the meaning of loveringite

WELL I've been thinking about this loveringite, and it seems to me that if Mr Blood is right and the U is in the loveringite, we have a big problem, and that is one of metallurgy. Remember, it is minerals like loveringite that have been looked at for synthetic storage of U wastes by people like Ted Ringwood (famed for 'synrock'). The stuff is very tough, ie does not readily break down in nature. I see this as meaning that getting U OUT will be time consuming, and costly. The upside, however, is that you might readily make a nice concentrate of the stuff, and this brings me to my secoond thought, that is, why the stream sediment results have been so good.

I think we must be looking at a resistate mineral phenomenon, very much like tin and zircon. If everything else is breaking down during weathering, but loveringite is surviving, you end up with natural concentrates of loveringite at surface, and they survive in streams very well too. This does raise the possibility that the loveringite numbers in the streams are/were good because a lot of loveringite, weathering over the ages, is ending up there....ie it may not be a direct indicator that there are large AMOUNTS of loveringite at the source.