The Exploration and Production History of the Black and Blackwater Uranium-Vanadium Mines, Monument Valley, Apache County, Arizona

Thumbnail
Name:
cr-11-g_blackwater_u-v_final_1 ...
Size:
1.164Mb
Format:
PDF
Download
Author
Chenoweth, W.L.
Issue Date
2011-08-29
Keywords
Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports
Triassic
Navajo Indian Reservation
Monument Uplift
Rooster Rock
Apache County
Cane Valley
uraninite
conglomeratic sandstone
Chinle Formation

Metadata
Show full item record
Citation
Chenoweth, W.L., 2011, The Exploration and Production History of the Black and Blackwater Uranium-Vanadium Mines, Monument Valley, Apache County, Arizona: Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-11-G, 14 p.
Description
In 1950, two Monument Valley Navajos, Jessie Black and Harvey Blackwater, determined that the ground claimed by Cato Sells did not completely surround Vanadium Corporation of America's (YCA) 1943 Monument No.2 lease in northwestern Apache County, Arizona. This lease was originally mined for vanadium and was now being mined for uranium and vanadium. This report is to document the production history of the mining on Black and Blackwater's Navajo Tribal Mining Permit. Location The Monument No.2 mine area is located in the extreme northwestern area of Apache County, Arizona (Figure 1). The mine is in the Cane Valley on the eastern flank of the Monument Uplift. Access to the mine area was via a 19-mile dirt road that headed south from U.S. Highway 163 one mile south of the bridge over the San Juan River at Mexican Hat, Utah. Another access road went from the mine, over Comb Ridge, and connected to U.S. Highway 160 near Mexican Water, Arizona. The Monument No.2 open pit mine is shown at the center of the right margin of Rooster Rock topographic quadrangle (USGS, 1988).
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/629207
Additional Links
https://library.azgs.arizona.edu/
Language
en
Series/Report no.
CR-11-G
Rights
Arizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.
Collection Information
Documents in the AZGS Document Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact azgs-info@email.arizona.edu.
North Bounding Coordinate
37.0534
South Bounding Coordinate
36.7415
West Bounding Coordinate
-110.446
East Bounding Coordinate
-109.97
Collections