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Uranium-ore giants

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Toxic heavy metals can accumulate in Earth's near surface to form ore deposits. Experimental and direct measurements of ore fluids reveal the efficient mobilization and deposition of uranium, implying potentially rapid formation of economic-grade ore.

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Figure 1: Uranium mine at McClean Lake, Athabasca Basin, Canada.

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  1. Enikő Bali is in the Department of Experimental and Applied Mineralogy, Georg-August-University, Göttingen 37077, Germany,

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Bali, E. Uranium-ore giants. Nature Geosci 5, 96–97 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1386

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