鄂尔多斯盆地南缘彬县地区水文地球化学及铀成矿作用特征

水文地质作用是砂岩型铀矿成矿过程中不可缺少的重要作用之一。通过陕西彬县地区水文地质条件和水文地球化学环境分析,将中新生代地层地下水划分为松散岩类孔隙水、碎屑岩类孔隙裂隙水和碎屑岩类裂隙水3种类型。根据地下水的补给、径流、排泄条件,划分出水交替强烈带、水交替缓慢带和水交替滞缓带3个不同的水动力分带。不同类型地下水的含铀性、不同分带铀的运移和富集特征,以及酸、碱性地下水对围岩蚀变与铀成矿的作用表明,中侏罗统直罗组砂岩含矿含水层中铀成矿主要经历了沉积成岩时期铀的预富集作用、古地下水的后生改造叠加成矿作用和深部油田水的还原成矿作用,铀成矿作用为复合成因类型。     

非洲铀矿资源分布、地质特征与勘查开发

非洲铀矿资源丰富,在全球占有重要地位,是我国利用铀矿资源的重要来源地。通过分析非洲259处已知铀矿床（点）的地质特征与勘查开发现状,揭示非洲铀矿资源具有分布集中、规模巨大、矿床类型多样等特点,砂岩型、古石英-卵石砾岩型、侵入岩型是最重要的铀矿类型,非洲铀矿主要分布于卡普瓦尔克拉通、新元古代褶皱带的达马拉褶皱带和西非活动带伊勒姆登大型盆地,成矿作用明显受地层、构造、岩浆岩等控制。不同类型矿床成矿时代具有各自特征,古石英-卵石砾岩型铀矿床全部形成于太古宙,侵入岩型铀矿床大多形成于元古宙,砂岩型铀矿床形成时代跨度大,从元古宙到新生代均有产出。近十年来非洲新增铀储量27万吨。建议国内企业抓住机遇,以侵入岩型和砂岩型铀矿为投资重点,加强在纳米比亚和尼日尔等铀矿资源国的勘查开发合作。     

喀什凹陷构造演化与砂岩型铀成矿关系

运用构造地质学与现代水成铀矿理论,分析喀什凹陷的构造特征与构造演化过程,并研究构造演化与铀成矿的关系,认为喀什凹陷作为一个相对独立的次级构造单元,经历了中新生代以来的多次扩张拗陷和被动挤压上隆的构造演化过程,为砂岩型铀成矿创造了条件,并决定砂岩型铀矿床的形成、改造与保存.晚三叠—中侏罗世扩张拗陷,沉积巨厚含煤碎屑岩建造,形成初始铀源;晚侏罗世挤压上隆,沿山前遭受风化剥蚀,形成古层间氧化带和铀矿化;早白垩—渐新世快速沉降,沉积巨厚层陆相与海相碎屑岩,使古层间氧化带和铀矿化得以保存;渐新世以来大规模上隆,沿山前快速剥蚀,破坏了早期的铀矿化,铀元素重新分配.表明以层间氧化带砂岩型铀矿化在中下侏罗统含煤碎屑岩建造中不甚发育,或者说不可能形成较大的层间氧化带或铀矿床,而下白垩统则形成了与油气次生还原作用有关的铀矿床,如巴什布拉克矿床.     

康滇地轴中南段铀成矿条件及远景分析

本文对康滇地轴中南段铀矿化划分出３种类型（砂岩型、钠交代岩型和元古代浅变质岩型），并阐明其主要特征。提出了元古代地壳演化曾经历了原始古陆形成阶段、沉降活动阶段和基底再团结阶段，认为中元古界昆阳群是有别于典型的含铀碳硅泥岩沉积建造。通过对该区部分岩石原始铀含量进行研究，提出了有关岩石可作为该区铀源岩的新认识；划分出碱性和酸性两大类型的热液蚀变，指出本区以发育碱性蚀变地段的成矿前景较好。指出该区铀成矿前景：（１）该区不具备形成澳加式元古代不整合面型铀矿床的地质条件；（２）非澳加式元古代不整合面型的铀成矿前景较差；（３）本区碱（钠）交代岩型铀矿化具有一定的找矿前景。     

Uranium Provinces in China

Three uranium provinces are recognized in China, the Southeast China uranium province, the Northeast China-Inner Mongolia uranium province and the Northwest China (Xinjiang) uranium province. The latter two promise good potential for uranium resources and are major exploration target areas in recent years. There are two major types of uranium deposits: the Phanerozoic hydrothermal type (vein type) and the Meso-Cenozoic sandstone type in different proportions in the three uranium provinces. The most important reason or prerequisite for the formation of these uranium provinces is that Precambrian uranium-enriched old basement or its broken parts (median massifs) exists or once existed in these regions, and underwent strong tectonomagmatic activation during Phanerozoic time. Uranium was mobilized from the old basement and migrated upwards to the upper structural level together with the acidic magma originating from anatexis and the primary fluids, which were then mixed with meteoric water and resulted in t     

