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  1. (mineralogy) Any of several brownish-black forms of uranium dioxide, UO2, (especially pitchblende) that is the chief ore of uranium; it is isomorphous with thorianite.
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The data points bracket the stability field boundary between uraninite and uranyl-hydroxide complexes.
A comprehensive discussion of the mineralogy and occurrence of uraninite has been given by Frondel, to which the reader is strongly referred.
The present note relates to the behaviour of uranium minerals such as uraninite, curite, and uranophane in high-tension separators.
The skarn hosts large phlogopite, diopside, apatite crystals and uraninite crystals.
Chlorite, predominantly magnesium chlorite, is the principal gangue, and its intimate association with the uraninite indicates that the two minerals formed together.
Early investigators recognized bitumen as having a strong spatial relationship with gold, uraninite and pyrite.

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