Megaliths and uranium mines

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-02 02:33

Continuation of the topic raised in the article UNDERGROUND LEACHING OF METALS AND MEGALITES AS WASTE OF PASTE THICKNESS OF ROCKS.

And my thanks wakeuphuman for help in preparing this material. Is there any other evidence that the remnants, pillars are masses from the thickening of waste during the ancient mining of metals by borehole underground leaching? Except for possible caves below them? It turns out that some of these remnants are located in uranium deposits.

Abandoned uranium mines in Chukotka. The mine shaft goes right under the outliers!

Remains are located on some hills. Perhaps there are caves inside them and there is still some uranium left. A tip for geologists. Or do they know about this relationship?

Kekuras or pillars of weathering as geology calls them here

Of course, the remnants are not found on all hills, and there is something left for man. The barracks of the camp mine. The dumps from the underground mine, produced by the prisoners, are visible.

Height map. Pay attention to how many places with outliers are located there!

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Old photo of CHAUNLAG - uranium mine

Mine 62 km. (development) Chaunlag LRP Qualitative surveys of former uranium objects of Chaunlag (Chukotka, 70 km northeast of Pevek):

The Chaunskiy ITL (Chaunlag, ITL Office No. 14) of the Dalstroy GULAG functioned from August 1951 to April 1953. The maximum number of prisoners who worked there at the same time reached 11,000. Chaunlag was founded to develop a uranium deposit discovered in 1947.

The first uranium in the USSR began to be mined back in the 1920s. in Tajikistan. The first industrial reactor near Chelyabinsk was launched in 1948. The first atomic explosion in Kazakhstan was made in 1949. And here, east of Pevek, development began only in 1950. Obviously, in fact, Pevek uranium could not have been a raw material for the first Kurchatov tests. Rather, for the first Soviet serial atomic warheads, which began to be produced in 1951.

Mine 62 km. OLP Chaunlag. Kekura.

Outskirts of the "Vostochny" mine. In the background, the mountain looks like a giant waste heap. Perhaps they used different technologies, like we do now?

View from a helicopter to the Vostochny mine.

Kekura

It is very likely that these modern dumps are located on the site of giant ancient

OLP "Vostochny". Ruined barracks against the background of kekur and dumps. In the early 1950s. The volumes of uranium mining in Dalstroy were consistently growing. For 1948-1955. Dalstroy produced about 150 tons of uranium in concentrate. But the cost of local uranium was quite high, constantly exceeding the planned one. In 1954, the cost of 1 kg of uranium concentrate at Dalstroy was 3,774 rubles. with a planned 3057 rubles. The average content in the North was 0.1 percent. This is about a ton of ore - a kilogram of uranium. In those years, poor ores were also used. But even then, such deposits were called small, and now it is not even considered a deposit. So, ore occurrence. And large deposits were in Romania, ours discovered, and from there they brought a lot of uranium, then from Germany. In connection with the mass amnesty of prisoners, work began to gradually curtail. During 1956, the last uranium mining facilities of Dalstroy in Chukotka were liquidated. A source

More photos of these places:

Dumps of breed among the kekurs. It means that uranium was mined here too, right below them.

And here even some sense can be traced in their location.

Such a place where remnants coexist with uranium mines is not the only one.

Kolyma. Uranium mine "Butugychag"

Kolyma. Abandoned uranium mine. Again outliers, megaliths. There is definitely a connection with uranium mining. Not with modern prey. And with the past, more ambitious. We are mining in the old poor mines after someone else. We finish eating the leftovers.

Remnant and modern dumps

From the moment of its organization in 1937, the Butugychag mine was part of the YuGPU - the Southern Mining Administration and at first was a tin mine. in February 1948, at the Butugychag mine, a camp department No. 4 of a special camp No. 5 - Berlaga "Coastal Camp" was organized. At the same time, uranium ore was mined here. In this regard, a plant No. 1 was organized on the basis of a uranium deposit. A hydrometallurgical plant with a capacity of 100 tons of uranium ore per day began to be built at Butugychag. On January 1, 1952, the number of employees in the First Directorate of Dalstroy increased to 14,790 people. This was the maximum number of people employed in construction and mining operations in this department. Then the decline in uranium ore mining also began and by the beginning of 1953 there were only 6,130 people in it. In 1954, the staffing of the main enterprises of the First Directorate of Dalstroy fell even more and amounted to only 840 people at Butugychag.

Don't you think that there are more ancient dumps in the background?

The slopes of these hills are composed of such a small barrow. Well, why not waste rock heaps? Erosion breaks down rocks into sand and dust, not into fine and not very stone.

If you do not inform that this is supposedly natural, then it will quite pass for mounds of waste rock.

Layered outliers in the background

In conclusion, I would like to add information about borehole in-situ leaching (ISL): The usual way of uranium mining is to extract ore from the bowels, crush it and process it to obtain the desired metals. In the SPV technology, which is also known as solution mining, the rock remains in place, wells are pierced across the field, through which fluids are then pumped to leach metal from the ore. In global practice, solutions based on acids and alkalis are used in the SPW process; however, in Russia, as well as in Australia, Canada and Kazakhstan, the latter are not used, preferring sulfuric acid H2SO4. The production of radioactive metal in our country is carried out by the traditional mine method and the modern method of borehole in-situ leaching (SPL). The latter already accounts for more than 30% of the total production volume. Pumps play a major role in the in-situ leaching process. They are used already at the very first stage - pumping out groundwater, into which an acidic reagent and an oxidizing component based on hydrogen peroxide or oxygen are then added. Then, with the help of downhole equipment, the solution is pumped into the geotechnical field. The uranium-enriched liquid enters the production wells, from where it is sent again with the help of pumps to the processing unit, where, in the process of sorption, uranium is deposited on an ion-exchange resin. Then the metal is separated chemically, the suspension is dewatered and dried to obtain the final product. The process solution is again saturated with oxygen (if necessary, with sulfuric acid) and returned to the cycle.

And one more example, but from a different place. Notice the details of this polystratus tree fossil photo:

It is possible that the waste rock was poured into the forest using the SPV technology (if we talk about underground leaching of metals). And it has nothing to do with the flood. Sorry, I don't know the place.