Behavior of uranium under conditions of interaction of rocks and ores with subsurface water

The behavior of uranium during interaction of subsurface water with crystalline rocks and uranium ores is considered in connection with the problem of safe underground insulation of spent nuclear fuel (SNF). Since subsurface water interacts with crystalline rocks formed at a high temperature, the mineral composition of these rocks and uranium species therein are thermodynamically unstable. Therefore, reactions directed toward the establishment of equilibrium proceed in the water-rock system. At great depths that are characterized by hindered water exchange, where subsurface water acquires near-neutral and reducing properties, the interaction is extremely sluggish and is expressed in the formation of micro- and nanoparticles of secondary minerals. Under such conditions, the slow diffusion redistribution of uranium with enrichment in absorbed forms relative to all other uranium species is realized as well. The products of secondary alteration of Fe- and Ti-bearing minerals serve as the main sorbents of uranium. The rate of alteration of minerals and conversion of uranium species into absorbed forms is slow, and the results of these processes are insignificant, so that the rocks and uranium species therein may be regarded as unaltered. Under reducing conditions, subsurface water is always saturated with uranium. Whether water interacts with rock or uranium ore, the equilibrium uranium concentration in water is only ≤10^?8 mol/l. Uraninite ore under such conditions always remains stable irrespective of its age. The stability conditions of uranium ore are quite suitable for safe insulation of SNF, which consists of 95% uraninite (UO₂) and is a confinement matrix for all other radionuclides. The disposal of SNF in massifs of crystalline rocks at depths below 500 m, where reducing conditions are predominant, is a reliable guarantee of high SNF stability. Under oxidizing conditions of the upper hydrodynamic zone, the rate of interaction of rocks with subsurface water increases by orders of magnitude and subsurface water is commonly undersaturated with uranium. Uranium absorbed by secondary minerals, particularly by iron hydroxides and leucoxene, is its single stable species under oxidizing conditions. The impact of oxygen-bearing water leads to destruction of uranium ore. This process is realized simultaneously at different hypsometric levels even if the permeability of the medium is variable in both the lateral and vertical directions. As a result, intervals containing uranyl minerals and relics of primary uranium ore are combined in ore-bearing zones with intervals of completely dissolved uranium minerals. A wide halo of elevated uranium contents caused by sorption is always retained at the location of uranium ore entirely destroyed by weathering. Uranium ore commonly finds itself in the aeration zone due to technogenic subsidence of the groundwater table caused by open-pit mining or pumping out of water from underground mines. The capillary and film waters that interact with rocks and ores in this zone are supplemented by free water filtering along fractures when rain falls or snow is thawing. The interaction of uranium ore with capillary water results in oxidation of uraninite, accompanied by loosening of the mineral surface, formation of microfractures, and an increase in solubility with enrichment of capillary water in uranium up to 10^?4 mol/l. Secondary U(VI) minerals, first of all, uranyl hydroxides and silicates, replace uraninite, and uranium undergoes local diffusion redistribution with its sorption by secondary minerals of host rocks. The influx of free water facilitates the complete dissolution of primary and secondary uranium minerals, the removal of uranium at the sites of groundwater discharge, and its redeposition under reducing conditions at a greater depth. It is evident that the conditions of the upper hydrodynamic zone and the aeration zone are unfit for long-term insulation of SNF and high-level wastes because, after the failure of containers, the leakage of radionuclides into the environment becomes inevitable.     

The possible role of benthic microbial mats during the formation of carbonaceous shales in shallow Mid-Proterozoic basins

A considerable portion of the upper member of the Mid-Proterozoic Newland Formation, Meagher County, Montana, consists of carbonaceous silty shales (striped shale facies). This type of shale facies is common in Proterozoic basins and is host to several major base metal deposits. The striped shales were deposited in a subtidal setting, basinward of carbonates characterized by cryptalgal laminites, mudcracks and flat pebble conglomerates. The carbonaceous silty shales are considered remnants of benthic microbial mats. Irregular internal laminae, patterns of particle trapping, mechanical deformation during penecontemporaneous soft-sediment deformation and filamentous microbiota provide evidence for this interpretation. The dolomitic clayey shale contains graded silt-clay couplets, and these are interpreted as storm layers. Modern subtidal microbial mats can only survive under special conditions, but in the Proterozoic, it is suggested that benthic microbial mats colonized the shallow seafloor during periods of low sediment input, leading to the formation of carbonaceous shales.     

