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Uranium geochemistry, mineralogy, geology, exploration and resources

Published for the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy

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  • © 1984

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  1. Benedetto Vivo
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  2. Felice Ippolito
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  3. G. Capaldi
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  4. P. R. Simpson
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. History of radioactivity

    • Paolo Gasparini
    Pages 1-3

  3. Uranium in mantle processes

    • Massimo Cortini
    Pages 4-11

  4. Transport and deposition of uranium in hydrothermal systems at temperatures up to 300°C: geological implications

    • Samuel B. Romberger
    Pages 12-17

  5. Geochemical behaviour of uranium in the supergene environment

    • Gaetano Dongarra
    Pages 18-22

  6. Uranium exploration techniques

    • Chester E. Nichols
    Pages 23-42

  7. Uranium mineralogy

    • Deane K. Smith Jr.
    Pages 43-88

  8. Time, crustal evolution and generation of uranium deposits

    • R. W. Hutchinson, J. D. Blackwell
    Pages 89-100

  9. Uranium exploration

    • Richard H. De Voto
    Pages 101-108

  10. Geochemistry of uranium in the hydrographic network

    • Bernard Soyer
    Pages 109-116

  11. Uranium deposits of the world, excluding Europe

    • Robert G. Young
    Pages 117-139

  12. Uranium deposits in Europe

    • Valery Ziegler, Jacques Dardel
    Pages 140-161

  13. Uranium in the economics of energy

    • B. De Vivo, F. Ippolito
    Pages 162-166

  14. Role of high heat production granites in uranium province formation

    • P. R. Simpson, Jane A. Plant
    Pages 167-178

  15. Uranium deposits in Italy

    • Claudio Tedesco
    Pages 179-188

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 189-201
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turning points that, in the course of a few years, have made this The uranium minerals that today are at the centre of worldwide metal an essential raw material. attention were unknown until 1780, when Wagsfort found a First, the destructive property of fission reactions made uranium a metal of fundamental strategic importance, increas­ pitchblende sample in 10hanngeorgenstadt. This discovery passed unnoticed, however, since Wags fort thought that it ing research in some nations, but the revolution came with the plan for the real possibility of utilizing chain reactions for contained a black species of a zinc mineral-hence the n':lme 'pitchblende' (= pitch-like blende). Seven years later, Klaproth, energy production in place of conventional fuels. while examining the mineral, noted that it contained an oxide Since that time a 'uranium race' has been in progress in many countries-often justified by the well-founded hope of of an unknown metal, which he called 'uranium' in honour of the planet Uranus, recently discovered by Herschel. Klaproth becoming self-sufficient with regard to energy, or at least of also believed that he had separated the metal, but, in fact, the paying off a part of the financial deficit due to increasing fuel imports.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Uranium geochemistry, mineralogy, geology, exploration and resources

  • Book Subtitle: Published for the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy

  • Editors: Benedetto Vivo, Felice Ippolito, G. Capaldi, P. R. Simpson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6060-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6062-6Published: 01 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6060-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 202

  • Topics: Economic Geology, Mineral Resources

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