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Selected Annotated Bibliography and Index Map of Thorium and Rare-Earth Deposits in the United States and Alaska

Description: Introduction: Thorium and rare-earth metals have come into strategic importance in this country in the last few years with the potential use of thorium in the production of atomic power and the development of new uses for the rare earths in the aircraft industry.
Date: July 1955
Creator: Buck, Katharine L.
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Geology and Uranium Deposits in Carbonaceous Rocks of the Fall Creek Area, Bonneville County, Idaho

Description: From introduction: This report describes the general geologic setting, the occurrences of uranium or radioactivity in the Fall Creek, Idaho area and adjacent areas, the probable nature of the mineralization and origin of the deposits, and the estimated reserves of uranium-bearing rock.
Date: July 1954
Creator: Vine, James David
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Carnotite Resources of the Legin Group Area, San Miguel County, Colorado

Description: From abstract: The Legin group area comprises five privately owned claims, nine Government claims, and some public land. The area is in parts of secs. 28 and 29, T. 43 N., R. 19 W., New Mexico principal meridian, San Miguel County, Colo. It is about 45 miles from the Government mill at Monticello, Utah, and 50 miles from the Vanadium Corporation of America mill at Naturita, Colo. The Legin group area has yielded a total production of more than 18,000 short tons of carnotite ore that averaged 0.… more
Date: July 1952
Creator: Bell, Henry
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Possible Test Sites in Granitic Rocks in the United States

Description: Introduction: This report describes areas of granitic rocks suitable for underground nuclear tests within Federally-controlled land in the continental limits of the United States. This information was requested of the U. S. Geological Survey by the Albuquerque Operations Office of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, and was compiled during March 1959 by D. C. Alvord, W. J. Carr, P. M. Hanshaw, S. P. Kanizay, C. S. Robinson, R. W. Schnabel, J. A. Sharps, and C. T. Wrucke.
Date: July 1959
Creator: Alvord, Donald C.; Carr, Wilfred James; Hanshaw, Penelope M.; Kanizay, Stephen P.; Robinson, Charles Sherwood; Schnabel, Robert W. et al.
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Interim Report on the Radioactive Carbonate-Hematite Veins Near Salmon Bay, Prince of Wales Island, Southeastern Alaska

Description: From abstract: In the vicinity of Salmon Bay near the northeastern end of Prince of Wales Island, southeastern Alaska, samples obtained in 1951 from narrow, steeply dipping, carbonate-hematite veins contain as much as ,O.07 percent equivalent uranium. The average grade of these veins cannot be reliably stated because no systematic sampling has been done. No uranium or thorium minerals have been identified. Several chemical analyses indicate only a few thousandths percent uranium. Most of the ra… more
Date: July 1952
Creator: Houston, Joseph R.
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"Granite" Exploration Hole, Area 15, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada -- Interim Report: Part A, Structural, Petrographic, and Chemical Data

Description: From introduction: The "Granite" exploration hole was core drilled to determine the character of the igneous rocks from the surface to a depth of 1,200 feet and the degree of structural anisotropism of the rock within 200 feet of a point 950 feet below the surface. This report summarizes the data on the structure, chemistry, petrology and alteration of the rocks exposed at the surface in the immediate vicinity of the drill site and in the core.
Date: July 1959
Creator: Houser, F. N. & Poole, F. G.
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Airborne Radioactivity Survey of the Red Desert Region, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Description: From abstract: An airborne radioactivity survey of a selected area in the Red Desert, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, containing outcrops of radioactive lignites and shales of known surface extent and uranium content, was flown on flight lines at three levels, respectively 250, 500, and 1,000 feet above the ground and spaced at one-quarter mile intervals. Measurements from three identical dual-channel radiation detectors were simultaneously recorded to obtain data at various distances from natural … more
Date: July 1951
Creator: Nelson, R. A.; Sharp, William N. & Stead, Frank W.
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Preliminary Report on Uranium-Bearing Pliocene (?) Rocks in the Split Rock Area, Central Wyoming

Description: From abstract: A sequence of slightly radioactive Pliocene(?) rocks in the Split Rock area of central Wyoming is at least 600 feet thick, underlies an area of more than 25 square miles, and consists of alternating beds of tuffaceous shale, sandstone, and pumicite. Only a small part of the section has been examined. In addition to the uranium content of the strata, there has been secondary concentration of uranium in brecciated limestone similar to spring deposits that could be of Pliocene or Pl… more
Date: July 1952
Creator: Love, J. D.
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Mineralogy, Internal Structural and Textural Characteristics, and Paragenesis of Uranium-Bearing Veins in the United States

