Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
RESUMO
The uranific occurrence of Stio Bravo, Pocinhos, Paraba State, Brazil, is located at
50 km northwest of Campina Grande, Paraba State. Previously, the radiometric values
of the region found above the background radiation were considered punctual and
restricted to an outcrop. Taking into account the necessity of detailing of such anomaly,
the studies carried out in this work focused at recognizing the geology and the
radiometry associated, as well as the type of rock mineralization, the radionuclides, their
respective activities and chemical element mass fractions in the rock. For this,
radiogeologic profiles were carried out perpendicularly to the regional structures and
measurements were performed along the profile. Rock samples were collected in the
mineralized outcrops found in the profile center and the river margin. The mineralized
rock is a granitoid rock with texture varying from gross to very gross and formed by
potassic feldspate (orthoclase), plagioclase and several gaps. The petrographic
description by means of thin section revealed as essential minerals the plagioclase
(albite-oligoclase) and perthitic orthoclase, while the accessories were biotite, included
in the huge altered plagioclase crystals, sericite, zircon, rare opaque minerals (hematite)
and biotite pseudomorphs. There were some vacuoles derived from the quartz leaching
(which is absent). The silica leaching, the albitization, the hematization and the uranium
enrichment are evidences of hydrothermal metasomatism phenomenon, responsible for
the granite alteration. By using high resolution gamma ray spectrometry by means of a
germanium detector, the activity concentration of radionuclides in the granitoid rock
were 19,2 kBq kg-1 0,3 kBq kg-1 for 238U, 20,00 kBq kg-1 0,10 kBq kg-1 for 226Ra,
2,02 kBq kg-1 0,04 kBq kg-1 for 232Th and 0,40 kBq kg-1 0,08 kBq kg-1 for 40K. The
mineralization type was epigenetic with metasomatic origin, in which the uranium is
associated to the albitization of host rock (granite).
238
Keywords: granite, metasomatism, U, gamma spectrometry, natural
radioactivity
de um cintilmetro SAPHYMO
MATERIAIS E MTODOS SRAT/SPP-2 NF, levado na altura do
brao estendido. Posteriormente,
As etapas de desenvolvimento realizaram-se trs sees medidas
do trabalho em Pocinhos envolveram o perpendicularmente trincheira
reconhecimento de campo para existente, sendo uma localizada em sua
verificao da geologia local, o levanta- poro mediana e as outras duas nas
mento radiomtrico e coleta de amostras extremidades, distando aproximada-
e as anlises mineralgicas e radio- mente 30 metros a partir da seo
mtricas de laboratrio. central da trincheira. Sua orientao
Na regio do afloramento, perfis 130Az, transversal s estruturas
a p transversais direo das estruturas regionais e com as seguintes
(80 Az) foram realizados com auxlio
Estudos Geologicos v. 22(2) 2012 ISSN 1980-8208
www.ufpe.br/estudosgeologicos 96
OCORRNCIA DE URNIO EM POCINHOS, PARABA...
Figura 3 Croqui em planta e em perfil com o esboo geolgico da ocorrncia de Stio Bravo,
Pocinhos, Estado da Paraba. Tambm apresentado o perfil radiomtrico da seco realizado
no local.
A B