The Geology, Leasing and Production History of the Syracuse (R F and R) Uranium-Vanadium Mine, Apache County, Arizona
dc.contributor.author | Chenoweth, W.L. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-29T00:26:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-29T00:26:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Chenoweth, W.L., 1997, The Geology, Leasing and Production History of the Syracuse (R F and R) Uranium-Vanadium Mine, Apache County, Arizona: Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-97-D, 18 p. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/629264 | |
dc.description | 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 northwestern New Mexico. The host rock for the ore deposit is the Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation of Late Jurassic age. Although the initial mining in the 1920's was for radium, this ore was later sold for its vanadium content. During the early 1940s, nearly 500 tons of high-grade vanadium ore was produced. Drilling by the U.S. Atomic .Energy Commission (AEC) in 1953 located some additional ore and the mine produced nearly 2,000 tons of uranium-vanadium ore in the 1950s and 1960s. Scarborough [1981, p.27] mapped the mine workings, but some of the history [ibid., p. 129, 276] of the mine is incorrect. This report, from the author's field notes etc., and documents located after Scarborough's report 'Was finished, summarizes the activities at this historic mine. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | CR-97-D | |
dc.relation.url | https://library.azgs.arizona.edu/ | |
dc.rights | Arizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved. | |
dc.subject | Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports | |
dc.subject | Arizona | |
dc.subject | Apache County | |
dc.subject | Carrizo Mountains | |
dc.subject | Sam Harvey Mine | |
dc.subject | Mine | |
dc.subject | uranium-vanadium | |
dc.subject | Production History | |
dc.subject | Leasing | |
dc.subject | Geology | |
dc.subject | Morrison Formation | |
dc.subject | Salt Wash Member | |
dc.title | The Geology, Leasing and Production History of the Syracuse (R F and R) Uranium-Vanadium Mine, Apache County, Arizona | |
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csdgm.bounding.south | 35.1315 | |
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refterms.dateFOA | 2018-09-29T00:26:48Z |