However, the year ended with announcements of significant production cuts by major uranium producers, with an approximately one-million-pound-U3O8-per-annum production cut at AREVA's Somair Project in Niger, followed by Cameco's announcement to suspend production at its McArthur River Mine, the world's largest
9, 2018) - Uranium Participation Corporation ("UPC") (TSX:U) reports its estimated net asset value at December 31, 2017 was CAD$506.0 million or
s flagship uranium mine, 62 contract cleaners, housekeepers and kitchen staff at the northern site voted 67 per cent in favour of joining the labour group.
A tractor-trailer carrying uranium concentrate or yellowcake to Cameco's Blind River refinery was involved in a minor traffic accident on Sunday. The incident took place on the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 17) between Wawa and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Although Cameco says the contracted
The "Uranium Mining Market Report" gives a clear understanding of the current market situation which includes of antique and projected upcoming market size based on technological growth, value and volume, projecting cost-effective and leading fundamentals in the Uranium Mining market. Uranium
The uranium mining company has chartered all of its flights through West Wind since 2006. The regular commuter service to mine sites is described as several flights a week. Transwest is a wholly-owned subsidiary of West Wind Aviation. "What's changed here is it's really just a different entity that's doing
Although South Africa is no longer the world's largest gold producer and is now ranked sixth in the world, the gold and uranium mining sector is one of the largest components of the domestic mining industry on the basis of employment and export earnings. During 2016, South Africa produced 165.6t of gold, exported 103.7t
The PNE Project is located on the prolific east side of the Athabasca Basin, northern Saskatchewan, the most productive uranium producing region in the world. The project covers
When locals in western Colorado's old uranium mining towns of Naturita and Nucla get word that a journalist is coming to town, they reach for their guns. Not to shoot the "fake news" media. No, they dust off their firearms as props for photo ops. Ever since Nucla passed a law in 2013 requiring every
Although South Africa is no longer the world's largest gold producer and is now ranked sixth in the world, the gold and uranium mining sector is one of the largest components of the domestic mining industry on the basis of employment and export earnings. During 2016, South Africa produced 165.6t of gold,
In addition to the Company's in-house project development team, Denison has assembled a group of leading engineering and consulting firms, with mine development, metallurgical, and environmental experience applicable to the development of a large-scale uranium mining operation in northern Saskatchewan,
SASKATCHEWAN - Toronto's Denison Mines Corp. is ready to begin the pre-feasibility study for its Wheeler River uranium project in the Athabasca Basin. The company has engaged Stantec Consulting and Engcomp Engineering and Computing Professionals to lead and author the study. Hatch will
The now abandoned South Terras mine near St Austell in Cornwall was the UK's only and most important uranium mine, and operated between 1873 and 1930. Marie Curie obtained her early samples of radium - a byproduct of uranium mining - there. But there are numerous abandoned uranium mines
Although South Africa is no longer the world's largest gold producer and is now ranked sixth in the world, the gold and uranium mining sector is one of the largest components of the domestic mining industry on the basis of employment and export earnings. During 2016, South Africa produced 165.6t of gold,
A lot of the ones from Sudbury, it would have been in the Elliot Lake mines where they were exposed, because it was used in a lot of the uranium mines." Martell said there was a time aluminum dust was being considered for Sudbury's mines. "In the mid-70s, there was a document from the McIntyre
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
When locals in western Colorado's old uranium mining towns of Naturita and Nucla get word that a journalist is coming to town, they reach for their guns. Not to shoot the "fake news" media. No, they dust off their firearms as props for photo ops. Ever since Nucla passed a law in 2013 requiring every
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
File photo: In a May 25 letter to the Interior Department, Chief Operating Officer Mark Chalmers wrote that the 1.35 million-acre expanse Obama created "could affect existing and future mill operations." He later noted, "There are also many other known uranium and vanadium deposits located within the
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