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Geology and Uranium Deposits of Part of the Browns Park Formation, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah: a Preliminary Report

Description: From abstract: Uranium deposits and radioactivity anomalies have been found in the eastern half of the area underlain by the Browns Park formation in northwestern Colorado, south-central Wyoming, and northeastern Utah. The deposits are in eolian, lacustrine, and fluvial sandstones, tuffaceous sandstones, and limestones all of which were deposited on two converging pediments during Miocene time. At least one eastern and one western facies of lacustrine and fluvial sedimentary rocks are separated… more
Date: June 1955
Creator: Theobald, P. K., Jr. & Chew, R. T., III
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Plan: Brown's Hill Mine

Description: Map showing the locations of drill holes, survey stations, and sample locations in Brown's Hill Mine in Carbon County, Wyoming accompanying a report on uranium mining operations in the Browns Hill Prospect. Scale 1 in. - 10 ft.
Date: June 2, 1955
Creator: Bronton & Tape
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Preliminary Report on the Browns Hill Prospect, Carbon County Wyoming

Description: A preliminary report regarding the Browns Hill Prospect Carbon County, Wyoming describing the location, physical features, mineral rights and mining history, ownership, geology, development, mining costs, and ore reserves. The report concludes that this area cannot be profitably mined at the time.
Date: June 20, 1955
Creator: Whalen, J. F.
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