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

dc.contributor.authorChenoweth, W.L.
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-29T00:25:40Z
dc.date.available2018-09-29T00:25:40Z
dc.date.issued2011-08-29
dc.identifier.citationChenoweth, W.L., 2011, The Exploration and Production History of the Cato Sells Uranium-Vanadium Mines, Monument Valley, Apache County, Arizona: Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-11-F, 13 p.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/629209
dc.descriptionIn 1950, Cato Sells, a Navajo businessman, obtained three tracts (claims) adjacent to the Vanadium Corporation of America's (VCA) 1943 Monument No.2 lease in northeastern Apache County, Arizona. This lease was originally mined for vanadium and was now being mined for uranium and vanadium. Exploration drilling by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) located orebodies on Cato Sells' tracts. This report is to document the production history of those tracts. 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 (USGA, 1988).
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCR-11-F
dc.relation.urlhttps://library.azgs.arizona.edu/
dc.rightsArizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectArizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports
dc.subjectTriassic
dc.subjectChinle Formation
dc.subjectShinarump Member
dc.subjectRooster Rock
dc.subjectMonument Uplift
dc.subjectCane Valley
dc.subjectNavajo Reservation
dc.subjectApache County
dc.subjectBureau of Indian Affairs
dc.subjectBIA
dc.subjectNavajo Tribal Council
dc.subjectOrebodies
dc.subjectAtomic Energy Commission
dc.subjectAEC
dc.subjectExploration
dc.subjectmining
dc.subjectvanadium
dc.subjecturanium
dc.subjectenergy
dc.titleThe Exploration and Production History of the Cato Sells Uranium-Vanadium Mines, Monument Valley, Apache County, Arizona
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csdgm.bounding.east-109.451
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csdgm.bounding.south36.4901
dc.description.noteOriginally prepared for the Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources and the Navajo Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation Project.
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