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Preliminary Report Trace Elements Investigations Hickman and Adjacent Counties, Tenn.

Description: The following report describes the findings from an investigation of a uranium-bearing strata undertaken in Hickman and adjacent counties in west-central Tennessee during the summer and fall of 1944. The strata contained radioactive elements within the Chattanooga shale and the Maury glauconitic member of the Ridgetop shale.
Date: February 1945
Creator: Brill, Kenneth G., Jr.; Nelson, John M. & Prouty, Chilton E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Determination of Thorium in High Grade and Low Grade Ores

Description: Report discussing a procedure for determinion of thorium in monazite ores and other ores with diverse composition. This procedure can be used for high and low grade ores.
Date: September 1947
Creator: Grimaldi, F. S. & Marsh, Charlotte A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Shorter Contributions to Alaskan Trace Elements Studies: 1946: Part 1: Trace Elements Investigations in the Grant Creek Area, Yukon Region, Alaska

Description: Report discussing field search of the U.S. Geological Survey. From abstract: "Field search in August 1946 failed to locate a reported occurrence of float from pitchblende veins in the Grand Creek area north of the Yukon River about 30 miles west of Tanana in central Alaska."
Date: October 4, 1949
Creator: Killeen, P. L. & White, M. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of Radioactive Equilibrium in Carnotite Ores of the Colorado Plateau

Description: Report discussing a geological study for which the objective was to determine the age of Colorado Plateau carnotite. "In addition to quantitative analyses of uranium and lead, the radium-uranium equilibrium of each sample was studied."
Date: August 1949
Creator: Stieff, L. R.; Girhard, M. N. & Stern, T. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of Mesityl Oxide to the Determination of Thorium

Description: Report discussing a study in which "thorium nitrate is quantitatively extracted by mesityl oxide from solutions saturated with aluminum nitrate even in the presence of relatively large amounts of phosphate."
Date: August 1949
Creator: Levine, Harry & Grimaldi, F. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experimental Adit in the Chattanooga Shale

Description: Report discussing an Chattanooga shale adit for laboratory test samples of rock and gaining information regarding mining conditions.
Date: March 1949
Creator: Brown, Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Report - Radioactivity of Some Alaskan Placer Samples

Description: The following report provides results taken from more than 600 samples found in Alaska, mostly concentrates from placer operations, that were tested for radioactivity during January 1945 in the laboratory of the Geological Survey.
Date: February 1945
Creator: Harder, James O. & Reed, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Determination of Phosphorous in Rocks Containing Vanadium

Description: From Abstract: "This paper describes a rapid routine procedure for the determination of phosphorous in the presence of vanadium. Vanadium is reduced with formic acid prior to precipitation of phosphorous as ammonium phosphomolybdate and the ammonium phosphomolybdate is weighed as such."
Date: July 1949
Creator: Randolph, R. B. & Grimaldi, F. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Present Investigations of Radioactive Raw Materials by the Geological Survey and a Recommended Program for Future Work

Description: From abstract: "The Geological Survey's program of investigation of radioactive raw materials is presented herewith under present investigations, plans for future investigations, plan of operation, and cost of operation. This report was prepared at the request of the Atomic Energy Commission."
Date: April 1947
Creator: Butler, A. P., Jr. & Stead, F. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Report on Methods of Analysis for Very Small Percentages of Uranium 0002

Description: Abstract: Procedures are presented in detail of two methods for the determination of very small percentages of uranium (down to 0.002%). The methods are applicable to a wide variety of materials. Notes on the methods and confirmatory experiments are also given.
Date: July 1945
Creator: Foster, M. D.; Grimaldi, F. S. & Stevens, R. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trace Elements Reconnaissance in South Dakota and Wyoming Preliminary Report

Description: The following report provides information that follows investigations of radioactivity in certain rocks found in Wyoming and South Dakota during the summer of 1945. Uranium is the principal element in this report with thorium as secondary.
Date: March 1946
Creator: Slaughter, A. L. & Nelson, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Eastern Black Shale Reconnaissance Preliminary Report

Description: The following report is the result of a reconnaissance of the black shales of the Eastern United States in the summer of 1944. The purpose of this reconnaissance was to determine the radioactivity of the shales, specifically for uranium and thorium.
Date: August 25, 1944
Creator: Slaughter, A. L. & Clabaugh, S. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trace Elements Investigations in the Cache Creek - Upper Peters Creek Area, Yentna District, Alaska

Description: The following report provides findings of trace elements from investigations on Cache and upper Peters Creeks in the Tentana District, Alaska after discovering radioactive minerals within Geological Survey's collection of Alaskan placer deposits. This investigation took place in the summer of 1945.
Date: March 1946
Creator: Robinson, G. D.; Wedow, Helmuth, Jr. & Lyons, J. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Results of Prospecting of the "Leached" Zone Over Phosphate Deposits in NW 1/4 of Sec. 9, T. 31 S., R. 25 E., Polk County, Florida

Description: Report discussing a geological examination of an area in Polk County, Florida with leached zones containing uranium. The objective of the study was to determine the advisability of making plans for stockpiling the leached zone material in this area.
Date: December 1949
Creator: Stewart, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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