The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-07-08
WHERE RAOIUM FOUND IS
FIELD FOR PROSPECTOR
PECULIAR GEOLOGICAL coNDI-
TloNS THAT PRODUCED THIS
RARE ELEMENT.

chemists of Salt Lake City. have is
sued an interesting letter descriptive
of the carnoute district lying in Utah
and Colorado and the opportunities Of
fered the prospector. The field COW
ers approximately 5000 square miles
and climatic and all other conditions
ore favorable for prospecting during
most of the year. CaInotite ore con
tains both uranium and vanadium,
and it is from the former that radium
is obtained. while the latter is used
to give toughness to steel The letter
in part follows:
carnotite District.
The district which contains this
carnotite field lies in Montrose and
san Miguel counties Colorado and in
Grand and san Juan counties, Utah.
Entrance to the Colorado area is from
Placerville Colorado, by easy wagon
road to Paradox. distance of about
so miles, and to the Utah area the
entrance is via Thompson and Moab.
The carnotte strata are found about
20 miles south of Moab and thence
still further south for some rs miles
from Moab. The Colorado geological
..,,,,.o,. as,i,,,,,,s ,ho .,o. .s q ooo
square miles in Colorado, and it would
-, .l,o,,, t,,. $40 e,.,,ro h, trt.b
!. r,.,, ha col. sota tho ,..so,t
-, 49,, &. ~, ,a.. ,,,.,, e. ooo g.,
miles. most of which has not been
prospected at all.
Characteristics of Ore.
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- ninth. .oi, CO.. .,a ,oio,ir,.
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a.. -. 80 ..,,,,, ..+ WON. .,,ft
orr, 3, oo,,,os il, ,,..o,,,o..l form,
o soe, os NIT. ~. ,.,iio,, mud
,,,n,a,, oa', ~, ,,.o.,.aa j., n,o enrors
m, -, ~. ,.,.., ,,,..., ,,,.,,,
,,eol,,s ,,orl, in corrotite ,oipino
oa,,, ana an,. ,,,inor Nm ,.co.,,i,o
-, .,,t,,or,t.. i,.,,,,i,.. ,tn
,,,on,,,,s ,,,or,, il, o. ,o'r,o,it, ,,inir,.
,o,,,,, o,,d on o,,so,.,.o.,+ ,,in,,. vim Inc
o,1a oio.oi,. o., ..+i,,,,to .,. ,.,i,,o of
,,o ORC Go ,o,ol, for ooso of ido,H-
e,.,,,,. ..o ono p.i,+o.l ,.ou,,,. ,nd
biool, os - is o.rnotito o5,ortisos -
so,r a. t,,o soo,,a,
c,r,o.ito Tro.s
corno,i,o orc I,os IN n,o horizontal
sond.to,a haas of f,o Ia pi,to fo,
motto, D,,rip. tno tir,e +bo Ia
p,ota beds ,,ore hei,r Ioid dow, n
forest of trees covered fine nresent
car,otite areo Those trees topnled
over were drlv hurled i'm tbe sends
ana later this vegetable matter was
.oriacoa b, the ,,i,or,i,,atio, ,,o
now reoo.nize ,s cor,otito !, fact
Tho LARGO danosits of carnotite occur
nc .trees" From, ono t,ee eo5 ooo ,,,os
recovered in q very short fine. an
Other free" Welded se ooo recentl,,-
and This small one Fifteen sacl,e
of ore n 900 lbs) mined in one small
snot u,as sbinned , fe,y do,,s aoo and
hro,,ght the miner $4,000 Therefore
the obiect Of search is n "tree Often
IA. - hn,,,,, ,oo+ ~. .,..,,
,bo eide Of tho a,c,ent t,,,l, is e~
nosaa in tha e,,ieh erosion win fhis
sn,au bit ~ Oh ON tbo .tr,eo,, is stead
ala. ,,,,o,.ora3 o,,s +l,, orc mined n,
his recept examination of fine carno-
ti,e oroo Mr. A6s,nso, saw, , enlcb |
oho,t On foot ,,,do ON Tho siaos or /
which ,,ore the roots and tins resnec-
.,,.o,,. -, ~, a,o,.,,,o,,s to- -rnoso
,oots o,d fins were heino ,oired b,t |
,r.o 80. "a. ~ ,,o to- h,a Tai, |
.,,,,,..,,.,,... ~, ,1,o ,.,,lo,, ona ,,.a.. oroa
cd h,. +he s+roaro rbo minors car,e /
so,-oroi t,,na,oas Of thousands of
,,ears foo loto 70 oct that .tree sam
Mos of car,otite ore nj o,- lahora-
tor,. SHOW, tho hari, str,ct,,re and the
,.,,os oe Growth ,e,eectl,. i'm tho .re
,,l,oe5" GRO
S,,ds4o,o Eor,,,,.;o,
Tho Ia ploto eaDdstoros have
tbicl,ress Of abort 1oo foet and so
far as NOW known IL &c only nroet-
obie IN r,.se a searcb i'm This bo,d-
ION The sandstone is white and
easnv DISTINGUISHED from fine red