WordNet
n. any ore from which uranium can be extracted
Wikipedia
Uranium ore deposits are economically recoverable concentrations of uranium within the Earth's crust. Uranium is one of the more common elements in the Earth's crust, being 40 times more common than silver and 500 times more common than gold. It can be found almost everywhere in rock, soil, rivers, and oceans. The challenge is to find those areas where the concentrations are adequate to form an economically viable deposit.
Globally, the distribution of uranium ore deposits is widespread on all continents, with the largest deposits found in Australia, Kazakhstan, and Canada. To date, high-grade deposits are only found in the Athabasca Basin region of Canada.
Uranium deposits are generally classified based on host rocks, structural setting, and mineralogy of the deposit. The most widely used classification scheme was developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and subdivides deposits into 15 categories. __TOC__
Usage examples of "uranium ore".
There had been something in the canyon very recently, he saw, something that had dug some narrow trenches across what he presumed to be the deposit of uranium ore.
But some isotopes of uranium and thorium have little beta, with some alpha and gamma, so Baxter concluded we had powdered uranium ore.
With that report, with competent people, uranium ore, and a good deal less money than it cost us, a nation ought to be able to develop a bomb in a good deal less time than it took us.
We have been looking further in the Morrcott Cleft, and the samples Reed brought in were uranium ore, of quite exceptional richness.
If we bring it close to the uranium ore, which is emitting helium nuclei in a spontaneous.
If we drop the uranium ore into a heavy lead canister, the count rate declines substantially.
It would also be proof positive that no uranium ore existed there, so it was not really cheating.
From a thousand tons of uranium ore, all you get is a block the size of a cigar box.
Opencut mining should be possible and, from the way this engineer talks, the uranium ore soi,inds like it is rich enough to run a reactor without any refining.