Carnotite-Bearing Sandstone in Cedar Canyon, Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota
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From abstract: Carnotite-bearing sandstone and claystone have been found in the Chadron formation of the White River group of Oligocene age in the southern part of the Slim Buttes area, Harding County, S. Dak. The carnotite is an efflorescent
yellow coating on lenticular silicified sandstone. Locally, the mineralized sandstone contains 0.23 percent uranium. The uranium and vanadium ions are believed to have been derived from the overlying mildly radioactive tuffaceous rocks of the Arikaree form…
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Date:
1955
Creator:
Gill, James R. & Moore, George William
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