Crossword-Solution: CARNOTITE 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The important commercial deposits of Colorado and Utah contain carnotite, together with roscoelite (a vanadium mica) and small amounts of chromium, copper, and molybdenum minerals, as impregnations of flat-lying Jurassic sandstones.

Pitchblende is the best, but carnotite, which is a gray rock with yellowish streaks, is also good ore.

Then, when the victim was allowed to try panning gold for himself, he'd come up with the nuggets and think he was getting natural gold." "And in this case, powdered carnotite was used in the fields, and chunks were put in the mine, to make victims think uranium was present," Rick added.

With two assistants and a complete equipment of scientific instruments, I began the exploration of a deserted working in a mountainous district, where several weeks before, a number of mining engineers had reported traces of carnotite[1] and what they believed to be radioactive gases.

Again, little-understood minerals, or those that have been very little worked and yet may have a value in the future, such as bauxite, which is valuable in the manufacture of aluminum; monazite sand, which is used in the making of the Welsbach incandescent light; and carnotite, whose value as a radium ore has been discovered within the past ten years--should all be made to yield royalties to the Government.