“…These exogenic deposits, occurring in the sedimentary strata and with a lenticular, tabular, and roll morphology (Hall, Mihalasky, Tureck, Hammarstrom, & Hannon, 2017; Hou, Keeling, & Li, 2017; Wulser, Brugger, Foden, & Pfeifer, 2011), formed by the infiltration of uraniumābearing oxygenated groundwater and the process of reduction to concentrate uranium by various internal and external reducing media. These deposits are widely distributed in MesozoicāCenozoic basins throughout the world (F. F. Wang et al, 2017), such as the Wyoming and Colorado basins in United States (Bullock & Parnell, 2017; Hall et al, 2017; Wright, 1955), Ural in Russia (Golubev et al, 2013), Zoovch Ovoo in Mongolia (Rallakis, Michels, Brouand, Parize, & Cathelineau, 2019), the ChuāSalesu Basin in Central Asia (Lach, Cathelineau, Brouand, & Fiet, 2015), the Callabonna SubāBasin in South Australia (Ingham, Cook, Cliff, Ciobanu, & Huddleston, 2014; Jaireth, Roach, Bastrakov, & Liu, 2016), and the Ili Basin in Western China (Dai et al, 2015). By 2019, 1,340 such deposits had been discovered, accounting for 39.6% of all uraniumādeposit types (International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], 2020).…”