Uranium exploration geochemistry

KEYWORDS Unconformity Hosted Uranium Deposit, Nunavut, Geochemistry, Uranium Exploration, Oxygen Stable Isotopes... 

Keywords uranium, geochronology, basins, exploration, geochemistry... 

The rate and quantity of radon and uranium contributed to waters exposed to mineralized outcrops and the subsequent mobility of these elements in the present day environment has not been previously documented. This paper presents the results from leaching experiments carried out on uranium-enriched Horton Group sandstones in the Windsor area of Nova Scotia. Understanding of these processes is important both to environmental and exploration geochemistry. 

Dyck, W., 1975. Geochemistry applied to uranium exploration. Geol. Survey Canada, Paper 75-26, pp. 33-47. 

Grasty, R.L. (1979). Gamma ray spectrometric methods in uranium exploration— Theory and operational procedures. In Hood, P.J. (ed.). Geophysics and Geochemistry in the search for Metallic Ores (pp. 147-161). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Geological Survey of Canada, Economic Geology Report 31. 

P. R. Simpson, eds., in Uranium Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, Exploration and Resources, IMM, London, p. 43,1984. 

This report concerns the application of Pb isotope geochemistry in the exploration for unconformity-type uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan (Fig. 1). 2006 Pb isotope data from a number of current projects, several with U mineralization, will be discussed (Cigar Lake East, Close Lake, Midwest A, Wolly/McClean Lake, Cree-Zimmer project, and Shea Creek). 

Riese, W. C., Lee, M. J, Brookins, D, G, and Della Valle, R. 1978. Application of trace element geochemistry to prospecting for sandstone-type uranium deposits. In Watterson, J.R. and Theobald, R K. (ed.). Geochemical Exploration 1978, Proceedings of the Seventh International Geochemical Exploration Symposium. The Association of Exploration Geochemists, Rexdale, Ontario, Canada, 47-64. 

Rose, A.W., Wesolowski, D. and Smith, A.T., 1983. Groundwater geochemistry of uranium and other elements, Monticello area. New York. J. Geochem. Explor., 19 163-186. 

Giblin, A. M. 1987. Applications of groundwater geochemistry to genetic theories and exploration methods for early Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium deposits in Australia. Uranium 3 165-86. 

Smith D. K. Uranium mineralogy. In Uranium geochemistry, mineralogy, geology, exploration and resources De Vivo B. et at. eds (London IMM, 1984), 33-83. 

Uranium geochemistry, mineralogy, geology, exploration and resources... 

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