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Image: General distribution of carnotite-bearing deposits in Four Corners region, 1952

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Description: Index map of part of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, showing the general distribution of carnotite-bearing deposits as known in 1952. Compiled for use by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The report from which this map comes notes that carnotite was the "principal domestic sources of uranium and vanadium."
Title: General distribution of carnotite-bearing deposits in Four Corners region, 1952
Credit: "Geology of the Uravan Mineral Belt," CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF URANIUM, 1952, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 988-A https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0988a/report.pdf
Author: R. P. Fischer and L. S. Hilpert
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