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Geology and Production History of the Firelight No. 6 Uranium Mine, Navajo County, Arizona

dc.contributor.authorChenoweth, W.L.
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-29T00:26:43Z
dc.date.available2018-09-29T00:26:43Z
dc.date.issued1992
dc.identifier.citationChenoweth, W.L., 1992, Geology and Production History of the Firelight No. 6 Uranium Mine, Navajo County, Arizona: Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-92-C, 7 p.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/629249
dc.descriptionOne of the smaller uranium mines in the Monument Valley area of Navajo County, Arizona, the Firelight No.6 Mine has also been referred to as the Naschoy or Noschoy Mine (Young and others, 1964; Chenoweth and Malan, 1973; Scarborough, 1981). Naschoy is a Navajo Indian word meaning "lizard" (Young and Morgan, 1943, p. 51). "Firelight No.6" is the name used in this report, however, because it appears in the official ore-production records of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). I examined the mine in late 1959, while employed by the AEC. Most of the information in this report is from AEC documents. The mapping and geological interpretation of the drill-hole data were done by Rudolph W. Kopf and other AEC geologists who worked in Monument Valley. A map of the underground workings (Figure 1) and other data pertaining to the Firelight No.6 Mine were recently located in the files of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the Denver Federal Center'! Warren I. Finch of the USGS permitted me to copy the map for the Arizona Geological Survey.
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCR-92-C
dc.relation.urlhttps://library.azgs.arizona.edu/item/AGCR-1552429398328-545
dc.rightsArizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectArizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports
dc.subjectNavajo Indian Reservation
dc.subjectArizona
dc.subjectNavajo County
dc.subjectNoschoy Mine
dc.subjectUSGS
dc.subjectUnderground workings
dc.subjectAEC
dc.subjectProduction History
dc.subjectGeology
dc.subjecturanium
dc.subjectMesozoic
dc.subjectTriassic
dc.subjectMonument Valley
dc.subjectBoot Mesa Quadrangle
dc.subjectKayenta
dc.subjectOljeto syncline
dc.subjectChinle Formation
dc.subjectShinarump Member
dc.subjectradiogenic
dc.titleGeology and Production History of the Firelight No. 6 Uranium Mine, Navajo County, Arizona
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csdgm.bounding.south36.7998
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