National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Joplin Quadrangle, Missouri and Kansas

Technical Report · Sun Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6973649

Derby, J R; Upshaw, L P; Carter, E O; Roach, L F; Roach, D G

Reconnaissance and detailed geologic and radiometric investigations were conducted throughout the Joplin Quadrangle, Missouri and Kansas, to evaluate the uranium favorability using National Uranium Resource Evaluation criteria. Surface and subsurface studies were augmented by aerial radiometric surveys and hydrogeochemical and stream-sediment reconnaissance studies. Results of the investigations indicate that black shales of Desmoinesian and Missourian (Pennsylvanian) age are environments favorable for the deposition of uranium. The uranium is concentrated in phosphate nodules within these black shales. Environments considered unfavorable for uranium deposits are fluvial placers, coals, limestones, all sandstones, peridotite, granites, the Pennsylvanian-Mississippian unconformity, and vein-type deposits in sedimentary rocks.

• Research Organization: Geological Services of Tulsa, Inc., OK (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC13-76GJ01664
• OSTI ID: 6973649
• Report Number(s): PGJ/F-092-82; ON: DE82020958
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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