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Publications and source records attributed to Richard I. Grauch.
A mineral assessment study was undertaken by Barringer Resources, Inc., Golden, Colorado, on behalf of the Bureau of Land Management covering the Arkansas Canyon Planning Unit in south-central Colorado near Canon City. A total of 700 stream-sediment samples were collected (Plate I) and subsequently analyzed by Barringer Resources.
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This report updates U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-780 by including new field data taken in July 1978. A revised geologic map is included, as are new geophysical data from an approximately 0.3-km by 0.5-km area just northeast of and adjoining the area surveyed earlier. The pattern which had been observed to the southwest of spatially coincident radiometric highs, magnetic highs, and resistivity lows deteriorates to the northeast: there the radiometric highs fall on magnetic lows and the correlation with resistivity lows disappears.
Uraninite of Precambrian age occurs locally in and around a massive sulfide deposit at Camp Smith, Westchester and Putnam Counties, New York. The host rocks are believed to be part of a sequence of marine sediments and submarine volcanogenic rocks that were metamorphosed to leucogneisses, amphibolites, and amphoholite gneisses in the granulite facies. Ore grade concentrations of uraninite occur (1) in the outer Cu-Ni-bearing zone of the sulfide body; (2) in magnetite-rich and scapolite-rich layers within amphibolite gneiss; and (3) in amphibole-quartz-feldspar + pyroxene pegmatites. The uranium-rich horizons are generally near the contact between rocks of keratophyre and spilite affinities. It is suggested that the iron oxide, uranium-rich, and sulfide-rich horizons and their host rocks were originally deposited in the distal, volcanogenic, massive sulfide environment.
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