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Results of Core Drilling for Uranium-Bearing Lignite, Mendenhall Area, Harding County, South Dakota

Description: Report discussing the results of core drilling in the Mendenhall Area of Harding County, South Dakota. This drilling was aimed at collecting data regarding uranium-bearing lignite. The report provides information regarding drilling operations, stratigraphy of the area, structure, and lignite deposits.
Date: June 1954
Creator: Gill, James R.
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Uranium-Bearing Sandstone in the White River Badlands, Pennington County, South Dakota

Description: 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 Oligoce… more
Date: April 1954
Creator: Moore, George W. & Levish, Murray
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