Uranium deposits of the world. USA and Latin America / Месторождения урана в мире. США и Латинская Америка

An important prerequisite to the long-term use of nuclear energy is information on uranium ore deposits from which uranium can be economically exploited. Hence the basic purpose of this book is to present an overview of uranium geology and data characteristic for uranium districts and deposits in the United States of America and Latin American countries. With respect to the classification terminology of uranium deposits used in this volume, the reader is referred to the typological classification system of uranium deposits presented in Part I Typology of Uranium Deposits in the first volume of the series Uranium Deposits of the World - Asia (Dahlkamp 2009).
An additional goal is to provide access for the interested reader to the voluminous literature on uranium geology. Therefore a register of bibliography as global as possible, extending beyond the immediate need for this book, is provided.
The original concept of this work, which was to provide an encyclopedia of uranium deposits of the world in a single publication, was soon doomed. The material grew out of all feasible proportions for a book of acceptable size and price as a wealth of data on uranium geology and related geosciences too vast for one volume became available during the past decades. So the original idea had to be abandoned in favor of a four- or five-volume publication covering the five continents. Each volume contains presentations of individual uranium districts, deposits, and noteworthy occurrences organized by countries. For the sake of comprehensiveness, not all the information could be distributed without some repetition.
These volumes were not originally designed as a product for its own sake. They evolved as a by-product during decades of active uranium exploration and were compiled thanks to a request by the Springer Publishing Company. Numerous publications as well as routine research work on identifying characteristic features and recognition criteria of uranium deposits, combined with associated modelling of types of deposits for reapplication in exploration, provided the data bank. Finally it was not so much the author’s intention to present data and his own views on uranium geology and metallogenesis, but theories and models of other geoscientists who worked on any given deposit, in order to stimulate and encourage further research to achieve continuous progress in the understanding of uranium deposits and their metallogenesis. <...>