Uranium-Bearing Copper Deposits Near Guadalupita, Mora County, New Mexico
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Abstract: Dark shale and arkosic sandstone south of Guadalupita, Mora County, New Mexico, contain as much as 4 percent copper and 0. 01 percent uranium on the basis of a few samples recently analyzed. The deposits occur primarily in the dark shale which is about 5 feet thick and dips about 900. Potential reserves of this material are very large. Prospecting and further geologic work will be necessary, however, to evaluate possibilities of these large tonnages. If the deposits can be mined for t…
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Date:
July 1952
Creator:
Bachman, George Odell & Read, Charles B.
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