Uranium Distribution in Mineral Phases of Rock by Sequential Extraction Procedure
Uranium Distribution in Mineral Phases of Rock by Sequential Extraction Procedure
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通过顺序提取程序测定岩石矿物相中的铀分布
DOI:
10.1524/ract.1991.5253.2.387
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发表时间:
1991
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P. Duerden
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作者:
N. Yanase;T. Nightingale;T. Payne;P. Duerden
A sequential extraction procedure was used to study the distribution of uranium in mineral phases of rock at the Koongarra uranium deposit (Northern Territory of Australia). This work forms a part of the natural analogue study carried out in the International Alligator Rivers Analogue Project, which is being sponsored by the OECD/NEA. The following mineral phases: adsorbed trace material and carbonate minerals, amorphous iron minerals and secondary uranium minerals, crystalline iron minerals, clay minerals, and remaining resistant mineral phases, were extracted successively by treatment with: 1 Μ sodium acetate (pH = 5) (Morgan's solution), Tamm's acid oxalate (TAO) (pH = 3), citrate-dithionitebicarbonate (CDB), 6 Μ hydrochloric acid, and fusion respectively. The majority of uranium in samples from the secondary ore body at Koongarra was contained in crystalline iron minerals (42 — 60%). In the primary ore body, the uranium distribution between mineral phases varies with depth. About 70% of the total uranium was incorporated with the Tamm's extractable mineral phases, in the weathered region of the drill hole DDH1 (19.4-20.5 m). In the deeper region of the drill hole DDH2 (33.0 — 34.3 m), most of the uranium was extractable with 6 Μ HCl. The 2 3 4 U/ 2 3 8 U activity ratios in each extraction are discussed on the basis of the alpha recoil effect, which occurs with the decay of 2 3 8 U through 2 3 Th to 2 3 U.