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URANIUM MINERAL [1 record]

Record 1 2005-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radioactive Ores (Mining)
  • Mineralogy
CONT

Uranium minerals. More than 150 uranium-bearing minerals are known to exist, but only a few are common. The five primary uranium-ore minerals are pitchblende, uraninite, davidite, coffinite, and brannerite. These were formed by deep-seated hot solutions and are most commonly found in veins or pegmatites. The secondary uranium-ore minerals, altered from the primary minerals by weathering or other natural processes, are carnotite, tyuyamunite and metatyuyamunite ..., torbernite and metatorbernite, autunite and meta-autunite, and uranophane.

CONT

Sandstone uranium deposits occur as disseminated uraniferous minerals, mainly as pore fillings, in arenaceous rocks, that are predominantly of continental origin in post-Silurian successor or foreland basins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais radioactifs (Mines métalliques)
  • Minéralogie
CONT

[...] le minéral uranifère du Rand ne présente pas les structures colloformes si caractéristiques dans les pechblendes de filons [...]

CONT

[...] la carnotite et d'autres minéraux uranifères du plateau du Colorado, auraient précipité à partir de solutions percolant à travers les grès [...]

Spanish

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