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Uranium evaluation of the Seward--Selawik area, Alaska

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6571184
The evaluation was based on a combination of geologic mapping, geochemical sampling, and aerial and ground radiometric surveying. In addition to specific occurrences of U minerals, large areas of coincident geochemical, geological, and radioactive indications of U and Th rich environments were found at other localities in the Hogatza plutonic trend and in less well identified parts of the Darby quartz monzonite pluton and the gneiss-schist complex of the Kigluaik and Bendeleben Mountains. The largest potentially U-bearing areas are those in the Central Bendeleben and Kigluaik Mountains. Several Tertiary sedimentary basins in the Seward--Selawik area locally contain rock types which have been considered as U sources, and contain also organic material and coal. (DLC)
Research Organization:
Hawley (C.C.) and Associates, Anchorage, AK (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
EY-76-C-13-1664
OSTI ID:
6571184
Report Number(s):
GJBX-105(78)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English