钠长石与水云母型铀矿成矿特征对比与成矿机理探讨

本文以６２１与６７０地区为例，概述了钠长石与水云母型铀矿产出的地质背景及成矿前期岩石的蚀变特征，综合分析了这两类蚀变岩型铀矿矿石结构构造、矿物成分、共生元素、成矿温度、成矿时间、流体成分及放射性场等方面的差异性。探讨了这两类铀矿不同的成因机制：钠长石型铀矿成矿物质主要来自围岩，铀以碳酸铀酰络离子［ＵＯ２（ＣＯ３）３］４形式搬运，铀的析出富集主要由溶液成分、碱度发生突变所引起；而水云母型铀矿成矿物质主要来自富铀的火山期后热液，铀以钼酸钠酰络离子［ＵＯ２（ＭｏＯ４）２］２形式迁移，铀沉淀富集主要由溶液温度、压力降低所引起。     

内蒙古查干德勒苏地区构造演化与铀的富集

位于两大构造单元结合带的查干德勒苏地区，中元古代在近EW向裂陷槽内接受了巨厚的含炭质、白云质和火山物质的渣尔泰群滨浅海相沉积建造，铀元素得到第一次预富集；大约1.4Ga前的白云鄂博运动，出现大量中酸性岩浆侵入和广泛的区域变质作用、混合岩化作用，铀元素得到第二次预富集；晚石炭世末的中华力西运动第Ⅱ幕，形成罕乌拉、英巴岩基的主体，铀元素得到第三次预富集；早白垩世早期的陆相断陷盆地沉积，含有较多的有机质，铀元素得到第四次预富集；新生代喜马拉雅构造运动期，气候干旱炎热，在地表地下水的作用下，铀元素出现了一次大规模的活化、迁移和富集，成为查干德勒苏地区砂岩型铀矿的主要矿化期。     

Petrochemical characteristics of carbonaceous shales in the eastern Bureya massif and their precious-metal mineralization

Some geological, petrochemical, and geochemical characteristics of carbonaceous shales as a new unconventional natural source of gold and PGE are considered by the example of the Kimkan and Sutyr’ units of the Bureya massif (southern Far East, Russia). It is shown that shales of the units belong to the terrigenous-carbonaceous and siliceous-carbonaceous formations. They accumulated in deep-water trenches, and the active continental margin was probably their main provenance. The carbonaceous terrigenous-sedimentary units and precious-metalores in them show specific petrochemical characteristics different for complexes with predominantly PGE and gold mineralization. According to these characteristics, carbonaceous complexes with high Fe contents, low total contents of alkalies, and high K/Na ratios are promising for PGE-rich ores. Gold ores are usually localized in black-shale strata with high total contents of alkalies and low K/Na. In this respect, the shales and Fe-ores of the Kimkan unit obviously contain high-PGE mineralization, while the rocks of the Sutyr’ unit can bear gold deposits. We assume that the PGE mineralization is genetically related to the formation and transformation of carbonaceous rocks. At the same time, most of gold in the carbonaceous shales is native and is not related to carbon; it is present in mineral assemblages resulted from superimposed sulfidization and silicification.     

Sources and Typomorphism of Platinum in Carbonaceous Rocks in Far East Russia

Results of the study of carbonaceous metasedimentary rocks in the northern part of the Khanka and eastern part of the Bureya massifs (Primorye and Khabarovsk territories, JAR) and associated platinum mineralization are presented. It is shown that platinum minerals are represented by microparticle dispersion in shales of the greenschist-facies metamorphism (Sutyr and Kimkan sequences, Mitrofanovo Formation) and by Pt and PtO₂ nanoparticles associated closely with graphite in shales of the amphibolite facies (Turgenev and Soyuznoe graphite deposits). The studied carbonaceous sequences were likely formed in the hemipelagic setting in a suprasubduction trench during the intense input of terrigenous material into basin. Carbon was derived from the marine biogenic material and superimposed graphitization related to a lower crustal material. Iron ores in the carbonaceous shales are hydrothermal formations. Platinum mineralization was likely related to two sources: (i) sedimentary-chemogenic source that made up the protolith of graphite–sericite–quartz shales of the Sutyr and Kimkan sequences (Mitrofanovo Formation); (ii) graphitizing fluid generated in deep magma chambers. Mineralization produced from these sources is transformed during the hydrothermal activity (coarsening of microparticles) and/or regional metamorphism (disintegration of microparticles and remobilization of Pt into graphite).     

