use of radioactivity in mining

use of radioactivity in mining

Occupational Radiation Protection in the Mining and

The main purpose of this Safety Guide is to provide practical guidance on meeting the requirements of the Basic Safety Standards as they relate to the radiation protection of workers in the mining and processing of raw

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Nuclear techniques in mineral exploration, extraction, and

In uranium mining, the radioactivity of the rock is used to separate ore and waste rock and to determine the grade of the ore. In coal mining, it is important to know the thickness of the coal

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Alpha radiation from polymetallic nodules and potential health

2023年5月17日  In search for critical elements, polymetallic nodules at the deep abyssal seafloor are targeted for mining operations. Nodules efficiently scavenge and retain several naturally

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Mining Radioactivity SpringerLink

2022年10月8日  The mining radioactivity mainly falls into radioactivity of uranium (thorium) mines, associated radioactive and non-uranium mineral resources. Uranium (thorium) mines

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An Assessment of Radiological Hazards from Gold Mine Tailings in

2016年1月18日  The natural radioactivity levels of 238 U, 232 Th and 40 K have been measured in 56 soil samples from the gold mine tailings and 10 soil samples from the control

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Improved and new uses of natural radioactivity in mineral

1997年1月1日  Improved and new uses of natural radioactivity in mineral exploration and processing. R. J. de Meijer; Kerfysisch Versneller Instituut, Environmental Radioactivity

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Natural occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) from mining sites

2022年8月1日  Solid mineral mining activities have contributed to the distribution and uptake of radionuclides. This has increased the active concentration of naturally occurring radioactive

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Case studies of radioactivity of drilling mud for in situ leaching ...

2022年10月1日  A drilling mud radioactivity estimation model for ISL mining was established based on the characteristics of the ISL drilling process. using this model, the radioactivity

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The importance of radioactivity in geoscience and mining

1995年7月1日  Almost simultaneously with Roentgen rays, natural radioactivity was discovered. Its investigation led to important fundamentals of the geosciences: petrophysics, terrestrial heat flow, isotope geology, and absolute geological chronology. In applied geophysics and geology, exploration of radioactive ores and of tectonic faults, and radiometric well loggings, are used.

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Evaluation of the natural radioactivity in food and soil around

2021年6月21日  To evaluate the radiological risk to human health associated with the ingestion of radionuclides in foods, some different plant foods cultivated in the mining area were collected and analyzed. Results showed that local foods contained higher 210Pb (8.1–150 Bq/kg) and 228Ra (0.3–4.2 Bq/kg) than the worldwide reference values. The annual committed effective

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Uranium: Its Uses and Hazards - Institute for Energy and

In the past decade, alternative techniques such in-situ leach mining, in which solutions are injected into underground deposits to dissolve uranium, have become more widely used. Most mines in the U.S. have shut down and imports account for about three-fourths of the roughly 16 metric tons of refined uranium used domestically each year — Canada being the largest

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Management of wastes from uranium mines and mills

in mining and milling does have an environmental impact, owing to the long half-lives and the ready availability of the toxic radionuchdes Ra-226 and Rn-222. Mining The waste rocks produced in mining, though not containing radioactivity of any significance, need control. Those which are not used for backfill of mines are often

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Ecological and radiological hazards due to natural radioactivity

2019年3月27日  Ecological and radiological hazards due to natural radioactivity and heavy metals in soils of some selected mining sites in Nigeria March 2019 Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 26(5):1-11

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Assessment of Radiological Hazards in the Phosphate Mining

2020年12月1日  This present work studied the radioactivity of a set of soil samples of phosphates tailings collected from a mining site in Kpogamé with a view to assessing the radiological hazards.

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(PDF) Radioecological Impacts of tin mining - ResearchGate

2015年6月3日  For example, samples from dumped tailing and mining sites in northcentral states have shown very high radioactivity concentrations of up to 27,240 ( 238 U), 42,480 ( 232 Th), and 670 Bq kg -1 ( 40 ...

