The Geology and Production History of the Starlight and Starlight East Uranium Mines, Navajo County, Arizona

The Starlight and Starlight East Mines were two of fifteen uranium deposits located by exploration drilling in the Oljeto syncline area of Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona. Of all the deposits that were mined, the Starlight East was the fourth largest and the Starlight was the fifth largest. In his compilation of data of uranium in Arizona, Scarborough (1981, p.22S) did not separate the ore production of these two separate mines. Most of the information in the this report is from U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) documents. Unfortunately, no maps of the mine workings could be located. This report is the last of the series on uranium mines in the Monument Valley area of Navajo County, Arizona (See Appendix 1).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)