Helium detection as a guide for uranium exploration

1976 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Michael Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Uranium Exploration

Becoming the Nuclear-Front-End

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (189) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Schukalla
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Reactor ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Uranium Mining ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Current State ◽  
Front End ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Uranium Exploration

Uranium mining often escapes the attention of debates around the nuclear industries. The chemical elements’ representations are focused on the nuclear reactor. The article explores what I refer to as becoming the nuclear front – the uranium mining frontier’s expansion to Tanzania, its historical entanglements and current state. The geographies of the nuclear industries parallel dominant patterns and the unevenness of the global divisions of labour, resource production and consumption. Clearly related to the developments and expectations in the field of atomic power production, uranium exploration and the gathering of geological knowledge on resource potentiality remains a peripheral realm of the technopolitical perceptions of the nuclear fuel chain. Seen as less spectacular and less associated with high-technology than the better-known elements of the nuclear industry the article thus aims to shine light on the processes that pre-figure uranium mining by looking at the example of Tanzania.

scholarly journals The Application of AMT Based on 3D Modelling Technology in Uranium Exploration in Huayangchuan Area, Shaanxi Province

2021 ◽  
Vol 1769 (1) ◽  
pp. 012022
Author(s):  
Li Bo ◽  
Ran Junlin ◽  
Liu Kuanhong ◽  
Yao Huiming ◽  
Tu Hong
Keyword(s):  
3D Modelling ◽  
Shaanxi Province ◽  
Uranium Exploration

scholarly journals Looking Deeper – Changing Tactics For Uranium Exploration

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-233
Author(s):  
Bruce L. Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Uranium Exploration

scholarly journals Correlation of VLF-EM Data with Radiometric Measurements: Implications for Uranium Exploration around Beldih, South Purulia Shear Zone, India

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh Mittal ◽  
S. P. Sharma ◽  
Arkoprovo Biswas ◽  
D. Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Shear Zone ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Uranium Mineralization ◽  
Subsurface Structure ◽  
High Radiation ◽  
Background Radiations ◽  
Radiometric Measurements ◽  
Uranium Exploration ◽  
Radioactive Minerals ◽  
Open Cast

This study is an attempt to correlate VLF-EM data with the radiometric measurements to decipher the subsurface structure and to locate uranium mineralization in the shear zone. The study area is around Beldih mine which is an open cast apatite mine located on the South Purulia Shear Zone. VLF method has been applied to map the structure and the presence of radioactive minerals has been delineated by the detection of highαandγcounts with respect to the background radiations. High radiation counts and high surfaceγactivity are found just above the higher apparent current-density zones in all the profiles studied, at various locations, indicating uranium and/or thorium mineralization as well as good correlation between these techniques.

Uranium and Vanadium Resources of Utah: An Update in the Era of Critical Minerals and Carbon Neutrality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie E. Mills ◽  
Bear Jordan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Paradox Basin ◽  
Carbon Neutrality ◽  
Uranium Exploration ◽  
San Juan County ◽  
Critical Minerals

Utah is the second largest vanadium producing state and the third largest uranium producing state in the United States. Carnotite, a primary ore mineral for both vanadium and uranium, was first discovered and used by Native Americans as a source of pigment in the Colorado Plateau hysiographic province of eastern Utah. Radioactive deposits have been ommercially mined in Utah since about 1900, starting with radium, followed by vanadium, and thenuranium. In 1952, the discovery of the Mi Vida mine in Utah’s Lisbon Valley mining district in San Juan County kicked off a uranium exploration rush across the Colorado Plateau. As a result, the United States dominated the global uranium market from the early 1950s to late 1970s. In the modern mining era, Utah is an important contributor to the domestic uranium and vanadium markets with the only operating conventional uranium-vanadium mill in the country, multiple uranium-vanadium mines on standby, and active uranium-vanadium exploration. Overall, Utah has produced an estimated 122 million lbs U3O8 and 136 million lbs V2O5 since 1904. Most of this production has been from the sandstone-hosted deposits of the Paradox Basin, with minor production from volcanogenic deposits and as byproducts from other operations across the state

Paradigmatic Shifts in the Uranium Exploration Process: Knowledge Brokers and the Athabasca Basin Learning Curve

SEG Discovery ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
James L. Marlatt ◽  
T. Kurt Kyser
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Development Effort ◽  
Organizational System ◽  
Exploration Process ◽  
Athabasca Basin ◽  
Uranium Exploration ◽  
The Status ◽  
Knowledge Brokers

ABSTRACT Uranium exploration increased over the past decade in response to an increase in the price of uranium, with more than 900 companies engaged in the global exploration on over 3,000 projects. Major economic discoveries of new uranium orebodies have been elusive despite global exploration expenditures of $3.2 billion USD, with most of the effort in historical uranium districts. The increased effort in exploration with minimal return can be described through the example of a cyclical model based on exploration and discovery in the prolific Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. The model incorporates exploration expenditure, quantities of discovered uranium, and the sequence of uranium deposit discoveries to reveal that discovery cycles are epochal in nature and that they are also intimately related to the development and deployment of new exploration technologies. Exploration in the Athabasca Basin can be divided into an early “prospector” phase and the current “model-driven”phase. The future of successful uranium exploration is envisaged as the “innovation exploration” stage in which a paradigmatic shift in the exploration approach will take the industry towards new discoveries by leveraging research and technology development. Effective engagement within the “innovation exploration” paradigm requires that exploration organizations recognize knowledge brokers, and adopt research, development, and technology transfer as a long-term, systematic strategy, including critical definition of exploration targets, identification of innovation frontiers needed, enhanced leadership to accurately portray the research and development imperative and elevation of the status of the research and development effort within the organizational system.

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