Determination of thorium and of rare earth elements in cerium earth minerals and ores
M. K. Carron, D. L. Skinner, R.E. Stevens
1955, Analytical Chemistry (27) 1058-1061
The conventional oxalate method for precipitating thorium and the rare earth elements in acid solution exhibits definite solubilities of these elements. The present work was undertaken to establish conditions overcoming these solubilities and to find optimum conditions for precipitating thorium and the rare earth elements as hydroxides and sebacates. The...
Rare-earth mineral deposits of the Mountain Pass District, San Bernardino County, California, with a foreword on history of the discovery at Mountain Pass, California
J. C. Olson, D. R. Shawe, L.C. Pray, W. N. Sharp, D. F. Hewett
1954, Professional Paper 261
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Thorium and rare earth minerals in the Powderhorn district, Gunnison County, Colorado
Jerry C. Olson, Stewart R. Wallace
1954, Trace Elements Investigations 353
Thorium has been found since 1949 in at least 33 deposits in an area 6 miles wide and 20 miles long in the Powderhorn district, Gunnison County, Colo. The district is composed largely of pre-Jurassic metamorphic and igneous rocks, which are chiefly if not entirely pre-Cambrian in age. The metamorphic...
Radioactive deposits in California
George W. Walker, Tom G. Lovering
1954, Trace Elements Investigations 229
Reconnaissance examination by Government geologists of many areas, mine properties, and prospects in California during the period between 1948 and 1953 has confirmed the presence of radioactive materials in place at more than 40 localities. Abnormal radioactivity at these localities is due to concentrations of primary and secondary uranium minerals,...
The copper and uranium deposits of the Coyote district, Mora County, New Mexico
C.M. Tschanz, D.C. Laub, G.W. Fuller
1954, Trace Elements Investigations 356
The copper and uranium-vanadium deposits of the Coyote district, Mora County, N. Mec, are confined to the lower 2,000 feet of the Sangre de Gristo formation of Pennsylvanian and Permian age. A narrow belt of deposits in steeply dipping or overturned rocks extends for 7 miles along Coyote Creek south...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory record book 1954
1954, Report
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) record books are annual journals in which field observations of eruptive activity at Kīlauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes, on the Island of Hawaiʻi, were compiled by HVO staff for most years from 1912 through early 1966. In addition to descriptive observations, the record books also...
A chemical-spectrochemical method for the determination of rare earth elements and thorium in cerium minerals
H. J. Rose Jr., K. J. Murata, M. K. Carron
1954, Spectrochimica Acta (6) 161-168
In a combined chemical-spectrochemical procedure for quantitatively determining rare earth elements in cerium minerals, cerium is determined volumetrically, a total rare earths plus thoria precipitate is separated chemically, the ceria content of the precipitate is raised to 80·0 percent by adding pure ceria, and the resulting mixture is analyzed for...
Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in the Nixon Fork mining district, Medfra Quadrangle, central Alaska, 1949
Max G. White, John M. Stevens
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 75
Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in the Nixon Fork mining district, Medfra quadrangle, central Alaska, in 1949 disclosed the occurrence of allanite in sampled containing as much as 0.05 percent equivalent uranium from the dump of the Whalen mine; the presence of radioactive parisite (a rare-earth fluocarbonate) in a highly altered...
Monazite deposits of the southeastern Atlantic States
John Beaver Mertie
1953, Circular 237
Monazite, a phosphate of the rare earths, is the principal mineral from which the cerium earths and thorium are obtained. Fluviatile monazite placers were mined in the Piedmont province of North and South Carolina from 1887 to 1911, and again intermittently from 1915 to 1917; but the principal sources In...
Reconnaissance geology of placer deposits containing radioactive minerals in the Bear Valley district, Valley County, Idaho
J. Hoover Mackin, Dwight Lyman Schmidt
1953, Open-File Report 53-167
A reconnaissance of the Bear Valley district was undertaken to provide a geologic interpretation of placer deposits drilled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines. The placer minerals are monazite and a group of uranium bearing rare earth columbates and tantalates here referred to loosely as radioactive blacks. The monazite is...
Reconnaissance for radioactive materials in northeastern United States during 1952
Francis A. McKeown, Harry Klemic
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 317
Reconnaissance for radioactive materials was made in parts of Maine, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The primary objective was to examine the iron ore deposits and associated rocks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Highlands of New Jersey. In addition, several deposits known or reported to...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory record book 1953
1953, Report
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) record books are annual journals in which field observations of eruptive activity at Kīlauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes, on the Island of Hawaiʻi, were compiled by HVO staff for most years from 1912 through early 1966. In addition to descriptive observations, the record books also...
