Environmental groups cheered a U.S. appeals court decision in December that upheld a 20-year ban on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, though on the same day the court released a decision allowing operations to continue at a grandfathered uranium mine on the South Rim. Revising the
12: the 20-year moratorium on new uranium mines was upheld. The group had filed suit with the court more than a year earlier to save the moratorium put in place in 2012 by Barack Obama's administration. The National Mining Association had previously sued in a lower court to overturn the ban, which
It is also revisiting old uranium mines shuttered during a multiyear bust for the
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MEDICINE BOW - A uranium mine 30 miles north of Medicine Bow could soon resume mining operations using a previously explored
UEX is currently advancing several uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin which include the Christie Lake Deposits, the Kianna, Anne,
Our sources are telling us that President Trump is nearing a decision on how to revive the all-but-dormant American uranium industry. This proposed plan would
This photo of a silhouetted miner shows work being done at Monument No. 2, a major uranium mine in Monument Valley. By the early 1960s Navajo miners, many of whom had no workplace protection from radiation, had mined 6 million tons of uranium off Navajo lands. By 1981, teenage girls living in
The site of a potential uranium mine in southwest South Dakota will not have to be surveyed for cultural resources of concern to the Oglala
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. conservation groups Wednesday hailed a court decision to uphold a 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims over 1 million acres (about 4,046 square km) of public lands adjacent to the Grand Canyon, one of the symbols of the American West. "We are delighted
In this Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 photo, a Virginia Uranium Inc. project manager operates a Geiger counter in a hole next to the road near a uranium deposit on the Coles Hill Farm in Chatham, Va. A three-decade ban on uranium mining in Virginia has put the richest known deposit of the radioactive ore in the
The Bureau of Land Management is now considering an expansion for the idled Daneros Mine, located in Bullseye Canyon, pictured in the middle distance of this aerial photograph. Colorado-based Energy Fuels Resources wants to extract 500,000 tons of uranium ore over 20 years from the mine, located
A 20-year ban on the mining of uranium near the Grand Canyon has been upheld by the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The court ruling effectively confirmed that the ban is lawful and the government has the power to impose it. The US Department of the Interior decided in January 2012 to withdraw
A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower-court ruling keeping a ban on uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, but also upheld a separate decision allowing a uranium mine nearby to open. The decisions by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, related to cases argued last
A powerful court ruled on Tuesday that an Obama-era ban on new uranium mines around the Grand Canyon should stay in place, though
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is suing Ottawa over what it says is a failure to live up to a deal to split the swelling costs of cleaning
by Greg Klein. Less than 80 kilometres from the technological marvel of Cigar Lake, another uranium project could introduce an extraction
Hyderabad: The proposals for exploratory drilling for eventual possible mining of uranium in Nallamala forests in the State, in two blocks of
HONG KONG - Uranium is heading for its longest run of monthly gains since November 2014 as global supply tightens after mine closures and
Anti uranium mining groups like Khasi Students' Union have been campaigning against leasing out land to UCIL for pre-mining development