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Title: Uranium concentrations in natural waters, South Park, Colorado. [Part of National Uranium Resource Evaluation program]

Abstract

During the summer of 1975, 464 water samples from 149 locations in South Park, Colorado, were taken for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in order to test the field sampling and analytical methodologies proposed for the NURE Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance for uranium in the Rocky Mountain states and Alaska. The study showed, in the South Park area, that the analytical results do not vary significantly between samples which were untreated, filtered and acidified, filtered only, or acidified only. Furthermore, the analytical methods of fluorometry and delayed-neutron counting, as developed at the LASL for the reconnaissance work, provide fast, adequately precise, and complementary procedures for analyzing a broad range of uranium in natural waters. The data generated using this methodology does appear to identify uraniferous areas, and when applied using sound geochemical, geological, and hydrological principles, should prove a valuable tool in reconnaissance surveying to delineate new districts or areas of interest for uranium exploration.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
7347511
Report Number(s):
LA-6400-MS; GJBX-35-76
TRN: 77-000288
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; URANIUM; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR REACTION ANALYSIS; WATER; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLORADO; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS; PROSPECTING; SAMPLE PREPARATION; ACTINIDES; ELEMENTS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; METALS; NORTH AMERICA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION; SPECTROSCOPY; USA; 400101* - Activation, Nuclear Reaction, Radiometric & Radiochemical Procedures; 400104 - Spectral Procedures- (-1987); 050200 - Nuclear Fuels- Exploration- (-1987)

Citation Formats

Sharp, Jr, R R, and Aamodt, P L. Uranium concentrations in natural waters, South Park, Colorado. [Part of National Uranium Resource Evaluation program]. United States: N. p., 1976. Web. doi:10.2172/7347511.
Sharp, Jr, R R, & Aamodt, P L. Uranium concentrations in natural waters, South Park, Colorado. [Part of National Uranium Resource Evaluation program]. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/7347511
Sharp, Jr, R R, and Aamodt, P L. 1976. "Uranium concentrations in natural waters, South Park, Colorado. [Part of National Uranium Resource Evaluation program]". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/7347511. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7347511.
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title = {Uranium concentrations in natural waters, South Park, Colorado. [Part of National Uranium Resource Evaluation program]},
author = {Sharp, Jr, R R and Aamodt, P L},
abstractNote = {During the summer of 1975, 464 water samples from 149 locations in South Park, Colorado, were taken for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in order to test the field sampling and analytical methodologies proposed for the NURE Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance for uranium in the Rocky Mountain states and Alaska. The study showed, in the South Park area, that the analytical results do not vary significantly between samples which were untreated, filtered and acidified, filtered only, or acidified only. Furthermore, the analytical methods of fluorometry and delayed-neutron counting, as developed at the LASL for the reconnaissance work, provide fast, adequately precise, and complementary procedures for analyzing a broad range of uranium in natural waters. The data generated using this methodology does appear to identify uraniferous areas, and when applied using sound geochemical, geological, and hydrological principles, should prove a valuable tool in reconnaissance surveying to delineate new districts or areas of interest for uranium exploration.},
doi = {10.2172/7347511},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7347511}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1976},
month = {Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1976}
}