2023year1month5day Journal of Hazardous Materials Volume 441, 5 January 2023, 129856 Review Occurrence characteristics of uranium mineral-related substances in various environmental media in China: A critical review Bei Zhao, Zhanxue Sun a, Yadan Guo,
Read MoreWastes from mining milling. In most respects, conventional mining of uranium is the same as mining any other metalliferous ore, and well-established environmental constraints
Read More2021year1month13day Despite differences in the mineral assemblages, veined ores share similar characteristics and show that uranium minerals (1)
Read MoreUranium minerals are always associated with more radioactive elements such as radium and radon in the ore which arise from the radioactive decay of uranium over a few million of years. Therefore, although uranium itself
Read More2011year10month1day The main control is related to the speciation of uranium in the ores, the presence of trace elements, the petrology of the mineral assemblage and gangue
Read Moreuranium processing, preparation of the ore for use in various products.. Uranium (U), although very dense (19.1 grams per cubic centimetre), is a relatively weak,
Read More2023year7month10day Ask MIT Climate What are the health and environmental impacts of mining and enriching uranium? Exposure to more than trace amounts of uranium can cause
Read More2016year8month3day Uranium Extraction. Uranium leaching is the process by which the uranium is extracted from the raw ore by reacting the material with acid or base. Fig. 2 shows a
Read More2023year6month13day Uranium has two main oxidation states + 4 and + 6, which occur in the natural geochemical environment. In an aqueous environment, it existed in the form of
Read More2014year8month7day Uranium ores are mined by underground, surface or solution mining depending on the geological setting of the ore. For a 1000-MWe nuclear plant (LWR), about 50 000-80 000 tonnes of uranium ore (0 2% U content) are required. Over the lifetime of a plant, about 30 years, the figure will be about 1 5 million tonnes This corresponds to the
Read More2023year8month3day The Mangbang Formation in the Hanbazhai area is part of the uranium ore field in the Longchuanjiang Basin, China. Uraniferous sandstones from this formation are examined in this study. The type and mode of occurrence of uranium are investigated in detail using an experiment for the sequential extraction of uranium, as well as an electron
Read More2019year9month24day Confirmation of raw ore was provided by XRD technique, Fig. 1 shows that, the main chemical composition of raw ore is SiO 2 (gangue and Quartz), BN, Fe 3 FeSiO 4 (OH) 5 (peridot), AlPO 4, and BeF 2.The uranium ore is not composed of a single metal oxide and a salt, but consists of a variety of metals and non-metal symbiotic or
Read More2022year3month8day The oxidation efficiency and leaching rate of ozone micro-nano bubbles (OMNBs) on UO2 and sandstone uranium ore were explored and evaluated through a batch oxidation experiment of sandstone uranium ore and a continuous flow oxidation experiment of UO2. OMNBs can accelerate the rate of oxidative leaching. Oxidation mainly relies on
Read More2 天之前 Uranium occurs naturally in low concentrations of a few parts per million in soil, rock, and water, all over the world. Over 150 uranium-bearing minerals have been identified. There are two main ways in which uranium may become concentrated enough in one area to be considered an ore. Uranium in the form of pitchblende image source
Read More2023year8month16day There are three natural isotopes of uranium — uranium-234 (U-234), uranium-235 (U-235) and uranium-238 (U-238). U-238 is the most common one, accounting for around 99 per cent of natural uranium found on earth. Most nuclear reactors use fuels containing U-235, however, natural uranium typically contains only 0.72 per cent of U
Read More2015year1month1day Uranium ore milling, its waste streams, and associated impacts1.2.3.1. Ore processing. Milling. The ore extracted from underground or open-pit mines is transported to the mill typically by wheeled vehicles. ... Mill tailings are the residual slurries from the wet processing and are the main wastes from conventional ore milling. They contain ...
