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Development Drilling in the Hawkeye Claim Area, Slick Rock District, San Miguel County, Colorado

Description: Report outlining development drilling in the Hawkeye Claim Area Slick Rock District, San Miguel County, Colorado, including the geology, ownership, location, and plans for future drilling. Maps of the development drilling area and a summary of assay data, in tabulated form, are also included.
Date: October 1953
Creator: Gualtieri, J. L. & Emerick, W. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Synthetic Liquid Fuel Potential of Colorado: Volume 2 - Exhibits and Appendices

Description: Volume of supplementary data, illustrations, and other information related to a study of the suitability of areas in Colorado for developing coal, natural gas, oil shale, and other deposits into synthetic liquid fuels.
Date: December 14, 1951
Creator: Ford, Bacon, and Davis
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Thorium and rare earth minerals in the Powderhorn district, Gunnison County, Colorado

Description: "Thorium deposits were discovered in the Powderhorn district in 1949. This district has long been known for its occurrences of alkalic igneous rocks, of which the best known is the Iron Hill complex (Larsen, 1942). Some of these alkalic rocks contain titanium, barium, strontium, rare earths, thorium, and niobium in greater percentages than those of most igneous rocks. A study of the thorium deposits was undertaken to obtain more information on the geologic relation of minor elements, particular… more
Date: February 1954
Creator: Olson, J. C. & Wallace, S. R.
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Location of uranium occurrences in southcentral Wyoming and northwestern Colorado

Description: "The principal uranium deposits in southcentral Wyoming and north-western Colorado are located in or at the margins of broad Tertiary basins. Interesting and possibly commercially significant occurrences are found in other Tertiary and older rocks at widely separated locations within this region. The six maps accompanying this report give the location, name, and ownership of the mines and occurrences from which samples assaying greater than 0.10% U3O8 have been collected. Claim names, location,… more
Date: February 1957
Creator: Bromley, Charles P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Synthetic Liquid Fuel Potential of Colorado: Volume 1 - Text

Description: Report documenting the suitability of Colorado for plant locations to produce synthetic liquid fuels, based on raw materials such as coal, oil shale, natural gas, and oil-impregnated strippable deposits.
Date: December 14, 1951
Creator: Ford, Bacon, and Davis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Uranium Occurrences, Fall River Area, Clear County, Colorado

Description: This report describes the Fall River Area that was examined for favorable areas between known occurrences of pitchblende at Quartz Hill and at Lawson.
Date: October 16, 1951
Creator: Smith, Loren E. & Baker, Kenneth E.
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The Uravan Mineral Belt

Description: "This report briefly describes the [Urvanian Mineral Belt] and outlines the geologic evidence supporting its concept. General plans for continuous exploration of this belt, and preliminary prediction of the total amount of carnotite-bearing rocks that might be in one unexplored area, are also presented"
Date: February 1950
Creator: Fischer, R. P.
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Geology of the Copper King Mine area, Prairie Divide, Larimer County, Colorado

Description: "This report, prepared principally to aid in the interpretation of the core drilling, presents the principal results of the field and preliminary laboratory work by the U.S. Geological Survey; it does not contain information obtained from the core drilling."
Date: December 1952
Creator: Sims, P. K. & Phair, George
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Exploration for uranium-vanadium deposits in Long Park and adjacent areas in the southern part of the Uravan district, Montrose County, Colorado

Description: "Between April 21, 1949, and August 20, 1955, the U.S. Geological Survey explored the southern part of the Uravan district for uranium-vanadium deposits and to appraise the uranium-vanadium reserves in the area."
Date: October 1956
Creator: Boardman, R. L.; Bowers, H. E.; Litsey, L. R. & Sumsion, C. T.
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Wet Mountains, Colorado, thorium investigations, 1952-1954

Description: A report regarding a geological survey of the Wet Mountains, Colorado. Concerns work done on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Christman, Robert A.; Brock, M. R.; Pearson, Robert Carl & Singewald, Q. D.
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Geology and ore deposits of the Freeland-Lamartine district, Clear Creek County, Colorado

Description: A report regarding a geological survey of the geology and ore deposits of the Freeland-Lamartine District, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Concerns work done on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: March 1954
Creator: Harrison, Jack Edward & Wells, J. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geology and uranium deposits of the Caribou area, Boulder County, Colorado

Description: A report regarding the geology and uranium deposits of the Caribou Area, in Bouler County, Colorado. This report concerns work done on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: March 1954
Creator: Moore, Frank B.; Cavender, Wayne S. & Kaiser, Edward Peck
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Robinson and Weatherly uraniferous pyrobitumen deposits near Placerville, San Miguel County, Colorado

Description: A report regarding the Robinson and Wetherly Uraniferious Pyrobitumen Deposits Near Placerville, San Miguel County, Colorado. This report concerns work done on behalf of the division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for the purpose of determining the uranium reserves, mode of occurrence, and extent of these deposits.
Date: November 1952
Creator: Wilmarth, V. R. & Vickers, Rollin C.
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Uranium in the Metal-Mining Districts of Colorado

Description: "This paper summarizes the results of the field studies of the Survey's Reconnaissance Group and outlines some geologic criteria that may be useful in guiding the search for uranium ore. The writers wish to acknowledge the cooperation of the minding companies and individuals who materially aided the program of investigations by reporting radioactive localities and by submitting samples of radioactive rocks and ores."
Date: June 1952
Creator: King, Robert Ugstad; Leonard, B. F.; Moore, Frank B. & Pierson, Charles Thomas
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Uranium deposits of the Uravan Mineral Belt

Description: A report regarding uranium deposits of the Urvan Mineral belt.
Date: June 1958
Creator: Wood, H. B. & Lekas, M. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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