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Table 93. — Identified uranium resources in the United States and other countries that have reported resources 



[Identified resources are specific, identified mineral deposits that may or may not be evaluated as to extent and srade, and whose contained min- 

 erals may or may not be profitably recoverable with existing technology and economic conditions] 



Locality 



Type of deposit 



Grade 

 (percent 

 U3O8) 



Short 

 tons 

 UjOs 



Source of data 



United States: western States Peneconcordant in 



sandstone, vein. 

 Canada : 



Blind River -Elliot Lake, Wollaston Lake, Bancroft, Precambrian con- 



Beaverlodge. glomerate, veins, 



and other types. 

 Elliot Lake Precambrian con- 

 glomerate. 



Mexico: Chihuahua (Aldama) and other States Peneconcordant in 



sandstone, vein. 

 Argentina: Salta, Mendoza Sandstone. 



France: Vendee, Limousin, Forez, Morvan do 



Portugal: Viseu (Urgeirica), Nisa, Guarda do 



0.22 273,000 



Spain: Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca), Andujar do >.10 



Sweden: Vastergotland (Billingen), Narke 



Other Europe: West Germany, Italy, Turkey, Yugoslavia 



Marine black shale. 

 Vein, peneconcord- 

 ant in sandstone. 



Central Africa Republic: Bakouma Phosphatic-fiUing ~.10 



karst in Pre- 

 cambrian dolo- 

 mite. 



Gabon: Mounana (Franceville), Mikouloungou Structural con- 

 trolled dissemina- >.10 

 tion in Precam- 

 brian sandstone. 



Niger: Arlit Peneconcordant in .29 



sandstone. 



Azelick, Madaouela do >.10 



South Africa, South West Africa: Witwatersrand, Rossing Precambrian con- <.10 



glomerate, 

 igneous rock. 

 Australia: Mary Kathleen, Alligator Rivers area (Nabarlek, Vein and other >.10 



Jim Jim, Ranger) , Frome Lake. types. 



India: Jaduguda, Bihar Vein. .06-.07 



Japan: Ningyo-Toge Peneconcordant (?) .06 



in Miocene and 

 Pliocene con- 

 conglomerate. 



Total 



U.S. Atomic Energy 

 Comm. (1972b). 



>.10 230,000 Sherman (1972). 



<.10 130,000 

 >.10 2,380 



>.10 9,000 



>.10 66,400 



>.10 9,500 



11,000 



.03 350,000 

 >.10 6,500 



19,500 



Sherman (1972). 

 Sherman (1970). 



European Nuclear 

 Energy Agency 

 and International 

 Atomic Energy 

 Agency (1969). 



Sherman (1972). 



European Nuclear 

 Energy Agency 

 and International 

 Atomic Energy 

 Agency (1969). 



European Nuclear 

 Energy Agency 

 and International 

 Atomic Energy 

 Agency (1969). 



Sherman (1972). 



European Nuclear 

 Energy Agency 

 and International 

 Atomic Energy 

 Agency (1969). 



Sherman (1972). 



19,500 Sherman (1972). 

 26,000 Sherman (1972). 



13,100 Sherman (1969). 

 300,000 Sherman (1972). 



100.000 Sherman (1971). 



36,000 Mining Journal 

 (1971). 

 4,000 European Nuclear 

 Energy Agency 

 (1965). 



1,605,880 



each in Colorado and Utah, and the rest in a few 

 other Western States. 



These identified recoverable resources, plus sev- 

 eral thousand tons of UsO? that might be recovered 

 each year as a minor byproduct from phosphate rock 

 and some copper ores, are adequate to satisfy esti- 

 mated domestic requirements to the early 1980's, 

 and most of these resources will be mined by that 

 time. 



Recoverable uranium resources outside the United 

 States listed in table 93 are largely in Precambrian 

 conglomerate and in vein and related types. Most of 

 these deposits average more than 0.10 percent UsOs 

 and may be mined for their uranium content alone. 

 Sweden recovers uranium from black shale deposits 

 having an uncommonly high grade for black shale of 

 0.03 percent UsOs (table 93). In the Witwatersrand, 

 South Africa, uranium is a byproduct or coproduct 



