Exploration and Production History of the Uranium-Vanadium Mines on Cove Mesa, Apache County, Arizona

Chenoweth, W.L.

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Chenoweth, W.L., 2013, Exploration and Production History of the Uranium-Vanadium Mines on Cove Mesa, Apache County, Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report, CR-13-A, 27 p.

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Cove Mesa is a small mesa in the southern Carrizo Mountains, Apache County, Arizona. The mesa is capped by beds of the Salt Wash Member of the Jurassic Morrison Formation. This member is the host rock for the uranium-vanadium deposits on the mesa. A small shipment of vanadium ore was made in early 1944. Later that year, a 959.7 acre lease in the western and southern Carrizo Mountains was acquired by a civilian contractor for the Manhattan Engineer District. Included in this lease was a 246.2 acre tract on Cove Mesa. The lease was transferred to the United States of America; i.e., the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), in 1949. Drilling projects by the AEC discovered a considerable amount of uranium-vanadium ore on Cove Mesa, which was mined during 1948-1965.

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36.7947

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36.699

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