Uranium Ore Deposits / Месторождения урана

The emphasis of this volume is on the characterization of uranium deposits. Chapter 1 includes an introductory note in the form of a brief summary of world uranium resources and their definitions with respect to confidence classes and cost categories. This was considered justified insofar as an understanding of an ore deposit cannot be achieved from purely geological parameters. Economic considerations have to be included. Demand for the commodity and, in the western world, related price/cost factors dictate and define whether a localized metal concentration is a deposit that can be profitably exploited presently or in the future, or whether it is a mineral occurrence of only scientific value.
Uranium geochemistry has been dealt with in a more general or subordinate way in Chapter 2, intended to provide only the sufficient basic information needed within the scope of the work. R.W. Boyle (1982) has published a comprehensive review on uranium (and thorium) geochemistry and the reader is referred to this publication for detailed information on the subject. Concerning uranium metallogenesis, its principles are at present sufficiently well understood only for some types of deposits, whereas other types are understood to a lesser extent and in varying degrees. For this reason and to avoid too much speculation or geofantasy, the principal aspects of the genesis of uranium deposits have been addressed only briefly in a separate chapter (Chapter 3) and summarized in the presentation of types of deposits (Chapter 4). Nevertheless, Chapter 5 includes more detailed views based on published information of the deposits or districts selected as representative examples for the important and economic types of deposits. <...>

Geochemistry and Minerochemistry of Uranium

Principal Aspects of the Genesis of Uranium Deposits

Typology of Uranium Deposits

Selected Examples of Economically Significant Types of Uranium Deposits