Report of Investigations 6828: Nonpegmatitic Beryllium Occurrences in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Four Adjacent States

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• Personal Author:
  Meeves, Henry C.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  The nonpegmatitic sources of beryllium in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and four adjacent states investigated by the Bureau of Mines are described. The investigations included 155 properties from which over 6,200 rock samples were collected; more than 5,500 samples were analyzed by the nuclear beryllium-detection technique. Twenty-four of the properties examined had rock containing more than 0.10 percent BeO. Many of the beryllium determinations were made in the field with portable detection instruments by direct scanning outcrops and by testing samples of rock brought to the instrument. The large domestic resources of low-grade nonpegmatitic beryllium ore in Utah, which were discovered by private enterprise and which respond favorably to small-scale treatment processes, may come into commercial use and thus reduce the dependence of the United States on imported beryl. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Metals Minerals Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Metallic-minerals Mineral-deposits Mining-industry
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• ISSN:
  1066-5552 (print)
• Publisher:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Case Report
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; Colorado ; New Mexico ; OSHA Region 6 ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Utah
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  TMRC - Tucson Metallurgy Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  73 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Griffits, W. R. ; Sharp, W. N. ; Hawley, C. C. ; Vaughn, W. W. ; Birmingham, J. M.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20036162
• Citation:
  Tucson, AZ: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 6828, 1966 Jan; :1-68
• CAS Registry Number:
  Beryllium oxide (CAS RN 1304-56-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1966
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Tucson, AZ: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 6828
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:bebdcd69f90847de114d504513f1a0bd24797d438612fc88bfd0fc5fea8b42ee4e7f5e56868ff4989d4f07479a54cef60b0ff7ac007968eb478f0a048c72e98c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201998/cdc_201998_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 18.13 MB ]