Is there irony in the fact that this barren Utah desert, where the story takes place, holds the promise of great wealth
from its uranium deposits?
Not exact matches
In discussing the regional geology (p. 807) and age (p. 811) of the Koongarra
uranium deposits, Snelling 2 describes their geological history in fairly technical terms, however, to avoid the charge we lay against the creationists, of taking quotations out of context, I will quote Snelling 2 verbatim
from the paper (p. 807):
Depending on shifting cave conditions and varying amounts of
uranium drainage
from mineral
deposits, this method can over - or underestimate when rock art was created, the scientists argued.
Uranium, the radioactive element that fuels nuclear power plants and occurs naturally in the Earth's crust, is typically mined
from large sandstone
deposits deep underground.
Scientists sampled a 650 - foot deep sediment core
from roll - front
uranium deposits at an unmined site at Wyoming's Smith Ranch Highlands.
Such
uranium deposits in Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan comprise the bulk of the world's known supply — although
uranium is a ubiquitous atom that can even be derived
from seawater.
According to the complaint and his online biography, Snelling obtained a doctoral degree in geology
from the University of Sydney in 1982 and began his career by studying the Koongarra
uranium deposit in Australia's Northern Territory.
Russian UET resources with 311,000 tonnes of
uranium, as well as the remaining Russia «excess» HEU with 108,000 tonnes of
uranium, could continue to offset demand for primary
uranium from unmined ore
deposits, and could reduce the likelihood that new mines such as those proposed near Church Rock and Crownpoint in New Mexico would be mined in the future.
First, Russia was unable to increase its domestic
uranium production to meet its domestic reactor needs as Russia has been unable to increase production
from either its primary
uranium ore
deposits at Krasnokamensk in the Chita Region (see www.sric.org/mining/docs/Chitafin.php), or new
deposits.