National Uranium Resource Evaluation: Pueblo Quadrangle, Colorado

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

OSTI ID:7066962

Dickinson, K A; Hills, F A

Twelve favorable areas are defined in sedimentary rocks and one in igneous rocks in the Pueblo 1/sup 0/ x 2/sup 0/ Quadrangle, Colorado. All the sedimentary environments are favorable for the sandstone type (class 240) and in addition Area G could be favorable for the syngenetic phosphorite type (class 140). Two favorable areas are believed favorable for subclass 242 roll-type deposits that are similar to Texas coastal plain environments; three areas are favorable for deposits of subclass 243, peneconcordant deposits in discrete channels; three areas are favorable for deposits of subclass 244, peneconcordant deposits that are not in discrete channels; and two areas are favorable for either class 243 or class 244 or both. Unfavorable areas lacked evidence of one of the requisites for uranium mineralization or for preservation of a deposit if it formed. These areas included the following groups of rocks: Quaternary sedimentary, Tertiary sedimentary, Tertiary volcanic, Mesozoic sedimentary, Paleozoic sedimentary and Precambrian igneous.

• Research Organization: Geological Survey, Golden, CO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AI13-78GJ01686
• OSTI ID: 7066962
• Report Number(s): PGJ/F-075-82; ON: DE82021153
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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