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John C. Antweiler

Publications and source records attributed to John C. Antweiler.

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U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ALASKAN GOLD PROJECT.

The United States Geological Survey has begun a state-wide study of Alaskan gold deposits. The immediate goals are to determine the relationship of gold in placer deposits to possible primary sources, to determine how nuggets form, to contribute to existing knowledge of principles for prospecting for placer deposits, and determine if minerals associated with placer deposits might suggest important deposits of other metals. The project started in 1982 with a study of placer mines in the Brooks Range.

Conference Paper↗

Uranium content and leachability of some igneous rocks and their geochemical significance

The uranium content and its leachability in 442 igneous rocks if wide variety were measured. Four-gram samples, crushed below 38 mesh, were leached in in 0.05 M HNO 3 for half an hour at 80 to 85° C; the leachate and undissolved residue were analyzed fluorimetrically. This study explored the relation of uranium content and leachability to petrography. With few exceptions, the relations between uranium content, uranium leachability, rock leachability, rock type, and mineral composition seem to be random. Uranium content and leachability in homogeneous outcrops vary erratically, in heterogeneous outcrops the variation appears nonsystematic. Correlations with geologic environment indicate that uranium content and leachability are largely controlled by geologic processes during and after crystallization.

Trace Elements Investigations↗