中国盆地铀资源概述

近20多年来,我国在北方6大沉积盆地中陆续发现了系列大型和超大型砂岩型铀矿床,丰富的资源量昭示了沉积盆地是一个巨大的促使铀汇聚的化学反应器.然而,盆地中的铀矿床类型远不止于砂岩型一种,它们一并构成了宝贵的盆地铀资源.将在沉积盆地发展演化过程中,受沉积、成岩和构造作用制约而促使铀富集形成的系列铀矿床,统称为盆地铀资源.充分考虑铀成矿作用的关键制约要素和矿床形成的发育时序,将盆地铀资源划分为同沉积型、不整合型和成岩型三大类13个亚类型矿床.在盆山耦合的构造体制驱动下,铀的变价属性是铀大尺度循环（汇聚与分散）的基础,这使得各种铀矿床之间既具有成因联系又能相互转化.我国已探明盆地铀资源的矿床成因类型、时空分布和资源量规模极不均衡,但是北方砂岩型铀矿床和南方碳硅泥岩型铀矿床构成了盆地铀资源的主体,从而具有“一北一南”、“一陆一海”、“一新一老”的基本格局.目前,北方砂岩型铀矿是我国勘查和开发的重点,然而铀储层结构和物质成分的非均质性极大,地浸采铀技术亟需革新以适宜多数砂岩型铀矿床的开发.同时,需要在新地区、新层位发现更多新类型铀矿床,还需要依赖技术研发盘活已发现的以南方碳硅泥岩型铀矿床为代表的“超低孔渗”、“富有机质”、“深埋藏”的系列“呆矿”.      

8411地区深熔作用的Sr,Nd同位素地质研究

8411地区深熔作用的同位素地质研究表明,J_(1-2)砂岩是以元古代古陆壳供源的湖相沉积岩、岩浆岩为元古代古陆在下地壳局部重熔或重熔-混染的产物。铀的预富集与深熔作用中硅铝质地壳岩浆混染有关。铀矿物和岩浆岩的同位素组成相似。这些研究结果,结合岩石学、矿物学、同位素演化和稀土含量分析,认识到铀来自深源,元古代地层是铀源层。     

Paleontological analysis of a lacustrine carbonaceous uranium deposit at the Anderson mine, Date Creek basin, west-central Arizona (U.S.A.)

The Tertiary sedimentary sequence of the Date Creek basin area of Arizona is composed principally of intertonguing alluvial-fan and lacustrine deposits. The lacustrine rocks contain large intermediate- to, locally, high-grade uranium deposits that form one of the largest uranium resources in the United States (an estimated 670,000 tons of U₃O₈ at an average grade of 0.023% is indicated by drilling to date). At the Anderson mine, about 50,000 tons of U₃O₈ occurs in lacustrine carbonaceous siltstones and mudstones (using a cutoff grade of 0.01%). The Anderson mine constitutes a new class of ore deposit, a lacustrine carbonaceous uranium deposit.Floral and faunal remains at the Anderson mine played a critical role in creating and documenting conditions necessary for uranium mineralization. Organic-rich, uraniferous rocks at the Anderson mine contain plant remains and ostracodes having remarkably detailed preservation of internal features because of infilling by opaline silica. This preservation suggests that the alkaline lake waters in the mine area contained high concentrations of dissolved silica and that silicification occurred rapidly, before compaction or cementation of the enclosing sediment. Uranium coprecipitated with the silica. Thinly laminated, dark-colored, siliceous beds contain centric diatoms preserved with carbonaceous material suggesting that lake waters at the mine were locally deep and anoxic. These alkaline, silica-charged waters and a stagnant, anoxic environment in parts of the lake were necessary conditions for the precipitation of large amounts of uranium in the lake-bottom sediments.Sediments at the Anderson mine contain plant remains and pollen that were derived from diverse vegetative zones suggesting about 1500 m of relief in the area at the time of deposition. The pollen suggests that the valley floor was semiarid and subtropical, whereas nearby mountains supported temperate deciduous forests.     

