MEGWA August 2023 Meeting

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MEGWA August 2023 Meeting


MEGWA August 2023 Meeting

Namibia’s world-class uranium province: new insights to an old paradigm

Major uranium deposits are hosted within the Damara orogen close to the coastal town of Swakopmunf, Namibia. This uranium province has been incredibly productive over the last four decades. There are two principal types of uranium mineralisation. This talk focusses on the leucogranite (alaskite) hosted mineralisation (e.g. Rössing, Husab, Omahola, Etango). The other type is hosted within sediments of paleochannels (e.g. Langer Heinrich, Tumas). The standard model for the mineralisation is based on a specific uranium rich melt that originated from partial melting under granulite facies conditions. This talk expands the previous ideas and explores the influence of magmatic fluids in forming uranium mineralisation.


Speaker

Alex Otto, Chief Geologist, Deep Yellow Limited


Cost

FREE


Zoom meeting details

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88063579174?pwd=U0VDejJibzZub3dNczJKTmY0Y0xXQT09
Passcode: 524771


  • Date and time

    16 August 2023
    5:30PM Onwards

  • Location

    The Celtic Club
    48 Ord Street, West Perth