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Proposed program for and present status of the Geological Survey's investigation of domestic resources of radioactive raw materials

Trace Elements Investigations 35
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https://doi.org/10.3133/tei35

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Abstract

This interim report is designed to show the present status of the Geological Survey's information and the parts of a comprehensive program necessary to improve our information about the raw material resources of uranium and thorium. Rarely in geologic work has it been necessary. to determine so completely a nation's resources of useful minerals in so brief a span of time. Ordinarily, information on mineral resources Is accumulated during a long period of years. However, uranium and thorium were suddenly thrust from a position of subsidiary economic interest into one of great strategic importance. Information concerning their occurrence must, therefore, be obtained as rapidly as reliable methods of investigation will permit. Accordingly the program must be at once comprehensive and carried out over an area more extensive than is usual in the search for and appraisal of most other mineral resources.

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Bulter, A., Killeen, P., Page, G., Rubey, W., 1983, Proposed program for and present status of the Geological Survey's investigation of domestic resources of radioactive raw materials: U.S. Geological Survey Trace Elements Investigations 35, Report: iii, 16 p.; Plate 4: 23.46 inches x 15.73 inches, https://doi.org/10.3133/tei35.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Proposed program for and present status of the Geological Survey's investigation of domestic resources of radioactive raw materials
Series title Trace Elements Investigations
Series number 35
DOI 10.3133/tei35
Year Published 1983
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description Report: iii, 16 p.; Plate 4: 23.46 inches x 15.73 inches
Country United States
Additional Online Files (Y/N) Y
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