A mineralogical, petrographic and geochemical study of the proterozoic siliciclastic sedimentary intracontinental basins of Waterberg (Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa), Cariewerloo (Gawler Craton, South Australia), Satakunta and Muhos (Fennoscandian Shield, Finland), unconformably overlying archaean and paleoproterozoic basement, have been characterized and compared with other districts throughout the world similar in age and lithology (the basin of Athabasca in Canada, the basin of Kombolgie in Australia, and the basin of Pasha-Ladoga in Russia) which are associated with uranium ore deposits. The realized study made it possible to reconstitute the nature of the detrital phases and their evolution during diagenesis and hydrothermal events, in...