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Uranophane at Silver Cliff Mine, Lusk, Wyoming

Description: Abstract: The uranium deposit at the Silver Cliff mine near Lusk, Wyo., consists primarily of uranophane which occurs as fracture fillings and small replacement pockets in faulted and fractured calcareous sandstone of Cambrian(?) age. The country rock in the vicinity of the mine is schist of pre-Cambrian age intruded by pegmatite dikes and is unconformably overlain by almost horizontal sandstone of Cambrian(?) age. The mine is on the southern end of the Lusk Dome, a local structure probably rel… more
Date: 1954
Creator: Wilmarth, Verl R. & Johnson, Donald H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Uranium in the Mayoworth Area, Johnson County, Wyoming - A Preliminary Report

Description: Preliminary report discussing uranium that was found in the basal limestone of the Sundance formation of late Jurassic age on the east flank of the Bighorn Mountains in Johnson County, Wyoming. The report provides information regarding geographic setting, geologic setting, stratigraphy, uranium occurrence localities, and origin of uranium in the Mayoworth area.
Date: April 1954
Creator: Love, J. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Green River Basin and the Rock Springs Uplift, Sweetwater and Fremont Counties, Wyoming

Description: Abstract: Preliminary reconnaissance for uranium in the Green River Basin and the Rock Springs Uplift revealed anomalous radioactivity northwest of Oregon Buttes in the Tipton tongue of the Green River formation and in the Cathedral Bluffs tongue of the Wasatch formation, and in the Tipton tongue in Red Creek Basin.
Date: March 25, 1954
Creator: Winterhalder, E. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Report on Uranium Deposits in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming

Description: Abstract: Uranium was discovered in the Gas Hills of the Wind River Basin by Mr. Nail E. McNeice of Riverton, Wyoming while he was prospecting with a Geiger counter in September 1953. Field parties of the Atomic Energy Commission started work in the area in October 1953.
Date: October 4, 1954
Creator: Grutt, Eugene W., Jr.; Hadfield, Jonathan P., Jr. & Smith, Edward W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: Talmadge talks segregation issue]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a hunting party stopping by Texas to discuss the Supreme Court's decision to ban segregation before continuing to Wyoming.
Date: September 29, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Status of ownership of part of the lands on which phosphate-bearing beds outcrop in westernmost Wyoming

Description: "This report and accompanying maps summarize the status of ownership of many phosphate bearing lands in westernmost Wyoming. Ownership categories discussed are (1) phosphate rights not owned by Federal Government, (2) phosphate rights not owned by Federal Government, and (3) ownership status uncertain."
Date: August 1954
Creator: Willey, Emerson C.; Cheney, T. M.; Peirce, H. Wesley & Grose, L. Trowbridge
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Talmadge talks segregation issue]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a hunting party stopping by Texas to discuss the Supreme Court's decision to ban segregation before continuing to Wyoming.
Date: September 29, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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