Uranium Minerals In Granite

Redistribution by circulating meteoric waters might have taken place.

Uranium minerals in granite.

This huge pool of magma cooled crystallised and formed a body of granite. This magma body was laced with some very interesting minerals including copper phosphate and uranium. Uranium also does not usually form very insoluble mineral species which is a further factor in the wide variety of geological conditions and places in which uranium mineralization may accumulate. In this study the long term mobility of natural uranium in the kaeri underground research tunnel kurt site was investigated using sequential chemical extraction and isotopic analyses of natural uranium in granite.

These radioactive elements are equal in energy to the power obtained from 5000 tons of coal. Good specimens of uranium minerals are found in the final stage of granite solidification the veins of large crystals and unusual minerals called pegmatites. Uranium is an incompatible element within magmas and as such it tends to become accumulated within highly fractionated and evolved granite melts particularly alkaline examples. Over those millions of years the top of that granite body weathered and some of that phosphate uranium and copper was released.

There may be found cubic crystals of uraninite black crusts of pitchblende and plates of uranium phosphate minerals such as torbernite cu uo2 po4 2 8 12h2o. Uranophane zippeite and becquerelite are the most abundant uranium minerals. It is surprisingly easy. The origin of these secondary minerals is mainly related to alteration of primary minerals by the action of oxidizing fluids mobilization of uranium and then redeposition in other forms.