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Preliminary summary of reconnaissance for uranium on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, During 1951

Trace Elements Memorandum 322
This report concerns work done on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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https://doi.org/10.3133/tem322

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Abstract

Reconnaissance examinations for uranium were made at nine localities in the York, Nome, and Koyuk districts of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, during .the 1951 field season. In addition carborne radiometric traverses were made of four roads in the Nome and Council districts. Only at Brooks Mountain in the York district are uranium-bearing deposits that required detailed study. On the southwest flank of Brooks Mountain, zeunerite occurs as a surface coating on quartz-tourmaline veins occupying joint fractures in granite| at a second locality, also on the southwest flank of the mountain, zeunerite is disseminated in a highly-weathered, altered zone of granite near a contact with limestone. Preliminary radiometric analyses show an average of about 0.05 percent equivalent uranium in the vein material and about 0.07 percent equivalent uranium in the weathered, altered granitic zone.

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White, M., West, W., 1952, Preliminary summary of reconnaissance for uranium on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, During 1951: U.S. Geological Survey Trace Elements Memorandum 322, Report: 14 p.; Plate: 20.42 inches x 16.93 inches, https://doi.org/10.3133/tem322.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Preliminary summary of reconnaissance for uranium on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, During 1951
Series title Trace Elements Memorandum
Series number 322
DOI 10.3133/tem322
Year Published 1952
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description Report: 14 p.; Plate: 20.42 inches x 16.93 inches
Country United States
State Alaska
Other Geospatial Seward Peninsula
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