1987
DOI: 10.3406/bulmi.1987.7977
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A stationary redox front as a critical factor in the formation of high-grade, unconformity-type uranium ores in the Athabasca basin, Saskatchewan, Canada

Abstract: Les études de la distribution des minéraux argileux et des structures diagénétiques dans les couches rouges du groupe Athabasca et dans les halos d'altération associés aux gisements d'uranium de type discordance ont permis d'établir les relations étroites entre la diagenèse des couches rouges, l'altération des roches encaissantes, la minéralisation et l'évolution du bassin. La minéralisation primaire s'est mise en place pendant une phase tardive de l'évolution du bassin, sous des conditions d'enfouisseme… Show more

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“…Hoeve and Sibbald 1978;Clark and Burrill 1981;Hoeve and Quirt 1987). Rabbit Lake, Key Lake, Cigar Lake, McClean) are hydrothermal deposits occurring in Early Proterozoic metasediments.…”
Section: Conditions Of Depositionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hoeve and Sibbald 1978;Clark and Burrill 1981;Hoeve and Quirt 1987). Rabbit Lake, Key Lake, Cigar Lake, McClean) are hydrothermal deposits occurring in Early Proterozoic metasediments.…”
Section: Conditions Of Depositionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Sm-Nd ages fro the primary uranium mineralization in three deposits of the Alligator Rivers Uranium Field varies between 1600-1650 m.y., indicating that minerlaization took place soon after the deposition of uncomformably overlying rocks of the 1650-m.y.-old Kombolgie Formation (Maas 1989), Many authors have interpreted these deposits to result from a long and complicated geological history, involving repeated upgrading of initial proto-ore concentrations by metamorphic, erosional and diagenetic processes (Dahlkamp 1978). , Hoeve and Quirt (1987) and Wilde et al (1989a) have proposed a diagenetic-hydrothermal model. The post-unconformity age of mineralization, wall-rock alterations and the presence of saline fluids depositing ores at temperatures < 250 ~ supports their model.…”
Section: Characteristic Features Of Pge-and Au-bearing Unconformity-rmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…5). The reduction of U(vi) to U(iv) and subsequent UO 2 precipitation was spatially associated with the intersection of graphite-and sulphide-rich basement-rooted faults and the basement-cover unconformity, which may have acted as redox interfaces 21 . Although these giant deposits imply that such brines are capable of transporting huge quantities of U, no experimental data are available for U(vi) solubility in these conditions 22,23 .…”
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