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H. Lindroos and J. A. T. Smellie
A stratabound uranium occurrence within middle Precambrian ignimbrites at Duobblon, northern Sweden (in A special issue devoted to mineral deposits in Fennoscandia)
Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists (August 1979), 74(5):1118-1130

Abstract:
The Duobblon occurrence is a stratabound uranium mineralization within rhyolitic ignimbrites of middle Precambrian age. The ignimbrites and an underlying basal breccia lie unconformably on a deeply weathered granite basement of about 1,790 m.y., and are overlain by thick fluviatile deposits of red-bed-type conglomerates and sandstones which are in turn capped by acid to intermediate terrestrial volcanics. The ignimbrite unit is about 60 m thick and 4 to 5 km of strike length is known. The richest uranium concentrations, on an average 200 to 300 ppm U (over 50 cms of drill core), occur as several 1- to 25-m-thick and about 1,000-m-long horizons within lithophysae-bearing parts of the ignimbrite unit. The uranium, mostly present in the groundmass, has undergone intrastratal leaching and redistribution and there is a tendency for enrichment downdip as well as along lithological boundaries. The location of enrichment areas may have been guided by the proximity of interbedded and overlying conglomerates acting as physicochemical traps. The descending transporting solutions have been oxidizing in character and the uranium has been precipitated under favorable conditions as fine granular pitchblende and complex uranotitanates, within the chlorite-sericite components of the groundmass.The highest U enrichments are generally associated with high Pb, V, and Mo, but the correlation is poor in detail. The exploration methods employed are briefly described.

Index Terms/Descriptors:
diagenesis; Duobblon; economic geology; Europe; exploration; Fennoscandia; geochemistry; hydrothermal alteration; hydrothermal processes; igneous rocks; ignimbrite; major elements; metal ores; metasomatism; middle Precambrian; mineral deposits, genesis; ore deposits; petrography; Precambrian; processes; pyroclastics; Scandinavia; stratabound deposits; Sweden; syngenesis; trace elements; uranium ores; volcanic rocks; Western Europe

Latitude & Longitude:
N65°30'00" - N65°45'00" and E17°50'00" - E18°05'00" (Search for maps and images at Alexandria Digital Library)

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