Uranium resource assessment by the Geological Survey; methodology and plan to update the national resource base

Finch, Warren Irvin; McCammon, Richard B.

doi:10.3133/cir994

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“…Digital radiometic data is available in ASCII format on 9-track tape from the EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at a cost of $80. per 1°x 2°section (Finch 1987, andHill 1986).…”

Section: What Is the Nure Data?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigations on the Structure Tectonics, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Black Mesa Basin, Northeastern Arizona

Barker¹,

Carroll²,

Erickson³

et al. 1999

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Section: What Is the Nure Data?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigations on the Structure Tectonics, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Black Mesa Basin, Northeastern Arizona

Barker¹,

Carroll²,

Erickson³

et al. 1999

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“…Occurrences of uranium minerals beneath the PrecambrianCambrian unconformity and beneath the PrecambrianTertiary unconformity in the Hartville Uplift could indicate similar concentrations of these minerals at depth in the Powder River Basin (Harris, 1986). The estimated additional resources and speculative resources of uranium (see Finch, 1987, for definition of terms) for the Wyoming Basins Resource Region have been estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (1991) (table 5). Curry (1976, p. 238) indicated that the resource of l^Og (at $30 per pound) as of January 1, 1976, in the Powder River Basin was 28 percent of the uranium resources of the Wyoming Basins Resource Region.…”

Section: Uraniummentioning

confidence: 99%

Resources in sedimentary rocks of the Powder River basin and adjacent uplifts, northeastern Wyoming

Harris¹,

DeBruin²

1992

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“…Uranium endowment is estimated as summarized below, and is more completely described in the final U.S. uranium assessment report by DOE (U.S. Department of Energy 1980), in USGS Circular 994 (Finch and McCammon 1987) and in International Atomic Energy Agency Technical Document 344 (International Atomic Energy Agency 1992). Note that contrary to more common usage of endowment as including both reserves and undiscovered resources, in the NURE assessment methodology endowment refers to undiscovered resources only, and does not include reserves, which are considered separately:…”

Section: Nure Assessment Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite ongoing work to try to find this database by USGS and EIA, it has not been located therefore cannot be recreated or analyzed. Detailed descriptions of the NURE assessment methodology are found in Finch and McCammon (1987) …”

Section: Nure Assessment Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of the NURE Assessment of the U.S. Gulf Coast Uranium Province

Hall

2013

Nat Resour Res

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Historic exploration and development were used to evaluate the reliability of domestic uranium reserves and potential resources estimated by the U.S. Department of Energy national uranium resource evaluation (NURE) program in the U.S. Gulf Coast Uranium Province. NURE estimated 87 million pounds of reserves in the $30/lb U3O8 cost category in the Coast Plain uranium resource region, most in the Gulf Coast Uranium Province. Since NURE, 40 million pounds of reserves have been mined, and 38 million pounds are estimated to remain in place as of 2012, accounting for all but 9 million pounds of U3O8 in the reserve or production categories in the NURE estimate. Considering the complexities and uncertainties of the analysis, this study indicates that the NURE reserve estimates for the province were accurate. An unconditional potential resource of 1.4 billion pounds of U3O8, 600 million pounds of U3O8 in the forward cost category of $30/lb U3O8 (1980 prices), was estimated in 106 favorable areas by the NURE program in the province. Removing potential resources from the non-productive Houston embayment, and those reserves estimated below historic and current mining depths reduces the unconditional potential resource 33% to about 930 million pounds of U3O8, and that in the $30/lb cost category 34% to 399 million pounds of U3O8. Based on production records and reserve estimates tabulated for the region, most of the production since 1980 is likely from the reserves identified by NURE. The potential resource predicted by NURE has not been developed, likely due to a variety of factors related to the low uranium prices that have prevailed since 1980.

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Uranium resource assessment by the Geological Survey; methodology and plan to update the national resource base

Cited by 20 publications

References 7 publications

Investigations on the Structure Tectonics, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Black Mesa Basin, Northeastern Arizona

Investigations on the Structure Tectonics, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Black Mesa Basin, Northeastern Arizona

Resources in sedimentary rocks of the Powder River basin and adjacent uplifts, northeastern Wyoming

Review of the NURE Assessment of the U.S. Gulf Coast Uranium Province

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