Walter Coles Sr. stood on a hill overlooking the Virginia pasture land that his family has farmed since it was deeded to them by Thomas Jefferson, motioning with a sweep of his hand to the expanse of radioactive treasure buried below."There's uranium everywhere," Coles said of fields that had once been filled with tobacco. The mine would bring hundreds of jobs and tax revenue to an area that's ye...Read More
China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) is looking to invest in overseas uranium mines to secure supply for an expected ramp-up in China's nuclear power generation, a senior company executive said on Wednesday.China and Japan have been ramping up nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels, and rising demand could pull uranium out of a years-long slump that has seen a swathe of projects put on care...Read More
Weekly Reports |Oct 30 2018Producer buying appears to be becoming more urgent as spot uranium hits a two and a half year high.-Producer buying continues-Prices continue to rise-Utilities weighing up the situationBy Greg PeelProducers of uranium again moved into the spot market early last week, prompting sellers to back off. Producers are meant to be sellers, but have shut down loss-making producti...Read More
The world's biggest miners are cranking up spending for the first time in half a decade as well as pursuing more takeovers - and investors are flashing hazard lights as commodities prices slide and as doubts swirl over the outlook.Capital expenditure among the 10 largest metals and mining companies is forecast to advance to about $35 billion this year, the first annual rise since 2013, according t...Read More
OTTAWA - Late last month the Tax Court of Canada ruled in favour of Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) in the company's decade-long dispute with the Canada Revenue Agency over tax reassessments for the 2003, 2005 and 2006 tax years.Now the CRA says it plans to appeal the decision with the Federal Court of Appeal, a process Cameco estimates would take about two years.Decisions of the Federal Court of A...Read More
Late last month the Tax Court of Canada ruled in favour of Cameco Corp. (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) in the company's decade-long dispute with the Canada Revenue Agency over tax reassessments for the 2003, 2005 and 2006 tax years.Now the CRA says it plans to appeal the decision with the Federal Court of Appeal, a process Cameco estimates would take about two years.Decisions of the Federal Court of Appea...Read More
Namibia has scrapped a requirement for companies seeking mining exploration licences to be partly owned and managed by black Namibians, the country's mining industry group said on Friday.The policy was introduced in 2015 to increase the participation of historically disadvantaged black Namibians in some of the country's most lucrative business projects, but critics said it threatened the d...Read More
Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. (CSE: WUC) announced plans to re-open the Sunday Mine Complex, located in western San Miguel County, Colorado.The complex extends for 3,748 hectares and consists of five individual mines currently in temporary cessation. These are the Sunday mine, the Carnation mine, the Saint Jude mine, the West Sunday mine and the Topaz mine. Last time they were mined was between...Read More
MATSUYAMA, EHIME PREF. - Shikoku Electric Power Co. on Saturday restarted a reactor at its Ikata nuclear power plant after a suspension of nearly one year due to a high court order.The restart of the No. 3 unit at the plant in the town of Ikata, Ehime Prefecture, announced by the power company overnight Friday, came after a high court accepted an appeal by the utility in a late September ruling th...Read More
Shares in Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), the world's no.1 heavy machinery maker, fell more than 7% in pre-market trading Tuesday, despite the company beating earnings estimates for the tenth time in a row.The stock lost as much as $9.76 by 8:48 a.m. EST, dropping to $118.95, after closing at $128.71 on Monday, the lowest so far this year. The drop followed the mining and construction equipment manufact...Read More
Weekly Reports |Oct 23 2018The uranium spot priced ticked up again last week as Section 232 uncertainty lingers.-232 submissions roll in-Canada bites back-Kazatomprom IPO to proceedBy Greg PeelThe US Department of Commerce Section 232 investigation into US uranium imports from state-sponsored producers remains ongoing, with more than 900 comments now having been received for review. The investigat...Read More
WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday it has withdrawn a regulation proposed in the last days of the Obama administration that aimed to tighten health and safety compliance rules for uranium miners.On Jan. 19, 2017 - a day before Donald Trump took office as president - the EPA had proposed standards to regulate by-product materials produced by urani...Read More
Activist group Ecologists in Action and other organizations visited the European Parliament in Brussels and demanded the closure of all active mines in Spain.Backed by left-wing MP Xabier Benito, the environmentalists organized a conference titled "Mining in Europe: the new extractive challenge." At the forum, they said that mining activities, which in their view have been experiencing a boom in S...Read More
Peninsula Energy Ltd (ASX:PEN) has achieved an 8% increase in production from its Lance Projects in Wyoming, US during the quarter ended September 30 2018, compared to the previous quarter.The increase in production is partly the result of the completion of a dried pounds reconciliation by the toll milling contractor for the period April 2018 to September 2018, as is standard industry practice dur...Read More
Oct 17 (Reuters) - BHP has not seen a material impact from current global trade tensions on its business but remains cautious in the near term, the world's biggest miner said on Wednesday."We closely monitor the external environment, in particular the market volatility triggered by current global trade tensions. Though we have not seen a material impact on our business, we remain cautious in the n...Read More
Beneath the hoods of millions of the clean electric cars rolling onto the world's roads in the next few years will be a dirty battery.Every major carmaker has plans for electric vehicles to cut greenhouse gas emissions, yet their manufacturers are, by and large, making lithium-ion batteries in places with some of the most polluting grids in the world.By 2021, capacity will exist to build batteries...Read More
Australia's chronic shortage of Greenfields mineral discoveries can only be overcome by changing the sector's exploration, financing and training models, according to a keynote speaker at a major international geoscience forum in Adelaide today.Dr Hronsky urged the sector and geoscientists to "front-end load" the area selection process to target new search spaces and to better understand and explo...Read More
Oct 15 (Reuters) - Kazatomprom, the world's biggest uranium producer, said it will float up to a 25 percent stake in its planned initial public offering in London and Kazakhstan, as it looks to cash in on robust demand for the rare metal.Kazatomprom accounts for 20 percent of the world's uranium production and seven years on from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, the beaten down uranium sector i...Read More
Core Exploration Ltd (ASX:CXO) has upgraded the JORC resource estimate for its 100% owned Napperby Uranium Deposit in the Northern Territory.The new estimate of 9.54 million tonnes at 382 ppm U3O8 for 8.03 million pounds of U3O8 is an increase in both grade and contained U3O8.Notably, the Napperby deposit also includes significant vanadium mineralisation of 9.54 million tonnes at 236 ppm vanadium...Read More
Nearly half of uranium production doesn't make money at the prevailing spot price. That's the startling statistic highlighted by Andre Liebenberg, the chief executive of Yellow Cake PLC (LON:YCA).Yellow Cake has been set up to provide investors with a clean entry point into what has hitherto been a pretty opaque market. What really is the true price of uranium? There's the spot price, of course, b...Read More