Leasing and Mining of Carnotite Deposits in the 1920's, Carrizo Mountains, Apache County, Arizona and San Juan County, New Mexico

Chenoweth, W.L.

dc.contributor.author	Chenoweth, W.L.
dc.date.accessioned	2018-11-10T02:49:57Z
dc.date.available	2018-11-10T02:49:57Z
dc.date.issued	1989
dc.identifier.citation	Chenoweth, W.L., 1989, Leasing and Mining of Carnotite Deposits in the 1920's, Carrizo Mountains, Apache County, Arizona and San Juan County, New Mexico: Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report, CR-89-F, 48 p.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10150/630783
dc.description	During the early 1920's there was a small amount of exploration and mining of carnotite ores in the Carrizo Mountains for their radium content. Very little factual information on this activity has been published, and some is incorrect. For example, a recent paper by Finch and McLemore (1989) states that these ores were mined from 1923 to 1927, when the only recorded production occurred in 1920. The principal source of data presented here is a detailed report prepared by the General Services Administration (GSA), Indian Trust Accounting Division for the Navajo Tribe. This document (GSA, 1981) was admitted as evidence in U.S. Claims Court, Navajo Tribe vs. United States, Docket Nos. 69 and 299 (copper, vanadium, uranium, sand, rock and gravel claims) held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 24-March 4, 1983. A copy of the vanadium and uranium section was obtained by the Grand Junction Area Office of the U.S. Department of Energy, where the author was formerly employed.
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Arizona Geological Survey (Tucson, AZ)
dc.relation.ispartofseries	CR-89-F
dc.relation.url	https://library.azgs.arizona.edu/item/AGCR-1552429347698-51
dc.rights	Arizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.
dc.subject	Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports
dc.subject	New Mexico
dc.subject	Arizona
dc.subject	San Juan County
dc.subject	Apache County
dc.subject	Carrizo Mountains
dc.subject	GSA
dc.subject	radium
dc.subject	Carnotite Deposiits
dc.subject	mining
dc.subject	Leasing
dc.subject	1920s
dc.title	Leasing and Mining of Carnotite Deposits in the 1920's, Carrizo Mountains, Apache County, Arizona and San Juan County, New Mexico
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