The Geology and Production History of the Uranium- Vanadium Mines on Plot 6, West Reservation Lease, and on Hoslie Henry’s Mining Permits, Northwestern Carrizo Mountains, Apache County, Arizona

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Chenoweth, W.L.
Issue Date
2018-02-27
Keywords
Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports
Mesozoic
Navajo Nation
Carrizo Mountains
Apache County
Cold War
Navajo Reservation
nuclear energy
Atomic Energy Commission
vanadium

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Chenoweth, W., 2018, The Geology and Production History of the Uranium-Vanadium Mines on Plot 6, West Reservation Lease, and on Hoslie Henry’s Mining Permits, Northwestern Carrizo Mountains, Apache County, Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-18-C, 24 p.
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Plot 6 is the 1 argest of 16 pIots ( claims) of a 229 .14-acre vanadium Iease that was issued in 1942. This lease was named the West Reservation Lease by the lessee, the Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA). The mines on this lease were called Rattlesnake, not for the reptiles, but for the blotchy pattern of yellow uranium and black vanadium minerals in the ore that resembled a rattlesnake's back (Earl Saltwater, oral communication, 1954). The purpose of this report is to record the best estimate of total ore production from this 52.36-acre plot and to point out an error in the official ore production records of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), (DOE, 1992). These records are available to the public at the National Archives, Rocky Mountain Region, Bloomfield, Colorado. Included in this report are the production histories of mines on Hoskie Henry's Navajo Tribal Mining Permits, adjoining Plot 6. Ore on one of the permits was mined from Plot 6.
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CR-18-C
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37.0531
South Bounding Coordinate
36.5
West Bounding Coordinate
-109.5
East Bounding Coordinate
-109
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