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Uranium mineralization in the Burro Mountains, New Mexico

Elliot Gillerman
Uranium mineralization in the Burro Mountains, New Mexico
Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists (May 1968) 63 (3): 239-246

Abstract

In the White Signal district, secondary uranium phosphates occur in the oxidized portions of gold-pyrite-quartz veins and in adjacent fractures. Nature of primary mineralization is unknown. Concentrations are believed to result from oxidation of veins and fixation of uranium by phosphate from neighboring diabase dikes. In the Bullard Peak district, uraninite is associated with nickel and cobalt arsenides and sulfarsenides toward the margins of veins that have native silver in their central portions. The uraninite may represent the last phase of silver and base-metal mineralization or be related fluorspar and gold mineralization of nearby areas. Its source is probably a nearby Laramide monzonitic intrusion.


ISSN: 0361-0128
EISSN: 1554-0774
Coden: ECGLAL
Serial Title: Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists
Serial Volume: 63
Serial Issue: 3
Title: Uranium mineralization in the Burro Mountains, New Mexico
Author(s): Gillerman, Elliot
Pages: 239-246
Published: 196805
Text Language: English
Publisher: Economic Geology Publishing Company, Lancaster, PA, United States
Accession Number: 1968-052304
Categories: Economic geology of ore deposits
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus., table, geol. map
N31°30'00" - N37°00'00", W109°04'60" - W103°00'00"
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
Update Code: 1968
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