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Resurgent India Vision 2020 in Metals and Minerals Sector, September 28, 2012, New Delhi
Outline
Uranium exploration methodology
Major uranium provinces of India
Promising provinces
Indias uranium resources
Thorium exploration in India
Beach and inland placer deposits
Thorium resources
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Stage I
Natural uranium used as fuel in
Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR)
Fissile isotope U-235 (0.7% of natural U)
will sustain a chain reaction
Fertile isotope U-238 on absorbing a
neutron yields fissile Pu-239
The spent fuel is reprocessed to get Pu-239
Stage II
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Uranium exploration
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Exploration methodology
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Mahadek basin,
Meghalaya
Singhbhum
Shear Zone,
Jharkhand
Kaladgi basin, Karnataka
Bhima basin,
Karnataka
Vein type
North
Cuddapah basin,
Andhra Pradesh
South
Cuddapah Basin,
Andhra Pradesh
Sandstone type
Unconformity related
Dolostone hosted Stratabound
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200
400 km
Delhi
Hyderabad
Cuddapah Basin
Kaladgi Basin
Bhima Basin
Pakhal Basin
Vindhyan Basin
Chhattisgarh Basin
Khairargarh Basin
Ampani Basin
Abhujhmar Basin
Indravati Basin
Sukma Basin
Shillong Basin
Kunjar Basin
Gwalior Basin
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15Km
17
15'
Kagna river
F
F
17 '
F
F
F
Fracture zone
INDEX
LATERITE
DECCAN TRAP
16
45'
GOGI
16
30'
DYKE
(RABANPALLI Fm)
YOUNGER GRANITE
YOUNGER SCHIST BELT
PENINSULAR GNEISS
FAULT
SURFACE RADIOACTIVITY
16
15'
76 15'
0
76 30'
76 45'
0
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77 15'
0
77 30'
0
ROHIL PROSPECT
Section
DISTT. SIKAR , RAJASTHAN
T.S.of BH.NO.GTR-166,81,100, 120,18,19,39 & RHL-16,19,18(p) & 44
50m
WEST
GTR-166
GTR-81
50
EAST
100m
GTR-120 GTR-18
GTR-19
500m
488.22m
486.70m
450
495.30m GTR-100
B1
10
0
0.126X1.51m
m 1+7 m
.75
.50
84
89
.1 DD.2
DD
D
D
0.039X4.94m
0.041X9.27m
200
7.3
.43
DD
5m
0m
5.1
.71
DD
0m
19.6
0.036x1.17*
m
0.024x1.15m
0.030x4.59m
0.033x4.06m
50
33+7
3+7
0.024X1.73m*
0.030X1.21m
0.041X1.63m
0.058X1.34m
0.103x1.32m
1a
A
1+7
6.2
.73
DD
3 4
0.035x4.65m
0.041X5.55m
0.064X1.34m
5m
5.8
.92
DD
DD
.7
93
.95
m
0m
800m
0.064 x 7.02m
0.058 x 6.09m
0.078 x 12.79m B3
486.82m
41 1
14
14
1
1
1
INDEX
D
D
0.049x1.08m
0.037X2.21m
0.043X3.07mB4
489.35m RHL-44
1+1a
0.075x1.58m
1
3 0.050x1.49m
3
0.057x6.82m
00
RHL-18(P)
DD
.5
38
.40
m
.6
DD
100
-100
0.077X15.50m
1a
0.059X4.17m
7
7
1+ 1a3a 0.107x1.01m
1+ 1a
0.066x1.16m
0.063X1.53m
0.039x6.55m
0.024x1.16m
0.050x1.58m
150
-50
0.028X1.39m
7
1+
4 1+1a
1a
+7
1a10.055X4.85m
40
0
250
A A1
m
05
1.
25
300
1
1a
1
0.023X2.21m
1+1a
7
1+
+7
31
350
0.025X2.15m
0.043X2.22m
400
486.90m
40
2.
40
m
495.01m
N-2
B2 0.081x 6.32m
OVER BURDEN
ZONE OF ALTERATION
4
3 3a
2
1 1a
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Gondwana basins
of Central India
Kaladgi basin
Dharwar QPC
Vindhyan basin
Bijawar basin
Shillong basin
Chhattisgarh
basin
Dongargarh
Province
Abujhmar basin
Dharmapuri
Shear zone
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Indravati basin
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1,84,446 t U3O8
(As on June 2012)
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Thorium exploration
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Thorium mineralisation
Heavy Mineral Placer Sand deposits
Shoreline Placer
Alluvial Placer
Inland aeolian Placer
Alkaline Complexes
Carbonatite
Alkali granite/Pegmatite
Pegmatite
Hydrothermal veins
Quaternary sediments
High grade Metamorphic rocks
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Thorium mineralisation
Source for Th and REE
Discovery in the year 1909 from beach sands from
Manavalakurichi, Tamil Nadu.
Occurs in placer sands along with ilmenite, rutile,
leucoxene, garnet, zircon & sillimanite.
Monazite-bearing placer sands found along the coast-line
and also inland in aeolian and riverine environments.
Recovered as by-product at:
Chavara, Kerala
Manavalakurichi, Tamil Nadu
Chattarpur, Odisha
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Monazite
Grade in different environments
Beach sands
: upto 1%
(up to 5% in some places in Kerala,
Tamil Nadu)
Teri Sands Tamil Nadu :Upto 0.10%
Siri River, Chhattisgarh: Upto 0.8% (Riverine Placer)
ThO2
up to 9-10% (av.)
U3O8
0.3%
REO
60%
P2O5
27%
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Heavy Mineral
Ilmenite
520.38
Rutile
29.11
Monazite
10.70
Zircon
32.28
Garnet
154.26
Sillimanite
195.85
Total
942.58
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Berm-line, Pudukottai, TN
Geophysical
deposits.
techniques
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for
surveying
deeper
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Thanks
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