INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
China has discovered world's deepest sandstone industrial uranium mineralization at a depth of 1,820 meters underground in Tarim Basin in
northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA) announced on Friday.Industrial uranium
mineralization is a direct and reliable clue for finding industrial uranium deposits.The industrial uranium mineralization discovered this
time is the first thick and large industrial uranium mineralization found in the red variegated layer in the uninhabited area in the
hinterland of the Tarim Basin desert in China, filling the gap in mineral exploration in the country's largest desert-covered area.The
discovery also means that China has integrated and established a set of green and efficient detection technology systems for sandstone-type
uranium mines suitable for desert-covered areas, which will greatly enhance the country's uranium resource exploration capabilities and lay
a solid foundation for the whole industry's steady development, according to nuclear scientists."We have made predictions of the
mineralization prospects of the Tarim Basin at different scales
Based on the prediction results, we carried out remote sensing, geophysical, geochemical and other measurements or explorations in key
By implementing relatively deep drilling verification, we finally discovered thick industrial uranium mineralization in the desert heart of
The discovery is of significance and has great value and prospects," said Qin Mingkuan, principal investigator of China National Nuclear
