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| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Unconformity-Related McArthur River
Zone 4 Orebody in the Athabasca Basin, Canada: Implications of a Silicified...University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Abstract
The McArthur River unconformity-related uranium deposit...margin of the
Proterozoic Athabasca basin in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, contains both basement-hosted...with the intrusion of the Mackenzie dikes into
the basin, followed by alteration of uraninite to coffinite...into the overlying strata.
Introduction
The McArthur River unconformity-related uranium deposit
is situated | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | basement-hosted
unconformity-related U ores of the Athabasca Basin
(Canada): late U remobilisation by meteoric fluids...unconformityrelated uranium deposits of the Athabasca Basin (Saskatchewan, Canada) were affected by significant uranium...Ma period during uplift and erosion of the Athabasca
Basin when it was near the Equator and to have been...fronts.
Keywords Redox . Front . Uranium . Athabasca . Canada .
Remobilisation . Meteoric . Kaolinite
...U deposits associated with the Athabasca Basin (Saskatchewan, Canada) are classified as unconformity-related | 👁 Image
| Alexandre, Paul, Kyser, Kurt, Thomas, Dave, Polito, Paul, Marlat, Jim (2009) Geochronology of unconformity-related uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada and their integration in the evolution of the basin. Mineralium Deposita, 44 (1) 41-59 doi:10.1007/s00126-007-0153-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
and their integration in the evolution of the basin
Paul Alexandre...sediment-hosted unconformity-related
deposits in the Athabasca Basin, Canada. Post-peak
metamorphic cooling during the...Engineering,
Queen’s University,
Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
e-mail: alexandre@geol.queensu.ca
K. Kyser...Corporation,
2121, 11th Street West,
Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7M 1J3
D. Thomas
e-mail: dave_thomas@cameco.com...maximum age for the formation of the overlying
Athabasca Basin. Pre-ore alteration occurred simultaneously | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | BULGARIA
BURKINA FASO
BURUNDI
CAMBODIA
CAMEROON
CANADA
CENTRAL AFRICAN
REPUBLIC
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CHILE
CHINA
COLOMBIA...particular the
contributions of the late K. Kyser (Canada).
The IAEA officer responsible for this publication...members ......................... 28
2.2.3. The Athabasca Basin Type area for classification................................................. 33
2.2.5. McArthur River deposit ................................................................ 63
2.3.2. Canada (Athabasca Basin) ..................................... | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Sciences,University of Saskatchewan,Saskatoon,SaskatchewanS7N 0W0, Canada
Ansrru,cr
Chemical and U...complex vein type U deposits in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Ca and Si contents in samplesof pristine...Presentaddress:AECL Research,Chalk River Laboratories,
Chalk River, Ontario KOJ 1J0, Canada.
0003-004x/93/ | | |...onand extentof Athabasca
type in the Proterozoic Athabasca Basin and from vein- Basin,variouslithostructuraldomains...parentheses
referto drill holeand samplenumbers
Athabasca Basin comparable to that already established in TablesI | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE MCARTHUR RIVER AND SUE ZONE URANIUM DEPOSITS, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA MOSTAFA FAYEK§ Department...Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada LEE R. RICIPUTI Oak Ridge National Laboratory...unconformity-type uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, demonstrates that at the microscale...geochronology, fluid-circulation events, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. § E-mail addresses: mfayek@utk.edu...discordants d’uranium du bassin d’Athabasca, au Saskatchewan, démontre qu’à un échelle microscopique, ces | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ALONG THE P2 FAULT
AND MCARTHUR RIVER URANIUM DEPOSIT, ATHABASCA BASIN, CANADA
ERIN E. ADLAKHA AND KEIKO...University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N6N5, Canada
