Geological Modeling for Uranium Reservoir Heterogeneity

This is an open access book. Taking sandstone-type uranium deposits in Zhiluo Formation in Ordos Basin (the largest uranium-producing basin in China) as the research target, this book selects three typical outcrop areas according to different provenance systems, uranium reservoir types and uranium mineralization diversities on the basis of the restoration and reconstruction of the large-scale provenance-sedimentary lobes of uranium reservoir sandbodies in the whole basin, it emphatically constructs the geological models of sedimentary, diagenetic and metallogenic heterogeneity of four kinds of uranium reservoir sandbodies in braided river deltas and incised valleys. It then thoroughly analyzes the restriction of heterogeneity of the physical structure and the material composition of uranium reservoir on uranium mineralization. The idea and experience of outcrop geological modeling are extended to underground work, so that the heterogeneous geological modeling of typical uranium deposits is selected and constructed, in order to provide a sedimentological basis for revealing metallogenic mechanism, enhancing recovery and further developing digital modeling and numerical simulation. This monograph is suitable for both graduate students, researchers and front-line industrial engineers who are engaged in sedimentary basin analysis and energy & mineral research.