed in the area are gently dripping marine and terrestial formations ranging in age from late Paleozoic to late Mesozoic.

A report about the vanadium-uranium deposit at the Rifle and Garfield mines which lies in the Wingate sandstone and the overlying Entrada sandstone.

Report discussing "field and laboratory studies of ground-water conditions in the carnotite-bearing Morrison formation in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah" with the objective of determining "possible relations between ground waters and the carnotite deposits."

Abstract: During parts of July, August, and September 1951, a reconnaissance was conducted in parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho in search of new deposits of uranium-bearing carbonaceous rocks. One significant uranium occurrence was found, the Fall Creek deposit, Bonneville County, Idaho. Several additional localities were discovered that contain uranium in concentrations many times that normally found in carbonaceous rocks.

Report discussing the geology and ore deposits of the Placerville area of San Miguel County, Colorado. "This report is an abstract of a paper with the same title that is planned for publication as a Geological Survey bulletin."

The following report covers a chemical study that was made of the Salt Wash member of the Morrison formation of Jurassic age in the Jo Dandy area, Montrose County, Colorado in 1954. The chemical study was made to investigate the distribution of elements in the host rocks with emphasis on the pattern of variation as related to the position of known ore bodies, and to determine average concentrations of some of the elements in the major rock types.

The following report covers a broad-scale study of the distribution of elements in the rocks and ores of the Colorado Plateau. Discussed here are the results from semiquantitative spectrographic analyses of approximately 800 samples of rocks and ores that form the principal starting point for the discussion. This paper examines the relevance of the results of the study of the distribution of elements to the special problem of the source or sources of the elements contained in unusual abundance in the sandstone-type uranium ores.

The following report covers notes on the Moenkopi formation of Triassic age that is widely exposed in the salt anticline region in the southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. Within this report is the mapping of four members of contrasting lithology in the Moenkopi in the salt anticline region.

From introduction: This report describes work done in the Trinidad, Colorado, National Topographic Map Series (NTMS) quadrangle (US Geological Survey, 1955) by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) as part of the nationwide Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR).

From summary: This data release presents analytical results obtained for a pilot study being done in portions of the Sterling and Greeley, Colorado, National Topographic Map Series (NTMS) quadrangles (Fig. 1) by the University of Colorado under contract to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) as part of the nationwide Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR).

From abstract: "This study used Landsat images and small-scale color and color-infrared photographs for selected geologic, hydrologic, and land-use applications within the Yampa River Basin" in Colorado and Wyoming. It includes maps, tables, and a glossary.

"This report describes the geologic and hydrologic characteristics of the ore-bearing sandstone as determined in the core samples from three diamond drill holes on calamity Mesa, Mesa County, Colorado, and correlates these data with localized gamma-ray activity detected in three drill holes."

A preliminary statement regarding Reserve Block 2 of Club Mesa, located in Montrose County, Colorado.

A preliminary reserve statement regarding Reserve Block A of the Spring Creek Mesa Area, located in Montrose County, Colorado.

Report outlining development drilling in the Hawkeye Claim Area Slick Rock District, San Miguel County, Colorado, including the geology, ownership, location, and plans for future drilling. Maps of the development drilling area and a summary of assay data, in tabulated form, are also included.

A report regarding development drilling in the Hawkeye claim area, Slick Rock District, San Miguel County, Colorado

Report discussing the the development of milling practice in Boulder County, the ore-dressing methods in use, and the local manufacture of ferrotungsten and tungstic oxide. Figures giving the production of tungsten concentrates in the Boulder district, in the United States, and in the world; data on the buying of tungsten ores; costs of production; and the normal tungsten requirements in this country are presented.

A report discussing HSSR results for the Leadville NTMS Quadrangle