Uraninite, also known as pitchblende, is a radioactive, uranium-rich mineral and ore with a chemical composition that is largely UO2 but because of oxidation...

naturally formed in supernova explosions. The primary uranium ore mineral is uraninite (UO2) (previously known as pitchblende). A range of other uranium minerals...

Cleveite is an impure radioactive variety of uraninite containing uranium, found in Norway. It has the composition UO2 with about 10% of the uranium substituted...

is now not regarded as a separate mineral species, but as a variety of uraninite. In 1903, large reserves of helium were found in natural gas fields in...

and in hydrothermal vein type deposits. It occurs in association with uraninite, thorite, pyrite, marcasite, roscoelite, clay minerals and amorphous organic...

fractures, joints, and minor faults within the Katanga synclinorium. Uraninite mineralization occurred 630 Ma ago, when uraniferous solutions percolated...

1898 from ore mined at Jáchymov. They extracted the radium compound from uraninite and published the discovery at the French Academy of Sciences five days...

asbestiform serpentine) Citrine (yellow variety of quartz) Cleveite (variety of uraninite) Clinochrysotile (polytype of chrysotile) Coltan (short for minerals of...

Yellowcake is hazardous when inhaled. Uranium ore deposits Uranium mining Uraninite, an ore that is mostly uranium dioxide (UO2) Yellowcake forgery, fraudulently...

ThO2. It was originally described by Ananda Coomaraswamy in 1904 as uraninite, but recognized as a new species by Wyndham R. Dunstan. It was so named...