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As a result of integrating geological, mineralogical, and geochemical data on the unique Schlema–Alberoda five-element uranium deposit situated in Federal Republic of Germany and explored in detail down to a depth of 2 km, it has been shown that its formation for more than 100 Ma has been caused by combination of internal and external factors. The latter comprise favorable metallogenic specialization of the region, injection of intrusive bodies bearing the necessary stock of energy, and periodic pulses of tectonic reactivation. The internal factors of self-development involve evolutionary processes, which occur in host rocks at the consecutive stages of prograde and retrograde metamorphism giving rise to alteration of rocks in consistence with physical and chemical laws at variable temperature and degree of system opening.
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Original Russian Text © G.B. Naumov, B.P. Vlasov, V.N. Golubev, O.F. Mironova, 2017, published in Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii, 2017, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 3–16.
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Naumov, G.B., Vlasov, B.P., Golubev, V.N. et al. The Schlema–Alberoda five-element uranium deposit, Germany: An example of self-organizing hydrothermal system. Geol. Ore Deposits 59, 1–13 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701517010056
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