Geological and geochemical investigations of uranium occurrences in the Arrastre Lake area of the Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming

Miller, W.R.; Houston, Robert S.; Karlstrom, Karl E.; Hopkins, Daniel; Ficklin, Walter H.

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“…This suggestion received little attention by American geologists, but Canadian geologists familiar with the Huronian (Young, 1970) also suggested the correlation. As noted in the earlier report (Miller, et al, 1977), in the early 1970's Stewart Roscoe, formerly of the Canadian Geological Survey, who had done much of the detailed geologic study of the Blind River area in Canada, examined some conglomerates brought to his attention by one of the authors (Houston) and determined that they were slightly radioactive. To the writers' knowledge, Roscoe was the first person to recognize the presence of radioactive conglomerates in the region.…”

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“…A recent report (Miller, Houston, Karlstrom, Hopkins, and Ficklin, 1977) on geological and geochemical investigations of uranium occurrences in the Arrastre Lake area of the Medicine Bow Mountains of southeastern Wyoming ( fig. 1), indicates that the quartz-pebble conglomerate of the Deep Lake Formation, which crops out north and west of Arrastre Lake, may contain economic concentrations of uranium in the subsurface.…”

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Preliminary report on radioactive conglomerates of Middle Precambrian age in the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Mountains of southeastern Wyoming

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Graff²,

Karlstrom³

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Preliminary report on radioactive conglomerates of Middle Precambrian age in the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Mountains of southeastern Wyoming

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“…. Index (Miller, Houston, Karlstrom, Hopkins, and Ficklin, 1977) on geological and geochemical investigations of uranium occurrences in the Arrastre Lake area of the Medicine Bow Mountains of southeastern Wyoming indicates that the quartz-pebble conglomerate of the Precambrian Deep Lake Formation (Houston and others, 1968), where it crops out north and east of Arrastre Lake, may contain economic concentrations of uranium in the subsurface. Studies of similar conglomerates in other parts of the Medicine Bow Mountains and in the Sierra Madre (fig* 1) show that radioactive conglomerates are present in several areas in both ranges.…”

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Progress report on the study of radioactive quartz-pebble conglomerate of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Sierra Madre, southeastern Wyoming

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Desborough²,

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in 1978. GEOLOGIC BACKGROUND Precambrian miogeosynclinal metasedimentary rocks were first recognized in the Medicine Bow Mountains by Hague (Hague and Emmons, 1877), who gave a relatively good description of these rocks, located in the north-central Medicine Bow Mountains. They were later described in more detail by Van Hise (Van Hise and Leith, 1909) and Blackwelder (1926). Blackwelder (1926) gave the first complete description of these rocks and named various units in the upper part of the succession. Of particular interest is the fact that in a later paper Blackwelder (1935) noted that these miogeosynclinal rocks strongly resembled the Huronian rocks of the Great Lakes region. The first description of miogeosynclinal metasedimentary rocks in the Sierra Madre was by Spencer (1904), who made a superb reconnaissance study of almost the entire area.

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Geologic map of Precambrian metasedimentary rocks of the Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany and Carbon counties, Wyoming

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Tectonic significance of mafic intrusions 18 Plate tectonic model 19 Laramide structure 19 Faults of Tertiary age 20 References 20 Contents I HISTORY OF INVESTIGATIONS Geologic investigations began with the early territorial surveys of the United States government; a summary of 1 this early work is in Van Rise and Leith (1909, p. 833-849). Investigations between 1900 and 1968 are summarized in Houston and others (1968) and include a stratigraphic study by Blackwelder (1926) and regional mapping by students and staff of the University of Wyoming, which was sponsored by the Geological Survey of Wyoming. The U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Bureau of Mines conducted field studies in the Snowy Range Wilderness of the central Medicine Bow Mountains in 1976-78. The wilderness and parts of the Medicine Bow Mountains to the west and north were recognized as possible areas for uranium-and gold-bearing conglomerate of the Blind River type (Miller and others, 1977; Houston and others, 1977). For this reason, it was determined that additional geological and geochemical studies both within and outside of the wilderness area were needed in order to evaluate the mineral resource potential.

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Geological and geochemical investigations of uranium occurrences in the Arrastre Lake area of the Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming

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Preliminary report on radioactive conglomerates of Middle Precambrian age in the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Mountains of southeastern Wyoming

Preliminary report on radioactive conglomerates of Middle Precambrian age in the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Mountains of southeastern Wyoming

Progress report on the study of radioactive quartz-pebble conglomerate of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Sierra Madre, southeastern Wyoming

Geologic map of Precambrian metasedimentary rocks of the Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany and Carbon counties, Wyoming

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