Contourites associated with pelagic mudrocks and distal delta-fed turbidites in the Lower Proterozoic Timeball Hill Formation epeiric basin (Transvaal Supergroup), South Africa

Five genetic facies associations/architectural elements are recognised for the epeiric sea deposits preserved in the Early Proterozoic Timeball Hill Formation, South Africa. Basal carbonaceous mudrocks, interpreted as anoxic suspension deposits, grade up into sheet-like, laminated, graded mudrocks and succeeding sheets of laminated and cross-laminated siltstones and fine-grained sandstones. The latter two architectural elements are compatible with the Te, Td and Tc subdivisions of low-density turbidity current systems. Thin interbeds of stromatolitic carbonate within these first three facies associations support photic water depths up to about 100 m. Laterally extensive sheets of mature, cross-bedded sandstone disconformably overlie the turbidite deposits, and are ascribed to lower tidal flat processes. Interbedded lenticular, immature sandstones and mudrocks comprise the fifth architectural element, and are interpreted as medial to upper tidal flat sediments. Small lenses of coarse siltstone–very fine-grained sandstone, analogous to modern continental rise contourite deposits, occur within the suspension and distal turbidite sediments, and also form local wedges of inferred contourites at the transition from suspension to lowermost turbidite deposits. Blanketing and progressive shallowing of the floor of the Timeball Hill basin by basal suspension deposits greatly reduced wave action, thereby promoting preservation of low-density turbidity current deposits across the basin under stillstand or highstand conditions. A lowstand tidal flat facies tract laid down widespread sandy deposits of the medial Klapperkop Member within the formation. Salinity gradients and contemporaneous cold periglacial water masses were probably responsible for formation of the inferred contourites. The combination of the depositional systems interpreted for the Timeball Hill Formation may provide a provisional model for Early Proterozoic epeiric basin settings.     

四川盆地北缘旺苍背斜铀成矿地质特征及找矿前景

旺苍背斜位于四川盆地北缘北西部,工作程度较低。在收集前人资料以及野外地质调查的基础上,分析其地质特征、含矿层特征、铀矿化特征,认为铀矿化产于苍溪组第一层,赋存于富含有机质的岩屑砂岩或砾岩中,距上侏罗统蓬莱镇组与下白垩统苍溪组的区域性假整合面较近,与冲刷构造关系密切,属于以沉积成矿为主,后生改造为辅的砂岩型铀矿。根据成矿理论,分析了构造背景、铀源、目的层、地貌及水文地质、古气候、已知铀矿化信息等成矿判据,认为旺苍背斜具备了形成砂岩型铀矿床的成矿条件,并指出在转折端一带铀异常点(带)较为密集,含矿砂体厚度大,富含有机质,沉积构造发育,地下水具备完善补给-径流-排泄系统,具有较好的找矿前景。     

中国碳硅泥岩型铀矿地球化学指示元素特征及异常模式

根据全国铀矿资源潜力评价项目研究成果,在大量研究我国碳硅泥岩型铀矿地球化学异常特征的基础上,总结了一套对碳硅泥岩型铀矿勘查稳定且行之有效的指示元素及其组合,确定了碳硅泥岩型铀矿地球化学异常模式,并以实例说明。     

The role of the thermal convection of fluids in the formation of unconformity-type uranium deposits: the Athabasca Basin,Canada

In the global production of uranium, ~18% belong to the unconformity-type Canadian deposits localized in the Athabasca Basin. These deposits, which are unique in terms of their ore quality, were primarily studied by Canadian and French scientists. They have elaborated the diagenetic–hydrothermal hypothesis of ore formation, which suggests that (1) the deposits were formed within a sedimentary basin near an unconformity surface dividing the folded Archean–Proterozoic metamorphic basement and a gently dipping sedimentary cover, which is not affected by metamorphism; (2) the spatial accommodation of the deposits is controlled by the rejuvenated faults in the basement at their exit into the overlying sedimentary sequence; the ore bodies are localized above and below the unconformity surface; (3) the occurrence of graphite-bearing rocks is an important factor in controlling the local structural mineralization; (4) the ore bodies are the products of uranium precipitation on a reducing barrier. The mechanism that drives the circulation of ore-forming hydrothermal solutions has remained one of the main unclear questions in the general genetic concept. The ore was deposited above the surface of the unconformity due to the upflow discharge of the solution from the fault zones into the overlying conglomerate and sandstone. The ore formation below this surface is a result of the downflow migration of the solutions along the fault zones from sandstone into the basement rocks. A thermal convective system with the conjugated convection cells in the basement and sedimentary fill of the basin may be a possible explanation of why the hydrotherms circulate in the opposite directions. The results of our computations in the model setting of the free thermal convection of fluids are consistent with the conceptual reasoning about the conditions of the formation of unique uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin. The calculated rates of the focused solution circulation through the fault zones in the upflow and downflow branches of a convection cell allow us to evaluate the time of ore formation up to the first hundreds of thousands years.     

滇西陇川盆地砂岩型铀矿成矿条件及远景分析

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鄂尔多斯盆地北部直罗组砂岩重矿物分布特征及其指示意义

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