Graduate Thesis Or Dissertation

Abstract

• Uranium ore was discovered in the Indian Creek area, Gunnison and Saguache counties Colorado in the fall of 1955. The ore is associated with fold and fault structures in Paleozoic sediments and in fault fissures in Precambrian rocks near the Paleozoic rocks.

  Essentially flat, bedded type deposits in the Harding quartzite appear to be controlled by fold structures. Vein-type deposits in the area are associated with a large north-trending, east-dipping thrust fault and subsidiary faults related to the thrust
  fault.

  An interpretation of spectrographic analyses of mineralized
  and unmineralized host rocks suggest a hydrothermal origin of the uranium deposits. The lack of commercial quantities of uranium in geologically similar mining districts near the Indian Creek area suggests that commercial uranium deposits occur around the fringes of base and precious metal mining districts rather than within
  the districts.

Creator

• Ranspot, Henry Wood

Date Issued

• 1958

Academic Affiliation

• Geology

Advisor

• Warmer, Lawrence

Degree Grantor

• University of Colorado Boulder

Commencement Year

• 1958

Publisher

• University of Colorado Boulder

Last Modified

• 2022-11-08

Resource Type

• Masters Thesis

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

Language

• English [eng]

Relationships

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• University Libraries Digitized Theses 189x-20xx

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