Collected Item: “Distribution of Uranium and Rare Elements in Radioactive Phosphate-Bearing Anomalies in Southeast Mongolia”
Врста публикације
Рад у часопису
Верзија рада
објављена верзија
Језик рада
енглески
Аутор/и (Милан Марковић, Никола Николић)
Boris Vakanjac, Neil Rutherford, Vesna Ristić Vakanjac, Tanita Đumić, Suzana Đorđević Milošević
Наслов рада (Наслов - поднаслов)
Distribution of Uranium and Rare Elements in Radioactive Phosphate-Bearing Anomalies in Southeast Mongolia
Наслов часописа
Minerals
Издавач (Београд : Просвета)
MDPI AG
Година издавања
2020
Сажетак на енглеском језику
Soviet and Mongolian geologists initiated geological exploration of Mongolia for minerals after World War II (1945). These activities lasted until the breakup of the USSR in 1991. As part of this exploration systematic uranium and rare element exploration was undertaken across Mongolia. New exploration resumed in Mongolia at the beginning of the 21st century for a range of ore and
mineral deposit styles including uranium, coal, base and precious metals and Fe-ore. This was generally undertaken by Western-based companies. This paper presents the results from regional reassessment by company exploration in 2011 for uranium radiometric anomalism found during the early Soviet investigations located north of Sainshand Provincial City and the results of preliminary prospecting studies near the town of Mandakh, both in southeastern Mongolia. These radioactive sites are characterized by elevated phosphate–uranium-rare element abundance. The primary company exploration objective of the new study was to confirm and characterize the anomalies and investigate in more detail the concentration of uranium and rare elements at these sites and assess the economic potential for their exploitation. A secondary objective based on the results from radiochemistry and rare element content was to highlight the potential environmental impact on livestock pastoral activities and well being of nomadic families who graze their stock over the anomalous zones in the region. The source of most of the anomalism is considered derived from erosion and subsequent transport in solution or in heavy minerals from extensively eroded granites and mafic magmas of various ages into graben basins and drainage depressions in the windswept arid terrain. The economic potential of the sites explored was considered too low to be of exploration interest. The anomalism does require characterization for environmental health and safety purposes, given sheep, goats, camels and other livestock traditionally bred in Mongolia are grazing on the enriched pasture and nomadic people reside on, or in their vicinity of elevated zones of radiometric anomalism from anomalous uranium, radon and radium held in phosphorus enriched soils.
mineral deposit styles including uranium, coal, base and precious metals and Fe-ore. This was generally undertaken by Western-based companies. This paper presents the results from regional reassessment by company exploration in 2011 for uranium radiometric anomalism found during the early Soviet investigations located north of Sainshand Provincial City and the results of preliminary prospecting studies near the town of Mandakh, both in southeastern Mongolia. These radioactive sites are characterized by elevated phosphate–uranium-rare element abundance. The primary company exploration objective of the new study was to confirm and characterize the anomalies and investigate in more detail the concentration of uranium and rare elements at these sites and assess the economic potential for their exploitation. A secondary objective based on the results from radiochemistry and rare element content was to highlight the potential environmental impact on livestock pastoral activities and well being of nomadic families who graze their stock over the anomalous zones in the region. The source of most of the anomalism is considered derived from erosion and subsequent transport in solution or in heavy minerals from extensively eroded granites and mafic magmas of various ages into graben basins and drainage depressions in the windswept arid terrain. The economic potential of the sites explored was considered too low to be of exploration interest. The anomalism does require characterization for environmental health and safety purposes, given sheep, goats, camels and other livestock traditionally bred in Mongolia are grazing on the enriched pasture and nomadic people reside on, or in their vicinity of elevated zones of radiometric anomalism from anomalous uranium, radon and radium held in phosphorus enriched soils.
Волумен/том или годиште часописа
10
Број часописа
4
Укупан број страна рада (уколико не постоји пагинација)
18
DOI број
10.3390/min10040307
ISSN број часописа
2075-163X
Географско подручје на које се односи публикација
Mongolija
Кључне речи на српском (одвојене знаком ", ")
uran, radioaktivnost, kreda, retki elementi, fosfati, anomalije, Dornogobi
Кључне речи на енглеском (одвојене знаком ", ")
uranium, radioactivity, Cretaceous, rare metals, phosphate, anomalies; Dornogovi
Линк
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/10/4/307/pdf
Шира категорија рада према правилнику МПНТ
M20
Ужа категорија рада према правилнику МПНТ
М22
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Creative Commons – Attribution-NonComercial 4.0 International
Формат дигиталног објекта
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