Description: From introduction: The purpose of this paper is to summarize and review some of the recent mineralogic information relevant to uranium-bearing veins in the United States, as well as to describe some of the reported mineralogic associations and the modes of occurrence of the uranium minerals in vein deposits.
Date: July 1957
Creator: Walker, George Walton & Adams, John W.
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Uranium-Bearing Copper Deposits Near Guadalupita, Mora County, New Mexico

Description: Abstract: Dark shale and arkosic sandstone south of Guadalupita, Mora County, New Mexico, contain as much as 4 percent copper and 0. 01 percent uranium on the basis of a few samples recently analyzed. The deposits occur primarily in the dark shale which is about 5 feet thick and dips about 900. Potential reserves of this material are very large. Prospecting and further geologic work will be necessary, however, to evaluate possibilities of these large tonnages. If the deposits can be mined for t… more
Date: July 1952
Creator: Bachman, George Odell & Read, Charles B.
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Summary of Investigations of Uranium Deposits in the Pumpkin Buttes Area, Johnson and Campbell Counties, Wyoming

Description: From abstract: Uranium minerals were discovered in the Pumpkin Buttes area, Campbell and Johnson Counties by the U. S. Geological Survey in October 1951. From June to November 1952, an area of about 750 square miles was examined for uranium deposits, and 211 localities with abnormally high radioactivity were found; uranium minerals are visible at 121 of these localities.
Date: July 1953
Creator: Troyer, Max L.; McKay, Edward J.; Soister, Paul E. & Wallace, Stewart R.
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Airborne Radioactivity Surveys in the Mojave Desert Region, Kern, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties, California

Description: From abstract: Airborne radioactivity surveys in the Mojave Desert region, Kern, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties were made in five areas recommended as favorable for the occurrence of radioactive raw materials: (1) Rock Corral area, San Bernardino County. (2) Searles Station area, Kern County. (3) Soledad area, Kern County, (4) White Tank area, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. (5) Harvard Hills area, San Bernardino County. Anomalous radiation was detected in all but the Harvard Hil… more
Date: July 1952
Creator: Moxham, Robert Morgan
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An Application of Spectrographic Microphotometric Scanning

Description: A report about a previously published semiquantitative spectrographic method that was modified by applying microphotometric scanning of the spectrograms in such a way that the operator was free to do other work during a large part of the scanning time.
Date: July 1954
Creator: Waring, C. L.; Frank, Mona & Sherwood, A. M.
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Stratigraphic Sections of the Phosphoria Formation in Montana, 1949-1950, Part 1

Description: Report discussing an investigation of the stratigraphy of the Phosphoria formation in Montana. The investigation took from 1949 to 1950, and this report includes about half of the data collected. Analytical data and abstracts of several locations' stratigraphic sections are included.
Date: July 1953
Creator: Cressman, E. R.; Wilson, W. H.; Tandy, C. W. & Garmoe, W. J.
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Determination of Thorium in the Parts Per Million Range in Rocks

Description: Abstract: "A procedure for the determination of thorium in the concentration range of 0.2 to 10 parts per million ThO2 in felsic or mafic rocks. Thorium is extracted by mesityl oxide and purified by iodate precipitation from nitric acid medium containing tartaric acid and hydrogen peroxide. The thorium is determined spectrophotometrically with thoron from meso-tartaric acid medium."
Date: July 1957
Creator: Levine, Harry & Grimaldi, Frank S.
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Radioactivity Reconnaissance of Part of North-Central Clear Creek County, Front Range, Colorado

Description: Report discussing an investigation of radioactivity in part of Clear Creek County, Front Range, Colorado. The methods and results of the reconnaissance are included. Veins containing chalcopyrite were found to be the best source of radioactivity in the region.
Date: July 1953
Creator: Wells, John D. & Harrison, Jack E.
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Second Occurrence of Bayleyite in the United States

Description: Abstract: "The mineral bayleyite was first described in 1951 from a mine in Yavapai County, Ariz. This report describes bayleyite from the Hideout No. 1 mine, San Juan County, Utah, together with its associated minerals and mineralogic properties."
Date: July 1952
Creator: Stern, T. W. & Weeks, Alice Dowse
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Reconnaissance for Uraniferous Rocks in Northwestern Colorado, Southwestern Wyoming, and Northeastern Utah

Description: The following report covers a reconnaissance for new discoveries of radioactive lignite deposits in the Green River Basin and Uinta Basin of Wyoming and Utah where similar discoveries to previous studies in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming were made. Additionally, there were new prospects examined, as well as reconnaissance for uranium deposits.
Date: July 1952
Creator: Beroni, E. P. & McKeown, F. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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