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<br />BUREAU OF ll!U!ES <br /> <br />(fig, 7). Both ruins are on the vest abutment and would be eradicated in <br />building the dam. No excavations have been ~ade thus far at either site. <br /> <br />COi~CLUSlONS <br /> <br />These lands have an oil and gas potential, although this will be <br />difficult to reduce to dollar terms. Production of oil or gas need not <br />interfere in operating the reservoir. nor would the reservoir necessarily <br />hamper operation of an oil alld [as field should it exist, <br /> <br />Although sodium chloride is present. it v1l1 be l1!al1y years before <br />it can be profitably produced. <br /> <br />The likelihooQ of' finding cO!'lll1erc1al_grade uranium ore in the Shina- <br />rump, Chinle. and J:.!crrison formations under the reservoir site is remote, <br />but it is e. possibility. The presence of a reservoir should not affect <br />extraction 01' ore from the Shinarump and Chinle formG-tion!l. but it ma.v be <br />necessary to backfill any mine openings that might be made in producine <br />uranium from the ll,orrison fO:rI:lation. <br /> <br />~...,\ <br />">J <br /> <br />93 <br /> <br />,'- -~. <br />