Relations of Uranium Enrichment and Carbonaceous Debris within the Daying Uranium Deposit, Northern Ordos Basin

Fan Zhang; Yangquan Jiao; Liqun Wu; Hui Rong; Longhui Wang

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Fan Zhang, Yangquan Jiao, Liqun Wu, Hui Rong, Longhui Wang. Relations of Uranium Enrichment and Carbonaceous Debris within the Daying Uranium Deposit, Northern Ordos Basin. Journal of Earth Science, 2019, 30(1): 142-157. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0952-0

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Fan Zhang, Yangquan Jiao, Liqun Wu, Hui Rong, Longhui Wang. Relations of Uranium Enrichment and Carbonaceous Debris within the Daying Uranium Deposit, Northern Ordos Basin. Journal of Earth Science, 2019, 30(1): 142-157. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0952-0

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Relations of Uranium Enrichment and Carbonaceous Debris within the Daying Uranium Deposit, Northern Ordos Basin

doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0952-0

Fan Zhang^1,2,
Yangquan Jiao^{1,2
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Liqun Wu^1,2,
Hui Rong^1,2,
Longhui Wang³

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Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources, Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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Faculty of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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No. 208 Geological Brigade, Inner Mongolia Nuclear Industry, Baotou 014000, China

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Corresponding author: Yangquan Jiao
Received Date: 22 Jun 2017
Accepted Date: 07 Sep 2017
Publish Date: 01 Feb 2019

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Carbonaceous debris (CD) is widely distributed in the sandstone of the Daying Uranium Deposit, northern Ordos Basin, and coexists with uranium minerals, which provides a favorable case for studying their relationship. Vitrinite reflectance (VR), macerals, moisture, volatile matter, ash, total sulfur (S_t) and uranium concentration of CD within the sandstone were studied. The results show that VR ranges from 0.372%Ro to 0.510% Ro with an average value of 0.438%Ro, indicating that CD is in the stage of lignite. The contents of vitrinite (V), inertinite (I) and minerals range from 83.18%-99.48%, 0-7.70%, and 0.34%-15.72%, respectively, with the corresponding average value of 95.51%, 1.34%, and 3.15%, respectively which indicates that V is the major maceral. Moisture on air dried basis (M_ad), volatile matter yield on dry, ash-free basis (V_daf), ash yield on dried basis (A_d) and S_t mostly range from 7.95%-16.09%, 44.70%-66.54%, 4.84%-26.24% and 0.24%-1.12%, respectively, while their average values are 12.43%, 53.41%, 16.57% and 0.77%, respectively. It suggests that CD is of medium-high moisture, super-high volatile matter, low-medium ash and low sulfur. Uranium concentration ranges from 29 ppm to 92 ppm with an average value of 50 ppm, and uranium concentration increases with the decreased distance to CD. On the whole, M_ad and V_daf decrease with increasing burial depth, which indicates that CD experienced the burial metamorphism. However, M_ad and V_daf obviously decrease in uranium-rich areas whereas A_d and S_t noticeably increase. Comprehensive studies suggest that there is a certain relationship between uranium enrichment and CD. CD in the stage of lignite helps the adsorption of uranium. On one hand, radioactivity uranium enrichment makes organic matter maturation increase with a decrease in moisture and volatile matter. On the other hand, an increase in organic matter maturation, caused by radioactivity uranium enrichment, results in an increase in uranium minerals, which is instructive in the study of regional uranium mineralization and metallogenic regularity.
- carbonaceous debris,
- coal property parameters,
- Daying Uranium Deposit,
- Ordos Basin

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