FEATURES AND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTIDNS OF CHINA'S URANIUM MINING

This paper describes some features of uranium mining such as. small scale, changeable shilpe,discontinuity, nonhomogeneous mineralization, radioactivety and so on; rewiews lhe grogress process of miningmethods; looks forward to the development future of uranium mining; points out that the solution mining combining with concentration and nletallurgy, in comparason with conventional mining, has many advanlages suchas a little processes,saving investment, lower production cost, maxmurn recovery, and favorable to environmental protection.'