Uranium districts in South Greenland

Abstract

From the preliminary evaluation of the reconnaissance exploration results in 1979, two areas were outlined as having some potential for uranium mineralisation (Armour-Brown et al., 1979). Further evaluation of the data extended the northem of these two areas to include the area which lies just south of the Igaliko Fjord (Vatnaverfi area, fig. 18). In addition the northem part of the Igaliko nepheline syenite complex, the Motzfeldt centre, was shown to be more interesting as aresult of the evaluation of gamma-spectrometer results and the identification of uraniferous pyrochlore from some ofthe rock samples. Some smaller anomalous areas in the Kobberminebugt area north-east of Nunarssuit, and Kap Farvel region, particularly in areas of metasedimentary rocks, were identified by reconnaissance geochemistry.