Radioactive source materials in Los Estados Unidos de Venezuela
Donald G. Wyant, William N. Sharp, Carlos Ponte Rodriguez
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 222
This report summarizes the data available on radioactive source materials in Los Estados Unidos de Venezuela accumulated by geologists of the Direccions Tecnica de Geolgia and antecedent agencies prior to June 1951, and the writers from June to November 1951. The investigation comprised preliminary study, field examination, office studies, and the...
Preliminary reconnaissance survey for thorium, uranium, and rare-earth oxides, Bear Lodge Mountains, Crook County, Wyoming
V.R. Wilmarth, Douglas H. Johnson
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 172
An area about 6 miles north of Sundance, in the Bear Lodge Mountains, in Crook County, Wyo., was examined during August 1950 for thorium, uranium, and rare-earth oxides and samples were collected. Uranium is known to occur in fluorite veins and iron-manganese veins and in the igneous rocks of Tertiary age...
Method for determination of small amounts of rare earths and thorium in phosphate rocks
C. L. Waring, H. Mela Jr.
1953, Analytical Chemistry (25) 432-435
In laboratory investigations, interest developed in the possible rare-earth content of phosphate samples from Florida and the northwestern United States. Because of the difficulty of making chemical determinations of traces of individual rare earths, a combined chemical-spectrographic method was investigated. After removal of iron by the extraction of the chloride...
Systematic variation of rare earths in monazite
K. J. Murata, H. J. Rose Jr., M. K. Carron
1953, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (4) 292-300
Ten monazites from widely scattered localities have been analyzed for La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Y and Th by means of a combined chemical and emission spectrographic method. The analytical results, calculated to atomic percent of total rare earths (thorium excluded), show a considerable variation in the proportions of...
Geology of the Quartz Creek Pegmatite District, Gunnison County Colorado
Mortimer H. Staatz, A.F. Trites
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 138
The Quartz Creek pegmatite district includes an area about 29 square miles in the vicinity of Quartz Creek in Gunnison County,. Colo. This area contains 1,803 pegmatites that are intruded into pre-Cambrian rocks. The rocks exposed in the district range in age from pre-Cambrian to Recent. The oldest pre-Cambrian rocks are...
The Permian phosphorite deposits of western United States
V.E. McKelvey, Roger Warren Swanson, Richard Porter Sheldon
1952, Open-File Report 53-166
The Permian marine phosphorite deposits of the western United States were laid down in the Phosphoria formation and its partial stratigraphic equivalents over an area of about 135,000 square miles in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. The deposits in the eastern part of the field lie on the western...
Geologic setting of the Mountain Pass rare earth deposits, San Bernardino County, California
Jerry Chipman Olson
1952, Open-File Report 52-110
The Mountain Pass district is in a block of pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks bounded on the east and south by the alluvium of Ivanpah Valley. This block is separated from Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks on the west by the Clark Mountain normal fault, and the northern boundary of...
The determination of small amounts of rare earths in phosphate rocks
Claude L. Waring, Henry Mela Jr.
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 239
Geologic map of bastnaesite deposits, Birthday claims, San Bernardino County, California
W. N. Sharp, L.C. Pray
1952, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 4
In April 1949 a deposit containing considerable quantities of the rare mineral bastnaesite - the fluorocarbonate of cerium, lanthanum, and other rare earths - was discovered near Mountain Pass, San Bernardino County, Calif. Small quantities of bastnaesite have been found in several places in the United States, but this area...
Pegmatites of the Crystal Mountain district, Larimer County, Colorado
William R. Thurston
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 139
The Front Range of Colorado is composed chiefly of schists of the pre-Cambrian Idaho Springs formation which have been intruded by a variety of granitic batholiths. In the Crystal Mountain district the Mount Olympus granite, a satellite of the Longs Peak batholith, forms sills and essentially concordant multiple intrusions in...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory record book 1952
1952, Report
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) record books are annual journals in which field observations of eruptive activity at Kīlauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes, on the Island of Hawaiʻi, were compiled by HVO staff for most years from 1912 through early 1966. In addition to descriptive observations, the record books also...
Geologic map of the baritic carbonate body near Mountain Pass, San Bernardino County, California
William N. Sharp, Jerry Chipman Olson
1951, Open-File Report 51-38
A geologic map of an important deposit of rare earth metals studied recently by Geological Survey geologists near Mountain Pass, California has been completed Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman announced today. The discovery of this deposit was announced on January 16, and because of the great interest that...
Preliminary report on the stratigraphy and structure of the Shaviovik and upper Sagavanirktok Rivers area, Alaska
A. Samuel Keller, Robert L. Detterman
1951, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 36
During the 1951 field season, U. S. Geological Survey Navy Oil Unit party 1 conducted stratigraphic and structural studies of the rocks in the area between the westernmost fork of the Shaviovik River and the East Kuparuk River. This area is drained by the Sagavanirktok River and its major tributaries;...
