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Uraninite from
Bangombé, Léboumbi-Leyou Department, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon


Locality type:Occurrence
Classification
Species:Uraninite
Formula:UO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uraninite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bangombé, Léboumbi-Leyou Department, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:175473
Long-form Identifier:1:3:175473:5
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Uraninite
11.3km (7.0 miles) ⓘOklobondo Mine (Okélobondo Mine), Léboumbi-Leyou Department, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
13.1km (8.1 miles) ⓘBoyindzi Mine, Léboumbi-Leyou Department, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
26.7km (16.6 miles) ⓘMounana Mine, Mounana, Léboumbi-Leyou Department, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
28.3km (17.6 miles) ⓘOklo Mine, Léboumbi-Leyou Department, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
References
Lena Z. Evins, Keld A. Jensen, Rodney C. Ewing, Uraninite recrystallization and Pb loss in the Oklo and Bangombé natural fission reactors, Gabon, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 69, Issue 6, 15 March 2005, Pages 1589-1606, ISSN 0016-7037, 10.1016/j.gca.2004.07.013.
Eberly, P., Janeczek, J., & Ewing, R. (1994). Precipitation of uraninite in chlorite-bearing veins of the hydrothermal alteration zone (argile de pile) of the natural nuclear reactor at Bangombe, Republic of Gabon. In MRS Proceedings (Vol. 353, p. 1195). Cambridge University Press.
Janeczek, Janusz, Ewing, Rodney (1996) Phosphatian coffinite with rare earth elements and Ce-rich françoisite-(Nd) from sandstone beneath a natural fission reactor at Bangombé, Gabon. Mineralogical Magazine, 60 (401) 665-669 doi:10.1180/minmag.1996.060.401.14
Janusz Janeczek (1999) Mineralogy and geochemistry of natural fission reactors in Gabon. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, MSA, v. 38, p. 321-392
Alstrup Jensen, Keld, Ewing, Rodney C. (2001) The Okélobondo natural fission reactor, southeast Gabon: Geology, mineralogy, and retardation of nuclear-reaction products. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113 (1) 32-62 doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<0032:tolnfr>2.0.co;2
Jensen, K. A.; Palenik, C. S.; Ewing, Rodney C. (2002) U6+ phases in the weathering zone of the Bangombé U-deposit: observed and predicted mineralogy. Radiochimica Acta, 90 (9-11). 761-769 doi:10.1524/ract.2002.90.9-11_2002.761
Utsunomiya, S., Deditius, A. P., Pointeau, V., & Ewing, R. C. (2008). Coffinite and ningyoite from the natural nuclear reactor at Bangombe, Gabon. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72(12suppl. 1), A968.
 
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