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⇱ Gummite from McArthur River Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada


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Gummite from
McArthur River Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Gummite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gummite data
Locality Data:Click here to view McArthur River Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1207629
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1207629:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
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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...coffinite, poorly crystalline uraninite, and gummite during the Neoproterozoic. Cool (ca. 10°C), oxidizing,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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........................................... 19 Canada .................................................uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...600 384,600 530,500 United States 102,000 345,000 Canada 297,300 333,800 333,800 South Africa 119,200 231...America represented about 35% of world production. Canada was the world's largest producer, at around 11
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journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/oregeorev Basin-related uranium mineral systems in Australia: A...r a c t This paper reviews critical features of basin-related uranium mineral systems in Australia. These...and geochemical datasets. The review of fertile basin-related systems shows that these systems require...Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Basin-related uranium mineral systems, which include uranium...uranium deposits formed during various stages of basin evolution (sedimentation, diagenesis and post-sedimentation
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unconformity- and vein-type U deposits (Australia and Canada) and the unique Oklo natural nuclear reactors in...Emsley (1991); Chen and Wasserburg (1986) Average river water ~10–4 ~2.5 × 10–4 Bertine et al. (1970); Moore...unconformity- and vein-type U deposits (Australia and Canada) and the unique Oklo natural nuclear reactors in...crystal (1 cm in length) with feldspar from the Swamp Mine, Maine. Uraninite crystals precipitated from magmaticrelated...Group, and in the Paleoproterozoic Canadian Blind River deposits (2.4 to 2.2 Ga). Ore deposits of detrital
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Report (issue)
common in the ancient continental shield areas of Canada, Australia and Africa; in the USA, they are found...Other beryllium deposits are in Sea Lake, Labrador, Canada, as barylite; and in Coahuila, Mexico as bertrandite...near Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories of Canada, five deposits have been identified as a large...Altai Mountains, China; Chita region, Russia; Bikita mine in Zimbabwe (Bikita pegmatite); Karibib, Namibia...lithium, for examples oilfield brines in the Paradox basin, Utah, and in the Smackover Formation in Arkansas
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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
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the Carswell structure on the Athabasca Plateau (Northern Saskatchewan) - Comparison with other deposits... M. Moreau, F. Tona The Pandanus Creek uranium mine, Northern Territory, Australia ......... 77 B...Geology and genesis of uranium deposits at the Pitch Mine, Saguache County, Colorado .......................th- Carswell structure on the Athabasca Plateau (Northern Saskatchewan) - Comparison with other deposits...ONickcl A longitudinal section of the Jaduguda Mine. in biotitc schists, chlorite-biotite schists
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Report (issue)
BULGARIA BURKINA FASO BURUNDI CAMBODIA CAMEROON CANADA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHAD CHILE CHINA COLOMBIA...Description of a selected deposit: The Denison mine deposit (Canada) ....... 304 Surficial deposits ..........Charlebois Lake, Canada); (b) Disseminations in migmatitic rocks (Nipissing Lake, Canada); (c) Veins in...(Australia); Port Radium, Ace–Fay–Verna, Gunnar (Canada); Shinkolobwe (former Zaire); Jachymov (former...quartz-pebble conglomerates) (Blind River district (Canada); Witwatersrand Basin (South Africa)); (iii) Deposits
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranium mineralization. Svornost mine, Jáchymov; photo P. Škácha. c – “Gummite” – residual uraninite (blackish)...replaced by orange masuyite. Dump of the Rovnost mine, Jáchymov. The width of the sample is 4 cm. Photo...presence of uranyl oxide minerals (usually forming gummite) and corresponds to the early stages described...during the post-mining processes, known as the Acid-Mine Drainage (AMD) (e.g., Brugger et al. 2003) (Fig...soddyite (short prismatic orange) from the Shinkolobwe mine, Congo. FOV 2.3 mm. b – Long-prismatic crystals
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
represent the opening of a Neoproterozoic oceanic basin, as constrained by the age of the Luakela volcanics...Kundelungu Group has been interpreted as a foreland basin deposit (Master et al., 2005; Fig. 2). The nappe...evolution of the nappe pile in the Domes region. Rift-basin opening (from 880 to 750 Ma; Porada and Berhorst...[Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·8-12H2O], sabugalite [HAl(UO2)4(PO4)4·16H2O] and gummite [UO3·nH2O] (Meneghel, 1981). 3. Petrography and...sequence of the Nguba Group (Fig. 2) in the Kansanshi mine (Torrealday et al., 2000) is evidence for the occurrence
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............................................ . Canada ........ ....... ...... .. ................. ....Australja 0 961,500 l, 158,000 1.180, l 00 Canada 237,900 292,500 319.700 -121,900 Kazakhstan...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...An1erica represented about 21% of the worldwide total. Canada was the world's second-largest producer, at around...The MacArthur River 1nine, Saskatchewan, is the world's largest high-grade uraniu1n mine. The ore from
