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Carnotite Resources of the Legin Group Area, San Miguel County, Colorado

Description: From abstract: The Legin group area comprises five privately owned claims, nine Government claims, and some public land. The area is in parts of secs. 28 and 29, T. 43 N., R. 19 W., New Mexico principal meridian, San Miguel County, Colo. It is about 45 miles from the Government mill at Monticello, Utah, and 50 miles from the Vanadium Corporation of America mill at Naturita, Colo. The Legin group area has yielded a total production of more than 18,000 short tons of carnotite ore that averaged 0.… more
Date: July 1952
Creator: Bell, Henry
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Geology of the Copper King Mine area, Prairie Divide, Larimer County, Colorado

Description: "This report, prepared principally to aid in the interpretation of the core drilling, presents the principal results of the field and preliminary laboratory work by the U.S. Geological Survey; it does not contain information obtained from the core drilling."
Date: December 1952
Creator: Sims, P. K. & Phair, George
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Geology of the Quartz Creek Pegmatite District, Gunnison County, Colorado

Description: Report discussing the geology of the Quartz Creek pegmatite district of Gunnison County, Colorado. "The Quartz Creek pegmatite district includes an area of about 29 square miles in the vicinity of Quartz Creek in Gunnison County, Colorado. This area contains 1,803 pegmatites that are intruded into pre-Cambrian rocks."
Date: April 1952
Creator: Staatz, Mortimer H. & Trites, Albert F.
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Pegmatites of the Crystal Mountain District, Larimer County, Colorado

Description: From introduction: The study of the Crystal Mountain district, Larimer County, Colo., is but one phase of this post-World War II pegmatite program, in part carried out by the Geological Survey on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: April 1952
Creator: Thurston, William R.
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Preliminary Report on 1952 Investigations in the Colorado Front Range

Description: From abstract: Five mines in north-central Clear Creek County- Golden Calf, Gomer, Martha E., Golden Glen, and Diamond Mountain--have high anomalous radioactivity and are considered potential sources of uranium.
Date: December 1952
Creator: Sims, P. K.; Harrison, Jack Edward & Moore, Frank B.
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Preliminary Report on Exploration in the Spud Patch Area, San Miguel County, Colorado

Description: From introduction: From November 1949 to May 1952, the U. S. Geological Survey explored the Spud Patch area by diamond drilling to find carnotite deposits that would make new mines and to appraise the reserves of the area. Previous work and a brief outline of the general geology of the area have been reported (Bell and Icke, 1950; and Bell, 1952).
Date: 1952
Creator: Hilpert, Lowell S.
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