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Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technology in

2024年5月19日  In the late nineteenth century, ground breaking discoveries emerged, including Roentgen's X-rays, Henri Becquerel's radioactivity, and Marie and Pierre Curie's identification of radium and polonium. In 1934, Irene Curie and Frederic Joliot achieved a milestone by discovering artificial radioactivity.

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Managing naturally occuring radioactive material (NORM) in mining

relevant exploration, mining and mineral processing operations. 1.2. Scope This guideline applies to all exploration, mining and mineral processing operations in Western Aus-tralia that use or handle naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) and come within the scope of Part 16 of the Mines Safety and Inspection Regulations 1995 ([1]). 1.3.

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Radionuclides and Radiation Exposure in Mine Sites

The mining of minerals is the basis of a large part of the world economy, and provides the raw materials for most of the infrastructures and tools that we use in everyday life. These include base metals, fuel minerals, rare earth elements, and precious metals that are essential to the construction of bridges, trains, cars, airplanes, computers, cell phones, kitchen and office

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Case studies of radioactivity of drilling mud for in situ leaching ...

2022年10月1日  A radioactivity estimation model was established for scenario analysis. Exemption management screening lines of waste drilling mud, which can be used to classify and treat the drilling project according to the deposit's grade and conditions, were proposed for in situ leaching drilling projects.

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Radioactivity in staple foodstuffs and concomitant dose to the ...

2021年1月1日  While previous studies of natural radioactivity in key Nigerian foodstuffs do exist, these have typically originated from mining areas only (Arogunjo et al., 2009; Jibiri et al., 2007); present studies aim to overcome this deficit of data obtained at

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Natural occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) from mining

2022年8月1日  1. Introduction. Mining is the process that deals with the extraction of geological minerals and other geological materials of economic value from their natural deposits in the earth crust (Mactaggart et al., 2018).Researchers has over the years concluded that mining is a destructive venture due to the effects of mining operations on the environment, and its media,

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The importance of radioactivity in geoscience and mining

century 21. However mining of radioactive ores - at least for use of their radioactivity - only began in this century. During the 19th century uranium ores were only a by-product of mining silver, lead, zinc, bismuth, cobalt and n~kel, and they were used for production of colours.

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(PDF) Radioactivity in Surface Soils Around the Proposed Sites

2011年1月1日  PDF Radioactivity measurements were carried out around Maumba and Nguluku villages, two of the proposed sites for tita-nium mining in the coastal area... Find, read and cite all the research ...

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Mining treatment effects on natural radioactivity and radiological ...

Activities of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K contained in phosphate ores and granular fertilizer samples were determined using two different gamma-ray spectrometry detectors. The influence of treatment processes on the radioactivity in phosphates mine in each mining step in the dry and wet process were evaluated. Total absorbed dose rates in air and external annual effective

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Determination of natural radioactivity levels and radiological

2020年11月1日  The use of crude methods of mining and mineral processing and the apparent ignorance of the hazards involved have been linked to some health and environmental consequences. Hence, this study focuses on the assessment of radioactivity levels in rock, soil and sediment samples as well as the radiological hazards of the artisanal mining in Anka.

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Radioactivity and its applications PPT - SlideShare

2017年5月27日  Radioactivity and its applications - Download as a PDF or view online for free. ... , because they rely on mining limited reserves of uranium. They're not zero-carbon either, because it takes a lot of energy to mine that uranium. Nuclear plants are expensive and take many years to construct ...

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Statistical assessment of natural radioactivity, radon activity, and ...

2024年7月30日  Therefore, purpose of the present study is to determine the natural radioactivity levels, radon activity concentration, radon exhalation rates (mass and area exhalation) in soils of mining areas within Atiwa West of Eastern region, Ghana and to assess the health hazards due to radioactivity among the populace of the study area.

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Uses Of Radiation NRC.gov

2022年5月11日  As a result, where we now use chlorine — a chemical that is toxic and difficult-to-handle — we may someday use radiation to disinfect our drinking water and kill the germs in our sewage. In fact, ultraviolet light (a form of radiation) is already used to disinfect drinking water in some homes.

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