Deposit types, metallogenic belts and prospecting potential for uranium deposits in South America

ZHU Yiping; YAO Zhongyou; ZHAO Yuhao; ZHAO Xiaodan; LIU Jun'an

2017 Vol. 36, No. 12

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ZHU Yiping, YAO Zhongyou, ZHAO Yuhao, ZHAO Xiaodan, LIU Jun'an. Deposit types, metallogenic belts and prospecting potential for uranium deposits in South America[J]. Geological Bulletin of China, 2017, 36(12): 2185-2196.

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ZHU Yiping, YAO Zhongyou, ZHAO Yuhao, ZHAO Xiaodan, LIU Jun'an. Deposit types, metallogenic belts and prospecting potential for uranium deposits in South America[J]. Geological Bulletin of China, 2017, 36(12): 2185-2196.

Deposit types, metallogenic belts and prospecting potential for uranium deposits in South America

Nanjing Center, China Geological Survey, Nanjing 210016, Jiangsu, China

Received Date: 20 March 2017

Revised Date: 19 September 2017

Publish Date: 25 December 2017

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Abstract

South America possesses abundant uranium resources. The authors recognized six deposit types, i.e., sandstone, paleoquartz-pebble conglomerate, calcrete, volcanic, granite-related and metasomatite types, and selected 11 uranium deposits of the 6 types to analyze and summarize their geological features. Based on the study, the authors preliminarily delineated four uranium metallogenic belts in the continent, i.e., mid-Andean, Northern Argentina, Chubut, and Eastern South America metallogenic belts, and preferentially proposed several potential areas of uranium resources in the hope of providing some information for the 'going out' of uranium ore geologists.
- uranium deposit /
- deposit type /
- metallogenic belt /
- prospecting potential /
- South America

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