Uranium Reconnaissance of the Black Mountain-Yale Point Area, Black Mesa, Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona

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A reconnaissance for uranium was conducted in the Black Mountain-Yale Point area of Black Mesa, Arizona, from February to November 1954. Numerous uranium deposits were examined, which appear to be situated in areas of greater tectonic deformation and confined to a single stratigraphic zone in the Toreva formation of the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde group. Locally thc uranium appears to occur in the vicinity of carbonized plant material in quartzose sand lenses, within paleostream channel deposits. Uranium mineralization apparently occurred after original lithification of the sedimentary deposits. Vanadium clays replaced the original cement, and in turn were replaced by secondary uranium minerals, chiefly tyuyamunite or carnotite. The most promising part of Black Mesa, for future uranium production, appears to lie northeast of a line drawn from Black Mountain northwestward to Marsh Pass.

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