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Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Colimapu Formation, Chile

Description: Discussing Laboratory and field studies that show that the geologic history and environment of the Colimapu formation of central Chile differed considerably from those of the uranium-bearing Diamantiano formation of Argentina with which the Upper Colimapu has been correlated.
Date: October 1962
Creator: Bowes, William A.; Knowles, Paul H.; Brito, Aldo Moraga; H., Erik Klohn & C., Mario Serrano
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Vilcabamba Uranium Deposits, Cuzco Department, Peru

Description: Abstract: In 1957 uranium was discovered in the Vilcabamba district on the north flank of the Cordillera Vilcabamba, part of the Cordillera Oriental. This district contains principally small copper-nickel veins. Small lenses of uraninite occur in calcite veins cutting Permian Copacabana limestone. Uranium is most abundant marginal to centers of strongest copper-nickel mineralization. Leaching and oxidation are virtually absent because of Pleistocene glaciation. Four separate areas in which uran… more
Date: October 1962
Creator: Gabelman, John W.
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Uranium in Peru

Description: Introduction: From the inception of the effort to utilize atomic energy Perú has been of interest as a possible source of radioactive raw materials because of its great variety and abundance of metals. Because of this and a desire at that time to develop additional supplies of uranium, a cooperative program to search for uranium deposits was initiated in 1953 by the Junta and the USAEC.
Date: January 1, 1962
Creator: Gabelman, John W. & Beard, Raymond R.
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Reconnaissance for Uranium in the Lonquimay Area, Province of Malleco, Chile

Description: Discussing a two-week reconnaissance of the Lonquimay area, in south-central Chile, in which anomalies were noted in marl and in a sulfide-mineralized shear zone in continental black shales
Date: October 1962
Creator: Knowles, Paul H.; Bowes, William A.; C., Mario Serrano & Moraga Brito, Aldo
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