ABSTRACT
The P2 fault, a 13 km-long steeply dipping...the McArthur River uranium
deposit in the eastern Athabasca Basin, northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Three...peak metamorphism but before deposition of the Athabasca sandstones, whereas magnesio-foitite
is a product...in proximity to the Zone 2 ore body of the
McArthur River deposit. In the ore zone, the assemblage occurs | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Unconformity-Type Uranium Deposits in the Athabasca Basin, Canada
P. ALEXANDRE,†,* K. KYSER, P. POLITO,
Department...Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
AND D. THOMAS
Cameco Corporation, 2121...2121, 11th Street West, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7M 1J3
Abstract
Unconformity-type uranium deposits...Rabbit
Lake, Dawn Lake, and McArthur River, in the Athabasca basin of Canada, which are hosted by the metamorphic...uranium from the overlying sandstones of the Athabasca Formation and transported it into the basement | 👁 Image
| Sheahan, C., Fayek, M., Quirt, D., Jefferson, C. W. (2016) A Combined Ingress-Egress Model for the Kianna Unconformity-Related Uranium Deposit, Shea Creek Project, Athabasca Basin, Canada. Economic Geology, 111 (1) 225-257 doi:10.2113/econgeo.111.1.225 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | |
Uranium Deposit, Shea Creek Project, Athabasca Basin, Canada
C. Sheahan,1,† M. Fayek,1 D. Quirt,2 and...R3T 2N2, Canada
2AREVA Resources Canada Inc., 810 45th St. W, Saskatoon, SK S7K 3X5, Canada
3Geological...3Geological Survey of Canada Earth Sciences Sector, Natural Resources Canada, Rm 659-601 Booth, Ottawa, ON K1A...K1A 0E8, Canada
Abstract
The Kianna deposit is an unconformity-related uranium deposit in the western...western Athabasca Basin, hosting mineralization in three zones: (1) perched in sandstone above the unconformity | 👁 Image
| Sharpe, Ryan, Fayek, Mostafa, Quirt, David, Jefferson, Charlie W. (2015) Geochronology and Genesis of the Bong Uranium Deposit, Thelon Basin, Nunavut, Canada. Economic Geology, 110 (7) 1759-1777 doi:10.2113/econgeo.110.7.1759 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Genesis of the Bong Uranium Deposit, Thelon Basin,
Nunavut, Canada
Ryan Sharpe,1,† Mostafa Fayek,1 David Quirt...Dysart Road, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
2 AREVA Resources Canada Inc., P.O. Box 9204, 817 - 45th...Street W., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7K 3X5
3 Geological Survey of Canada, Room 659 - 601 Booth...Booth, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E8
Abstract
The Thelon basin, Nunavut, shares many similarities with...uranium-producing Athabasca basin, Saskatchewan; however, the uranium deposits associated with the Thelon basin are | 👁 Image
| Mercadier, J., Annesley, I. R., McKechnie, C. L., Bogdan, T. S., Creighton, S. (2013) Magmatic and Metamorphic Uraninite Mineralization in the Western Margin of the Trans-Hudson Orogen (Saskatchewan, Canada): A Uranium Source for Unconformity-Related Uranium Deposits?. Economic Geology, 108 (5) 1037-1065 doi:10.2113/econgeo.108.5.1037 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Western Margin
of the Trans-Hudson Orogen (Saskatchewan, Canada):
A Uranium Source for Unconformity-Related...Saskatoon, SK S7K 0G6, Canada
3 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place...5E2, Canada
4 Saskatchewan Research Council, 125 Innovation Boulevard, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, SK S7N...S7N 2X8, Canada
Abstract
The genetic model for the giant unconformity-related uranium deposits of the...the Athabasca Basin is still being
debated, with one of the main issues being the source of the uranium | 👁 Image
| Alexandre, Paul, Kyser, Kurt, Layton-Matthews, Daniel, Joy, Brian, Uvarova, Yulia (2015) Chemical Compositions of Natural Uraninite. The Canadian Mineralogist, 53 (4) 595-622 doi:10.3749/canmin.1500017 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
YULIA UVAROVA
SCIRO CESRE, 26 Dick Perry Avenue...11
Unconformity-type
As defined in the Athabasca Basin, Canada,
unconformity-type U deposits are found...(NWT, Canada); 2: Eldorado mines, Great Slave Lake (NWT, Canada);
3: Nun Lake, Lake Athabasca, Port Radium...Radium, Hab Mine, Ace Mine (Saskatchewan, Canada); 4: Eagle Point, McArthur River,
