Exploration

According to wikipedia encyclopedia, Uranium is a silvery metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. Uranium has the highest atomic weight of the naturally occurring elements and is approximately 70% more dense than lead and is weakly radioactive. It occurs naturally in low concentrations (a few parts per million) in soil, rock and water, and is commercially extracted from uranium-bearing minerals. 

Uranium is of great importance as a nuclear fuel and is used to fuel nuclear power reactors to generate electricity.  One pound of completely fissioned uranium has the fuel value of over 1500 tons of coal.  Because of being an extremely dense metal it is the future and an abundant source of clean burning concentrated energy.

Uranium prospecting is no different than other forms of mineral exploration with the exception of some specialized instruments used to detect the presence of radioactive species.

The Geiger Counter is the original radiation detector, first adapted for field use in the 1930s. It remained the principle instrument used for uranium prospecting for decades. Today, airborne gamma-ray spectrometry (first developed in the 1940s) is the accepted leading technique for uranium prospecting with worldwide applications for geological mapping, mineral exploration and environmental monitoring. Once discovered by geophysical techniques, a deposit of uranium is evaluated and sampled to determine the amount of uranium that is extractable from the deposit at a specified cost.