Genesis of secondary uranium minerals associated with jasperoid veins, El Erediya area, Eastern Desert, Egypt

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 933-944

  Abd El Naby, Hamdy H ^a,b  

^a NUCLEAR MATERIALS AUTHORITY   (Egypt)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Egypt; El Erediya; Kasolite; Uranium niobate; Uranophane; Uranpyrochlore

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; SECONDARY MINERAL; URANIUM;

AFRICA; EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 56049111092     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-007-0171-1     Document Type: Article

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