학술논문

Development features of a supergene zone on a uranium-phosphorus deposit
Document Type
Journal Article
Author
Source
Int. Geol. Rev.; (United States); 22:9
Subject
58 GEOSCIENCES
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS PHOSPHORITES
WEATHERING
URANIUM DEPOSITS
ORE ENRICHMENT
PETROGENESIS
GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES
ENRICHMENT
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
MINERAL RESOURCES
MINERALS
ORE PROCESSING
PHOSPHATE ROCKS
PROCESSING
RESOURCES
ROCKS
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
SEPARATION PROCESSES 580300* -- Mineralogy, Petrology, & Rock Mechanics-- (-1989)
050100 -- Nuclear Fuels-- Reserves, Exploration, & Mining
Language
English
Abstract
It has been established that an old linear weathering crust developed on a layer-like, steeply dipping body of uraniferous phosphorites. In the upper part it consists of a karst cavity, and deeper down, an unusual deep-seated zone of layered oxidation immediately below which there is an enrichment zone of the phosphorites in a visible pitchblende mineralization. The latter is characterized by a series of specific features, spatially and genetically clearly associated with distinct supergene processes of hydrohematitization and hydrogeothitization, and is supergene in origin.