Read More2021year1month13day Granite-related uranium ore is an important uranium resource type in China and worldwide. Whether the uranium geochemical theory “U6+ oxidative migration and U4+ reductive precipitation” is applicable to the granite-related uranium mineralization theory has not been determined. Detailed field and petrographic work, as well as
Read More2023year4month23day Uranium ore refers to naturally occurring rock or mineral deposits that contain a sufficient concentration of uranium, a radioactive element, to make its extraction economically viable. Uranium is a relatively rare element and is typically found in trace amounts in the Earth's crust. Uranium ore is typically mined and processed to extract
Read More2017year5month6day The Baiyanghe uranium deposit is a currently important medium-sized deposit in the Xuemisitan area, Xinjiang. The hydrothermal alteration in this deposit is closely related to the uranium mineralization of the deposit. In this study, hyperspectral data are collected from drill cores in the Baiyanghe uranium deposit using a FieldSpec4 visible
Read More2022year11month7day Nuclear energy produces radioactive waste. A major environmental concern related to nuclear power is the creation of radioactive wastes such as uranium mill tailings, spent (used) reactor fuel, and other radioactive wastes. These materials can remain radioactive and dangerous to human health for thousands of years.
Read More2023year3month22day Since the 1990s, sandstone-type uranium in the northern basin of China has become the main target for mining. Uranium mining can cause a series of impacts on the environment. A conceptual model of the
Read More2021year5month18day The relationship of sedimentary organic matter, oil-gas and sandstone-type uranium (U) deposits is the key problem of U-mineralization. Whether migrate hydrocarbons participate in U-mineralization is still a controversy. Typical U deposits of the Erlian Basin in northeast China have been investigated through detailed petrography, mineralogical,
Read More2020year1month5day 铀是强不相容元素,随着岩浆演化而不断富集,在岩浆演化末期受结构氧增加影响进入独居石、磷钇矿等副矿物中。岩浆演化通常无法直接形成达到工业品位的铀矿床。铀是对氧逸度敏感的变价元素。在表生风化过程中岩体(层)中的铀被氧化为UO22+而极易溶解进入水体中,并可在 ...
Read More2023year4month24day The uranium ore layer lies on top of a layer of medium coarse and fine sandstone mixed with thin layers of coal and/or mudstone. The bottom of the uranium ore layer is about 80–163 m for an average of 90 m from the top of the no. 3 coal seam of the lower Yan’an Formation, as shown in Fig. S1. The no. 3 coal seam is the main mineable
Read More2019year2month19day The main uranium ore production yielded the Rovnost-Eliáš-Eduard (3178.9 t U) and Eva-Barbora (1725.6 t U) ore clusters . The Potůčky deposit is a small uranium deposit situated NE of the Jáchymov ore district and on the SE edge of the Johanngeorgenstadt uranium district in Germany . This uranium deposit developed in
Read More2016year1month1day Granite-related deposits. Deposits related to granite include: (1) true veins composed of ore and gangue minerals in granite or adjacent (meta-) sedimentary rocks and (2) disseminated mineralization in granite as episyenite bodies. Uranium mineralization occurs within, at the contact or peripheral to the intrusion.
Read More2022year5month7day Mineralogical study showed that the Yuejin uranium ore is from a low grade, high carbonate and high pyrite sandstone type uranium deposit. Uranium leaching rate, uranium speciation of leachate, leaching kinetics and precipitation analysis were investigated under the conditions of different acidity, liquid–solid ratio and H2O2 concentration. The
Read More2021year1month24day The Zhuguangshan complex hosts the main uranium production area in South China. We report (U-Th)/He and fission track thermochronological data from Triassic–Jurassic mineralized and non-mineralized granites and overlying Cambrian and Cretaceous sandstone units from the Lujing uranium ore field (LUOF) to constrain the
Read More2023year1month5day In-situ leaching dissolves uranium ore by injecting leaching agent into the ore bed (Campbell et al., 2015, McComb and Gesser, 1997, Shen et al., 2020, Wang et al., 2012). The leaching agent usually includes oxidant and coordination carrier solvent. ... The main extractants for alkaline leaching are H 2 O 2 /O 2, Na 2 CO 3, NaHCO 3, and NH 4 ...
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