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Mineralogy and Geochemistry of a Uraniferous Coal From the Red Desert Area, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Description: Report discussing the investigation of the mineralogy and geochemistry of some subbituminous uraniferous coal from the Red Desert area of Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Data and discussion from the mineralogic and geochemical studies, Fischer retort assays of a coal sample, and summary and conclusions are included.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Breger, I. A.; Deul, Maurice; Meyrowitz, Robert & Rubinstein, Samuel
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Results of Exploratory Core Drilling for Uranium Bearing Coal in the Northern Part of the Red Desert Area, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Description: Report presenting the results of core drilling in Sweetwater county, Wyoming aimed at finding uraniferous coal. Information regarding the locations that were drilled, progress made in drilling, geology of the area, reserves of uraniferous coal, and future plans are included.
Date: May 1953
Creator: Masursky, Harold; Pipiringos, George N. & Gower, Howard D.
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Uranium-Bearing Coal in the Central Part of the Great Divide Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Description: From abstract: Field work leading to this report was done by the U. S. Geological Survey for the Division of Raw Materials of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Nearly 24 townships were mapped in the central part of the Great Divide Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, Fourteen of these townships contain outcrops of uranium-bearing coal. Thirty coal beds were mapped, but only seven of them have uranium-bearing coal reserves as defined in this report.
Date: March 1956
Creator: Pipiringos, George N.
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Uranium-Bearing Coal in the Eastern Part of the Red Desert Area, Great Divide Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Description: The following report discusses the results from studies made during a program of geological mapping and exploratory core drilling that was carried out from 1951 to 1953 by the U.S. Geological Survey on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to determine the areal distribution, thickness, and uranium content of coal in the eastern part of the Red Desert area, Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
Date: June 1956
Creator: Masursky, Harold
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Uranium Deposits in the Red Desert of the Great Divide Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Description: From introduction: The investigations that are the subject of this report were to appraise the uranium resources of the Red Desert area, and to accumulate data concerning the geology of uranium. Knowledge of the genesis of the schroeckingerite is necessary for a clear appraisal of the deposit.
Date: November 1951
Creator: Wyant, Donald G.; Sharp, William N. & Sheridan, Douglas M.
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