Chemical Speciations of Uranium of a Sandstone Uranium Deposit and their Effects to In Situ Leaching, Northwest China

Liang Chen; Yong Feng Li; Kai Xuan Tan; Yang Hu; Yan Shi Xie; Wei Huang; Zheng Qing Wang

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.953-954.597

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Chemical Speciations of Uranium of a Sandstone Uranium Deposit and their Effects to In Situ Leaching, Northwest China

Abstract:

The chemical speciations of uranium of a sandstone uranium deposit in the Yili Basin were quantitative analyzed using the method of sequential chemical extraction, and the implications of which for in-situ leaching of uranium were discussed. The proportion of chemical speciations of uranium shows that the bound to carbonates>the bound to Fe-Mn oxides>the exchangeable>the residual>the bound to sulfide-organic matter speciation, which is beneficial to cost reduction on in-situ leaching of uranium and environmental protection. The active uranium includes 4 chemical speciations except for the residual speciation is principal, which suggests that the leaching rate of uranium of the sandstone uranium deposit is high. The inert uranium is the residual speciation, with low proportion. The sample with high proportion of active uranium is of high grade, and vice versa, which indicates that the ratio of total uranium extracted/reserves should be relatively high. Hence, based on the chemical speciations of uranium, the sandstone uranium deposit can be exploited suitably using the technique of in-situ leaching with dilute sulfuric acid, integrated considering that cost control of in-situ leaching of uranium, environmental protection, leaching rate of uranium and the ratio of total uranium extracted/reserves of uranium.