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Show PART IV RESOURCE AVAIIABILITY Table k - Principal mineral resources, Upper Colorado Region Resource Quantity Location and Remarks Uranium in sandstone Uranium in phosphate rock Vanadium Thorite Helium Gilsoni-fce Bitumen Lead Zinc Copper Silver Placer gold Iron ore Molybdenum Phosphate rock Potash Pyrite Trona Sand and gravel Crude oil Natural gas Coal Oil shale 127,000 tons 175,000 tons 2^0,000 tons 3,900 tons kl billion cu. ft. 36 million tons 15 million barrels 1.5 million tons ) 2.5 million tons ) 0.25 million tons ) 555 million ounces) 2 million ounces) 5 million tons 8 million tons 5,850 million tons 260 million tons Multi-million ton deposits 67 billion tons 6.7 billion barrels 103 trillion cu. ft, ihl billion tons 2 trillion barrels Mostly San Juan-Colorado Green River, very low grade Exploitable within uranium deposits Upper Main Stem 2/3 Green River, 1/3 San Juan- Colorado Green River 60 percent Green River; lj-0 percent San Juan-Colorado Upper Main Stem and San Juan- Colorado Over \ in Upper Main Stem. Most of remainder in San Juan-Colorado 65 percent iron, Upper Main Stem Mostly Upper Main Stem, tungsten as byproduct. Mostly Green River Minable by conventional methods Dolores County, Colorado 50 percent sulfur Source of natural sodium carbonate Widely distributed throughout the region Mostly in Green River Mostly in Green River Widely distributed 8,000 square miles of land in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah Rock asphalt 15 billion barrels Primarily in Utah |
