National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Gallup quadrangle, Arizona and New Mexico

Technical Report · Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6920403

Green, M W

Formations in the Gallup 1/sup 0/ x 2/sup 0/ Quadrangle, Arizona and New Mexico found favorable for endowment of uranium deposits of 100 tons of U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ at a minimum grade of 0.01 percent U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ include, in decreasing order of favorability: the Jurassic upper part of the Recapture Member and the Westwater Canyon and Brushy Basin Members of the Morrison Formation, the Jurassic Todilto Limestone, the Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone, the Cretaceous Toreva Formation, the Triassic Chinle Formation, and the Tertiary Hopi Buttes diatremes. Favorable areas are located in the Grants mineral belt of the southern San Juan Basin and adjacent areas in the Black Mesa Basin adjacent to the western boundary of the quadrangle.

• Research Organization: Geological Survey, Golden, CO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AI13-78GJ01686
• OSTI ID: 6920403
• Report Number(s): PGJ/F-013-82; ON: DE82022284
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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