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This is the largest of the uranium ore fields on the Colorado Plateau. It is typical of so-called ‘sandstone type’ deposits that occur widely in the Plateau at several stratigraphic levels in Mesozoic sediments, as well as in several adjoining sedimentary basins.
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Granger, H. C. etal., (1961), Sandstone-type Uranium Deposits at Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico. Econ. Geol., 56, 1179–1210. [The major work on the area written at a time when the field was under active development.]
Page, L. R., Stocking, H. E., Smith, H. B., (1955), Contributions to the Geology of Uranium and Thorium by the United States Geological Survey and Atomic Energy Commission for the U.N. International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Geneva, Switzerland 1955 U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 300, 739pp. [A mammoth volume which includes a number of important papers on the Colorado Plateau region.]
Ridge, J. D., (1968), Ore Deposits of the United States, 1933–1967. American Inst, of Min. Met. and Petrol. Eng. New York. [Chapter 6 of this volume is devoted to the Colorado deposits, shorter and more up-to-date than Page etal. (1955) and contains a good description of the Ambrosia Lake area in a paper by Kelley etal., pp.752–769.]
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Dixon, C.J. (1979). The Ambrosia Lake Uranium Field — U.S.A.. In: Atlas of Economic Mineral Deposits. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6511-2_18
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