FLOOD10384 ‎(2)‎

• County: Statewide
• Title: Natural Resources of Colorado
• Date: 1/1/1963
• Prepared By: US Department of the Interior
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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(Above) The American Gilsonite Company, Fruita, Colo-
rado, makes gasoline and other. motor fuels and electrode
carbon from gilsonite, mined at nearby Bonanza, Utah.
The gilsonite is mined hydraulically and transported in a
pipeline as slurry to the plant shown here.

(Left) Typical oil shale rocks line a Colorado highway.
Of great potential use to man, these shales OCCur in large
accumulations in northwest Colorado, and may Some day
be used to offset crucial petroleum shortages.

(Below) Colorado is rich in many mineral resources. A
U.S. Vanadium Company plant in Rifle processes ore
from the Four Corners area, producing both vanadium
and uranium.

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