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SANDSTONE-HOSTED DEPOSIT [1 record]

Record 1 2006-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radioactive Ores (Mining)
DEF

A type [of deposit] that occurs in sandstone.

CONT

An immense amount of literature in English has been written for sandstone-hosted uranium deposits, perhaps a hundredfold more numerous than for other sandstone-hosted deposits.

OBS

Individual deposits have been variously referred to as syngenetic, sedimentary, syndiagenetic, diagenetic, stratiform, concordant, peneconcordant, stratabound, stratiform, sediment-hosted, shale-hosted, sandstone-hosted and carbonate-hosted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais radioactifs (Mines métalliques)
DEF

Type de minéralisation qu'on trouve dans des grès.

Spanish

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