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1 Forensic Science International
Nuclear forensic analysis of an unknown uranium ore concentrate sample seized in a criminal investigation in Australia  Elizabeth Keegan, Michael J. Kristo, Michael Colella, Martin Robel, Ross Williams, Rachel Lindvall, Gary Eppich, Sarah Roberts, Lars Borg, Amy Gaffney, Jonathan Plaue, Henri Wong, Joel Davis, Elaine Loi, Mark Reinhard, Ian Hutcheon  Forensic Science International  Volume 240, Pages (July 2014) DOI: /j.forsciint Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions

2 Fig. 1 Glass jar labelled “Gamma Source” containing radioactive material received by ANSTO. Forensic Science International  , DOI: ( /j.forsciint ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions

3 Fig. 2 Green coloured radioactive material designated NSR-F-130509.
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4 Fig. 3 Secondary electron images of a larger particle (left) and the same cluster at higher magnification (right) showing the particulate morphology of the seized material. Forensic Science International  , DOI: ( /j.forsciint ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions

5 Fig. 4 Secondary electron images of the seized sample compared with Mary Kathleen UOC (NSR-F on left and Mary Kathleen on right) prepared by surface transfer (top) and ultrasonication (bottom). Scale bar for the top images is 10μm and 30μm for the bottom images. Forensic Science International  , DOI: ( /j.forsciint ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions

6 Fig. 5 A comparison of secondary electron images for disaggregated samples of NSR-F (on left) and Mary Kathleen (on right,) at increased magnification. Scale bar for the top images is 5μm and 1μm for the bottom images. Forensic Science International  , DOI: ( /j.forsciint ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions

7 Fig. 6 Chondrite normalised rare earth element (REE) plot for Australian UOC samples and also Mary Kathleen Uranium (MKU) ore. Forensic Science International  , DOI: ( /j.forsciint ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions

8 Fig. 7 Sulphate/Cl- ratios measured in the aqueous leachate of a range of UOC samples including Mary Kathleen and NSR-F Forensic Science International  , DOI: ( /j.forsciint ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions

9 Fig. 8 Principal Components Analysis (PCA) of a UOC dataset along with NSR-F The scores plots (left) show the mapping of 77 different samples representing 76 different production sources into the PCA space. Symbols indicate production countries. The bar plots (right) show the loadings (i.e., the weighting) for each of the 48 analytes on the two PCs. Forensic Science International  , DOI: ( /j.forsciint ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions


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