Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports
The Capitan Benally 4A uranium-vanadium mine was developed as the result of uranium minerals located by a
single drill hole drilled by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This exploration hole...
Resource Identifiers: CR-95-E
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In February, 1953, a 5 ton shipment of uranium - vanadium ore was made from the Sam Charlie No.1 mining permit in
the Monument Valley area of Navajo County, Arizona. Over the years the location of...
Resource Identifiers: CR-95-C
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The Mitchell Mesa Mine was developed on the rim of an isolated mesa within the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal
Park in Navajo County, Arizona. This park, established by the Tribal Council on July 11,...
Resource Identifiers: CR-95-B
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This summary report overviews a State of Arizona and U. S. Department of
Energy funded drilling project to determine if near-term hot dry rock (HDR)
geothermal potential exists in the eastern...
Resource Identifiers: CR-94-D
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Six core chip samples, AZ878-01 thru AZ878-06, taken from the interval between
3,267 and 3,365 feet in the SwrDI/NMSU No. 1 Alpine-Federal well, Apache County,
Arizona, were analyzed for organic...
Resource Identifiers: CR-96-B
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The Tract 11 and Tract 17 uranium mines, in the Monument Valley area of Navajo County, Arizona, were developed as the
result of sealed, competitive bidding for Navajo Tribal lands to be opened for...
Resource Identifiers: CR-96-A
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The Syracuse mine, also known as the RF and R or Sam Harvey Mine, was developed on one of the initial
discoveries of uranium-vanadium minerals in the Carrizo Mountains of northeastern Arizona and...
Resource Identifiers: CR-97-D
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The Starlight and Starlight East Mines were two of fifteen uranium deposits located by exploration drilling in
the Oljeto syncline area of Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona. Of all the...
Resource Identifiers: CR-97-B
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The Sunlight and South Sunlight Mines were two of fifteen uranium deposits located by exploration
drilling in the Oljeto syncline area of Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona. Of all the deposits...
Resource Identifiers: CR-97-A
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The Sunnyside mine was developed on one of the initial discoveries of uranium-vanadium minerals in the
Carrizo Mountains of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. The host rock for the...
Resource Identifiers: CR-97-C
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Beginning in the mid-1860s the southwestern US experienced a mining boom,
and a large number of mines were developed. They went through alternating phases
of economic upswing and decline, but by...
Resource Identifiers: CR-98-A
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The Martin mine was developed on one of the initial discoveries of uranium-vanadium minerals
in the Carrizo Mountains of northwestern Arizona and northeastern New Mexico. The host rock for
these...
Resource Identifiers: CR-99-B
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The exposures of the uranium-vanadium minerals on the rim of North Star Mesa were some of the first
to be discovered in the Carrizo Mountains of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. The...
Resource Identifiers: CR-99-A
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Previous workers have established the general petrological character of the McCoy
Mountains Formation and equivalent Jurassic-Cretaceous units in southwestern Arizona
and southeastern California by...
Resource Identifiers: CR-00-A
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Less than five miles southwest of the Ray open pit lies a geologic wonderland
centered on the copper prospect at Copper Butte. Not only are the Tertiary stratigraphic
and structural relationships...
Resource Identifiers: CR-01-C
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The banded crystalline rocks of Sabino Canyon are a strong aesthetic component of the
canyon's dramatic views. Certainly these rocks have attracted much attention from geologists.
Until...
Resource Identifiers: CR-01-A
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The study area, which Feth and Hem (1963) refer to as the
Payson Basin, has been the focus of attention for both the
United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the State of
Arizona, Bureau of...
Resource Identifiers: CR-02-B
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Water is the lifeblood of the Southwest, and much of the region’s water resources occur in
the large sedimentary basins that underlie the modern valleys of the Basin and Range Province.
One such...
Resource Identifiers: CR-02-A
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During the mid-1950s exploration drilling located several large uranium ore bodies in buried channels,
in the Oljeto syncline area of the Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona. The channels occupy...
Resource Identifiers: CR-03-E
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The mineralized outcrops that would be developed into the Rattlesnake No. I uranium-vanadium mine
were some of the earliest to be found on the north side of the Carrizo Mountains, Apache County,...
Resource Identifiers: CR-03-D
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