Original scientific paper

Uranium Minerals in the Radlovac Series Metasediments at Mt. Papuk, Croatia

Stjepan Šćavničar ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology, Horvatovac bb, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Vladimir Bermanec ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology, Horvatovac bb, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Goran Kniewald ; Rudjer Bošković Institute, Department of Marine and Environmental
Delko Barišić ; Rudjer Bošković Institute, Department of Marine and Environmental
Višnja Oreščanin ; Rudjer Bošković Institute, Department of Marine and Environmental

Abstract

Applying a combination of different methods – X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, gamma-spectroscopy and X-ray spectroscopy, a suite of uranium minerals, meta-torbernite, meta-uranospinite and meta-zeunerite was identified in metasediments of the Radlovac series at the Mt. Papuk area, Croatia. The accessory minerals galena, zircon, rutile, chalcopyrite and cuprite, as well as an unidentified Ni-bearing phase are also present.
The mineral assemblage indicates a sequence of epigenetic and supergene processes affecting the Radlovac series.

Keywords

Uranium mineralization; Meta-torbernite; Meta-uranospinite; Meta-zeunerite; Mt. Papuk; Radlovac series; Epigenetic–sedimentary mineralisation

Hrčak ID:

22014

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/22014

Publication date:

28.12.2007.

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