Radon in uranium exploration: case studies
Legend
⚒ Led to discovery of important uranium reserves
★ Gave anomalies related to known uranium deposits
✝ Show promise as exploration methods
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Radon discoveries at Patterson Lake South in Athabasca
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Radon anomaly (1972) in Midwest Lake over orebody
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Athabasca: Radon anomaly over McClean Lake North
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Thelon: Radon-Radium anomalies in lakes at Kiggavik
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Wintertime surveys:
snow cover and frozen lakes
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Reconnaissance drainage surveys:
Radon, Radium respond to Bancroft deposits
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Soil and snow anomaly over Faraday Mine, Bancroft
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Radon/Thoron anomaly through 18 meters of Karoo Sandstone in Madagascar
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Southeast Texas: Radium in well water gives closely defined targets
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Grants, New Mexico: Radon determinations in air in drill holes can reduce the cost of drilling
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Radon exploration in almost total outcrop
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Dry stream sediments
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Vegetation
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Dry areas: radon in drainage winds
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Radon and radium in lake-bottom waters and sediments for drill targets
Uranium anomalies in organic sediments and in the A‑horizon of soil might be false if not accompanied by high radium
Radon/thoron ratios add important refinement
Transport distance in glacial boulder trains
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Other commodities and applications
Radon/thoron ratios in OIL AND GAS exploration
Radon, thoron and radium in exploration for rare earths
Radon and thoron in groundwater exploration
Radon Geochemistry in Evaluation of NAPL Contamination
Earthquake prediction
Teaching and research
Other:
geothermal, faults, helium etc.
details later
Our radon instruments and other applications.
Health, safety and environment, HSE or EHS
General principles
Principles of radon geochemistry
Some notes on radon geochemistry
More than pathfinders,
radium and radon are direct indicators of uranium
Radon does not come out of solid rock
but fractures are useful
Radon migration from depth:
does it happen? how?
Our radon anomalies are repeatable