Beta
152961

Primary uranium mineralization in sheared pegmatite of Wadi El Regita, South Sinai, Egypt

Article

Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

An important sheared pegmatite zone is hosted by the monzogranite of Wadi El Regita area, South Sinai. This shear zone has an elongated shape with N 80ο W trend and includes numerous highly altered spots. It is considered as the highest measured radioactive shear zone recorded in the area. Based on field ground ɣ-ray spectrometric survey of the sheared pegmatite zone, 4 contour maps were compiled for total count (Tc), eU, eTh and eU/eTh ratio. The pegmatite shear zone is characterized by high levels of radiometric measurements especially along its strike. The obtained maps exhibit the presence of three main anomalies associated with the highly altered spots and mostly due to the presence of radioactive minerals e.g. brannerite, pitchekitery, davidite and uraninite minerals, which are recorded for the first time in Sinai by the first author (Bishr, 2007). The different minerals had been identified based on their radioactive and physical properties as well as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (XL30-ESEM, Philips) attached with EDAX unit. The ESEM analyses indicate the presence of brannerite, orthobrannerite, petscheckite, liandratite, uraninite, pyrochlores and columbites minerals. The average uranium contents of all the studied primary minerals grains vary from 12.73 to 82.87 wt%. Overall, Ce was the most abundant LREE in these grains. The Ce contents vary from 1.1 to 6.19 wt% and Nd varies from 0.15 to 2.35 wt%. The major factors controlling the distribution of uranium mineralization within the studied sheared pegmatite are fracture system developed through the zoned pegmatite body during the course of the hydrothermal solutions migrated from deeper source through the structural weaknesses of the shear zone.

DOI

10.21608/djs.2008.152961

Authors

First Name

Amer H. A.

Last Name

Bishr

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Nuclear Materials Authority, P.O. Box 530, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Said A.

Last Name

Azzaz

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciece, Zagazzig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Hassan M.

Last Name

Sherif

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Nuclear Materials Authority, P.O. Box 530, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ibrahim E.

Last Name

El-Aassy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Nuclear Materials Authority, P.O. Box 530, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

32

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

22528

Issue Date

2008-06-01

Receive Date

2021-03-01

Publish Date

2008-06-01

Page Start

32

Page End

47

Print ISSN

1012-5965

Online ISSN

2735-5306

Link

https://djs.journals.ekb.eg/article_152961.html

Detail API

https://djs.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=152961

Order

8

Type

Research and Reference

Type Code

1,686

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Delta Journal of Science

Publication Link

https://djs.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Primary uranium mineralization in sheared pegmatite of Wadi El Regita, South Sinai, Egypt

Details

Type

Article

Created At

23 Jan 2023