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Uranium occurrences in the Cree Lake Zone, Saskatchewan, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

G. R. Parslow  and
D. J. Thomas
G. R. Parslow
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S OA2
D. J. Thomas
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S OA2
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Abstract

Over 100 samples of ‘pegmatite’ and associated host rocks from the Cree Lake Zone of northern Saskatchewan have been studied. The degree of U and Th enrichment of the pegmatites appears to depend on the parent material of the anatectic melts produced during the Hudsonian thermotectonic event. Evidence for Archaean granulite-facies depletion of U and Th is inconclusive; however, important enrichment of U and Th in the basal Aphebian is associated with metamorphosed black shales and possibly evaporates.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 46 , Issue 339 , June 1982 , pp. 163 - 171
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1982

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