Dawn Lake, Millennium...Bay (Saskatchewan, Canada); 5: Kiggavik (Nunavut, Canada); 6: Echo Bay,
Camray Mine, Ranwick Mine (Ontario | 👁 Image
| Chi, Guoxiang, Haid, Taylor, Quirt, David, Fayek, Mostafa, Blamey, Nigel, Chu, Haixia (2017) Petrography, fluid inclusion analysis, and geochronology of the End uranium deposit, Kiggavik, Nunavut, Canada. Mineralium Deposita, 52 (2) 211-232 doi:10.1007/s00126-016-0657-9 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the End uranium deposit, Kiggavik, Nunavut, Canada
Guoxiang Chi 1 & Taylor Haid 1 & David Quirt 2...the Proterozoic Thelon Basin, which
is geologically similar to the Athabasca Basin known for its
unconformity-related...mineralization
with basinal brines derived from the Thelon Basin. However,
unlike the conventional deep-burial (>5... Thelon Basin
1
Department of Geology, University of Regina,
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2
Areva...Areva Resources Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
3
Department of Geological Sciences, University | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | |
Uranium Deposit in the South-Central Athabasca Basin, Canada
P. ALEXANDRE,1,† K. KYSER,1 D. JIRICKA...ON K7L 3N6, Canada
2 Cameco Corporation, 2121–11th St West, Saskatoon, SK S7M 1J3, Canada
Abstract
The...deposit is situated in the south-central Athabasca Basin (Canada) and straddles the
unconformity between...the clastic sediments of the Paleoproterozoic Athabasca Group. Although it has most characteristics
of...sandstone-hosted unconformity-type U deposits in the Athabasca Basin. Pre-U illite-related fluids have δ18O of ca | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Queen’s University,
Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
kyser@geol.queensu.ca
and
Michel Cuney
G2R, Nancy-Université...engineered.
Once an ore deposit is discovered, a mine is
developed and U extracted by a variety of mining...Major deposits occur in the Athabasca
Basin in Canada and the Alligator River region of
Australia and these... the Paterson Basin in Western Australia
(McKay & Miezitis 2001) and the Thelon Basin in
6
300000...extensional basins
Rift/back arc
basins
Arc/Marginal
Basin
Alkaline
complexes
Rift/back arc
basins
Intracratonic | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1V 9T3, deceased
2
Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa...Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0E8,
eric.potter@canada.ca * Corresponding author
3
Department of Geological...Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2,
Mostafa.Fayek@umanitoba.ca
Abstract...unconformity-related U deposits in the coeval Athabasca and Thelon basins.
The 1453 Ma isotopic resetting...and Charles Camsell of the Geological Survey
of Canada (Bell, 1902), the Eldorado U-, Ag- and Co-bearing | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | unconformity with the Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic McArthur Basin.
AC
The sites of uranium mineralisation and...schists of the Upper Mine
Sequence in the Cahill Formation. (2) Silicification of Lower Mine Sequence carbonate...‘paleoregolith’ zone in basement beneath the McArthur Basin exhibits
depletion of about half of its uranium...observations suggest this zone is a regional subMcArthur Basin alteration zone produced by interaction with diagenetic...paleo-weathering zone before the
deposition of the McArthur Basin, as previously suggested.
Based on these results | 👁 Image
| Cloutier, J., Kyser, K., Olivo, G. R., Alexandre, P., Halaburda, J. (2009) The Millennium Uranium Deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada: An Atypical Basement-Hosted Unconformity-Related Uranium Deposit. Economic Geology, 104 (6) 815-840 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.104.6.815 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Millennium Uranium Deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada:
An Atypical Basement-Hosted Unconformity-Related...Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
2 Cameco Corporation, 2121, 11th Street West, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7M...in the other basementhosted deposits of the Athabasca basin.
The preore stage consists of early minor clinochlore...basement rocks prior to the deposition of the Athabasca basin.
