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Show Mineral Studv of Area Released by Utah Ag . Publication of Utah Geological Geol-ogical and Mineralogical Survey Special Studies 24, Part I, "Mineral Resources, San Juan County, Utah, and Adjacent Areas," was announced an-nounced today by Dr. William Wil-liam P. Hewitt, Survey Director. Di-rector. The study, which was proposed pro-posed by the Water and Power Pow-er board of the state of Utah and carried out in coopcra- 1 tion with the U.S. Board of Reclamation, covers all of San Juan County and the southern one-third of Grand County, Utah, and the western west-ern portions or wresa, San Miguel, Montrose, and Dolores Do-lores Counties, Colorado. Essentially Es-sentially a compilation ot literature references on the area, the work has been expanded ex-panded by considerable field checking, as well as, original data from UG&MS fdes Special Studies 24 is d.v.d-ed d.v.d-ed into two parts: Part I-Petrolcum. I-Petrolcum. Potash, Groundwater Ground-water and Miscellaneous Serais, and Part II, Uranium. Uran-ium. Part II is in press and should be available to the public within the month. Dr. uoiimnr IL Roelling, econ- omic geology , Survey, p;. ft, "I on ground..;. U ellaneous l uranium; WJ . UG&MS 0 authored the j,.- & potash papers. jjif The Petroleuj, . the study bri of petroleum t; development in summarizes trends and prcjj? and penetration & region's oil ' are included in t pocket lie manner in i adox Formation ' deposited and the sfructures in deposits are plained in the j-V" The study also potash resent Ifl methods and the outlook for -in the area. The grourxfc . 1? synthesizes all j-. lished prior to dies 24 and a si- : mount of new - j quality was a.- respect to geoije-T I ers, location Ml from source of I1 take areas. N:"-. inity charts a-d ! are incded in"". 0 water s-xtoa. : Included anr Juan proj-?ct important mieri f are petroleum, M nadium arid pr is of less izc-yr- i and oer ts ' . produced, or bris:- U tial for protert'l. , , cussed b the rtv -' minerals sect::- 'Mineral Ecsr:- Q Juan County, Uti r 5 jace-r.t Areas." ca: C ; chased for S3 53 .f t'Gi:S offices. Z l Gc-izksl S-rer r L-niversity of Ui fl Lake City. Utac fd |