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<br />OJ2165 <br /> <br />per pound t!66.14 per 'kiJ production cost category and classed as probably <br /> <br />potential."19 Also, Recording to Chenoweth, "Records of ERDA indicate a <br /> <br />production of 1,607,4 tons J!,458,311 metric ton~ averaging 0.13 <br /> <br /> <br />percent U308 and contR;ning 4,124,844 pounds 11,871,029 k&] of U308 <br /> <br /> <br />from 14 properties in the Maybell area. With the exception of 807 tons <br /> <br /> <br />averaging 0.14 percent U308 and containing 2,306 pounds'(f,046 k&J <br /> <br /> <br />'U308, which was produced from two properties in the Wasatch Formation, <br /> <br /> <br />all of the production came from the Browns Park Formation." <br /> <br />Owing to the recent substantial uranium price increases, the uranium <br /> <br />'___-=~=_11Ii11Hat~MaybeI1;~Ylhich-'-has-been,dismantled for a number of years, is the <br /> <br />site of a new heap-leaching facility being built to recover uranium from <br /> <br />low-grade ore. Further increases in the price of uranium would change <br /> <br />large marginal uranium ore deposits in the Browns Park Formation from a <br /> <br />potential resource into a minable energy source. <br /> <br />Minor amounts of uranium associated with copper have been observed <br /> <br />in a landslide above Red Creek in the Red Creek Quartzite in S~ sec 5, <br /> <br />T 2 N, R 24 E.20 During the 1950's other uranium occurrences were found <br /> <br />in the area, but none of commercial significance. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />19Chenoweth, W. L. Personal communication, Sept. 23, 1976, Energy Research <br /> <br />- <br />and Development Administration, Grand Junction, Colo. <br /> <br />20Hansen, W. R. The 'Geology of the Flaming Gorge Area, Utah-Colorado- <br /> <br />Wyoming. U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 490, 1965, p. 184. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.12 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />f <br />