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Weston Uranium Occurrence #1

Occurrence in Windsor county in Vermont, United States with commodity Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081602
MRDS ID W033736
Record type Site
Current site name Weston Uranium Occurrence #1
Alternate or previous names Unnamed

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.77282, 43.34719 (WGS84)
Elevation 518
Relative position 4.0 MILES NORTH, NORTHEAST OF WESTON, VT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Windsor(county)

Vermont(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Weston(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Claremont(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Glens Falls(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

West River-Connecticut River(hydrologic unit)

Upper Connecticut(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Vermont Windsor

Comments on the location information

  • OCCURRENCE IS IN THE BROOK BED JUST EAST ROUTE 100 IN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF WESTON TOWNSHIP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore
Graphite Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Mount Holly Complex
    Rock description Mount Holly Complex
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) Tonalite gneiss
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N60W
    Dip 40NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1979

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • HIGH RADIATION DETECTED BY A SCINTILLOMETER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RATTE, C.A., 1984, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION

  • Deposit

    RATTE, C.A., UNPUBLISHED FIELD DESCRIPTIONS FOR THE OKEMO STATE FOREST.

  • Deposit

    Ratte, C.A. 1984, Unpublished Map Of Okemos State Forest, Vermont.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANOMALY OCCURS IN A MASSIVE QUARTZITE BED, SURROUNDED BY PYRITE-RICH, GRAPHITIC SCHISTS. RADIOACTIVE ZONE OCCURS ALONG FOLIATION PLANES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Editor 01-JAN-2003 L. G. Woodruff U.S. Geological Survey checked references; location; commodities; ore materials
Updater 01-APR-1986 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation
Reporter 01-SEP-1984 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation

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