This clinochlore event is followed by an extensive...some other basement-hosted deposits in the
Athabasca basin where basement-derived fluid influx was more | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Precambrian crystalline
basement of the Athabasca Basin (Saskatchewan, Canada):
implications for the formation...Microanalytical studies of basement rocks below the
Athabasca sandstone basin indicate that monazite is the dominant...minerals (e.g. zircon) has yet
been observed in the Athabasca sandstones. It is suggested that
hydrothermal...pegmatoids and potassic orthogneisses) of the sub-Athabasca basement, represents the most important uranium... uranium mineralization in the Athabasca
basin (Saskatchewan, Canada) constitutes the world's largest | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | uranium mineralization in the Camie River deposit (Otish
Basin, Québec, Canada)
M. Lesbros-Piat-Desvial, G....uranium
mineralization in the Camie River deposit (Otish Basin, Québec, Canada), Ore Geology Reviews (2017)...uranium mineralization in the Camie River
deposit (Otish Basin, Québec, Canada)
M. Lesbros-Piat-Desvial, G....avenue de la Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC,
Canada G1V 0A6
marion.lesbros-piat-desvial.1@ulaval.ca...avenue de la Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC,
Canada G1V 0A6
georges.beaudoin@ggl.ulaval.ca
Julien Mercadier | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | setting of Jabiluka, Australia and Cigar Lake, Canada ......... 16
2.1.3. Ore geometry and metallogenesis...Uranium resources and production in Witwatersrand basin................. 39
Vein type (granite related U...basement hosted (McArthur River, Rabbit Lake,
Eagle Point, McClean Lake, Dominique-Peter in Canada; Jabiluka...and D zones, Midwest, McClean, Cluff Lake D in Canada).
2. Sandstone deposits: Sandstone uranium deposits...Sossego in South America; Michelin and Sue-Dianne in Canada.
4. Quartzpebble conglomerate deposits: Detrital | 👁 Image
| | Book | | reasons for the approach taken Mineral deposit or mine? A genetic model as the basis for exploration The...Northern Territory, Australia and Northern Saskatchewan, Canada Sandstone-hosted uranium deposits of the...iron-formation Enriched haematite ore deposits The Hamersley Basin - an example of banded iron-formation and associated...many geologists who have given their time during mine visits and responded to our queries. We have benefited...Decline Doline A downward inclined tunnel into a mine or potential ore body. A funnel-shaped depression | 👁 Image
| Reid, K. D., Ansdell, K., Jiricka, D., Witt, G., Card, C. (2014) Regional Setting, Geology, and Paragenesis of the Centennial Unconformity-Related Uranium Deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada. Economic Geology, 109 (3) 539-566 doi:10.2113/econgeo.109.3.539 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Unconformity-Related
Uranium Deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
Kyle D. Reid,1,† Kevin Ansdell,1...Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5E2,
2 Cameco Corporation...2121-11th Street West, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7M 1J3
3 Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Ministry of the Economy...Economy, Government of Saskatchewan, 200-2101 Scarth Street,
Regina, SK, Canada S4P 2H9
Abstract
The...tectonic zone in the south-central part of the Athabasca Basin. The deposit is associated
with a steeply WNW-dipping | 👁 Image
| Clauer, Norbert, Mercadier, Julien, Patrier, Patricia, Laverret, Emmanuel, Bruneton, Patrice (2015) Relating unconformity-type uranium mineralization of the Alligator Rivers Uranium Field (Northern Territory, Australia) to the regional Proterozoic tectono-thermal activity: An illite K–Ar dating approach. Precambrian Research, 269. 107-121 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.08.007 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposits
Kombolgie sediments
Basement rocks
McArthur Basin
Australian Northern Territory
a b s t r a...from ∼1650 to
1300 Ma, that monitored large-scale basin-derived brine flows initiated by contemporary tectonic...Proterozoic unconformity-related U deposits of the
Athabasca (Canada) and MacArthur (Australia) basins are typical...deposits
formed at the interface between a sedimentary basin and its crystalline basement, as a result of extensive...clay component of these U deposits,
in both the Athabasca and MacArthur basins (e.g. Gustafson and
Curtis | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | URANIFEROUS BITUMEN IN THE
SOUTHWEST ATHABASCA BASIN, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA
P. ALEXANDRE† AND T. K. KYSER
Department...Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Abstract
The sediment-hosted unconformity-type Southwest Athabasca uranium mineralization...northern
Saskatchewan, Canada, contains uraniferous bitumen, as observed elsewhere in the Athabasca basin...in the Athabasca basin,
indicating that the bitumen was formed early in the history of the basin. Nitrogen...uranium deposits in the Paleoproterozoic Athabasca basin, Saskatchewan (Sibbald and
Quirt, 1987; Kribek et |
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