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Robertson J.A. (Blind River-Elliot Lake, Canada), Ruhrmann G. (Saskatchewan, Canada), Ruzicka V. (CSFR)... USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid M....Uranium Deposits (Type 1, Chap. 4): Athabasca Basin Region, Canada......................................Deposits in Not-Albitized Metasediments: Alligator River Uranium Field, Australia . . . . . . . . . . . ...in Albitized Metasediments: Uranium City Region, Canada........................................ 137 5
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604254549 Geological Survey of Canada Geology of Canada, no. 8 GEOLOGY OF CANADIAN MINERAL DEPOSIT...Natural Resources Canada 1995 Available in Canada from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth...Booth Street Ottawa, Canada K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7 100 West Pender Street...B.C. V6B 1R8 or from Canada Communication Group — Publishing Ottawa, Canada K1A 0S9 A deposit copy...available for reference in public libraries across Canada Cat. No. M40-49/8E ISBN 0-660-13136-6 Price subject
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Laboratory/Saskatchewan Geochronology University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Laboratory...Netherlands Distributors for the United States and Canada: ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHING COMPANY INC. 52,...and attracted over 400 delegates to Saskatoon, Canada. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Mineral...Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada. The organizational efforts of V.J. Sopuck (General...symposium participants. The field trips to Northern Saskatchewan, Flin Flon, Thompson, Yellowknife, Pine Point
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uranium treatment plant Managing the Ranger Uranium Mine in the Alligator Rivers Region—there is much more...White’s overburden heap Mine planning and scheduling at Ranger Uranium Mine—environmental requirements...80’s AND BEYOND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS The McArthur River Project Financing the smaller mining project:...design and operating aspects of the Ranger Uranium Mine treatment plant Laboratory study of the subaerial...Some recent changes and innovations at Mount Isa Mine Commissioning and operation of the 800 TPH heavy
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
In the Mistamisk Valley of the Labrador Trough (Canada), the occurrence of uraninite– albite veins within...similar to this western part of the 123 Rift basin opening (from 880 to 600 Ma) was followed by convergence...Anticline) to west (Kabompo dome). In the Nkana, mine uranium-bearing rocks are characterized by an upper...8–12H2O], sabugalite [HAl(UO2)4 (PO4)4.16H2O] and gummite [UO3.nH2O] (Meneghel 1981). Measurements were...unconformity-related U deposits in the Athabasca basin, Canada (Richard et al. 2010, 2012, 2013) and which
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Report (volume)
Environmental issues such as coping with uranium mine and mill tailings and other uranium-contaminated...291 URANIUM DEPOSITS OF SEDIMENT AND SEDIMENTARY BASIN ASSOCIATION, .....................................323 The origin of U deposits in the Franceville basin ........................................... 324............................ 440 Mill tailings in Canada: A case study ...................................located mainly at Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina. The total activity of this waste
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8 The East Kemptville Sn Greisen, Nova Scotia, Canada . 4.3.9 The Brandberg West Greisen Vein Systems...Scheelite Dome, an Intrusion-Related Au Deposit, Yukon, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...5.3.7 Epithermal Systems in the Northern Great Basin, USA. 5.3.8 The Oldest Epithermal Systems, Archaean... Au, Cu-Mo Skarns in the Yangzte (Chiangjiang) River Valley, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . 7.3 Birth, Life and Death of an Ocean Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 Oceanic
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SCHNELL, AREVA NC (retired), British Columbia, Canada JEFFREY J. WONG, California Environmental Protection... the committee traveled to northeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, for site visits to two uranium mines and...production came from only eight countries (Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Namibia, Niger, Russia, Uzbekistan...enforceable standard by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration or the Occupational...directly related to the population density near the mine or processing facility. s )NTERNAL EXPOSURE TO RADIOACTIVE
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada, generally well known to readers. However, the...Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin. (peninsula)...drill cores from oil shales of tl~e Acanthite Green River Fonnation in Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO
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Report (issue)
66 Mineral reconnaissance surveys in the Craven Basin 67 Baryte and copper min8falisation in the Renfrewshire...the Loch Doon pluton (Figure 1 ). The catchment basin of the Penkiln Burn is formed by a series of southward-facing...cirque-defined catchment basin the Penkiln Burn flows generally southward to join the River Cree at Newton Stewart...originated in a late Precambrian to Cambrian ensialic basin within this foreland (Harris and others, 1978);...fe�tures observed is a lower fan encroaching on a basin pliiin (Walker, 1979). The tuff and abundant chert
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