Need for comprehensive, rapid exploration for atomic minerals & value-added explorationminingprocessing of heavy mineral sands

  • 24/08/2008

  • Current Science

Atomic minerals (uraninite, pitchblende, coffinite, columbite-tantalite, zircon, monazite, xenotime, etc.), containing naturally occurring radio-elements of U and Th, and their geochemically coherent elements like Nb