The Black Mustache Uranium - Vanadium Mine, Apache County, Arizona and the Probable Source of the Ore Shipments.

Robert Scarborough (1981, p. 107) in his compilation of uranium in Arizona was unable to find much information on the Black Mustache mine. Records of the u.s. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) noted that the mine was located in the Monument Valley area of Apache County, Arizona. The legal location of the mine was recently obtained by the author in the old Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) records, stored in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) archives in Phoenix, Arizona. Recollections by a former AEC geologist, who worked in Monument Valley, shed some light on the probable source of the ore shipments. Additional information is from AEC documents. The author was employed by the AEC on the Navajo Indian Reservation during the years 1953-1963.Documents in the AZGS Documents Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact azgs-info@email.arizona.edu)