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
About Energy Fuels: Energy Fuels is a leading integrated US-based uranium mining company, supplying U3O8 to major nuclear utilities. Energy Fuels holds three of America's key uranium production centers, the White Mesa Mill in Utah, the Nichols Ranch Processing Facility in Wyoming, and the Alta Mesa
The move by Kazatomprom echoes Cameco's own efforts to bring the uranium market into balance. The Saskatchewan-based miner announced plans to suspend production for 10 months at its McArthur River facility, which is the world's largest uranium mine, earlier in the fall. The suspension, which
Anfield's conventional uranium assets consist of mining claims and state leases in southeastern Utah, and Arizona, targeting areas where past uranium mining or prospecting occurred. Anfield's conventional uranium assets include the Velvet-Wood Project, the Frank M Uranium Project, as well as the
At issue is a 2010 transaction in which the Obama Administration allowed the sale of U.S. uranium mining facilities to Russia's state atomic energy company. Hillary Clinton was secretary of state at the time, and the State Department was one of nine agencies that agreed to approve the deal after finding no
Vladimir Evdokimov, Deputy Director-General of Priargunskiy industrial mining and chemical Union, which is part of the Atomredmetzoloto, the mining division of Rosatom, detained when he was receiving a bribe of 5 million rubles ($ 85 thousand), TASS agency reported citing a source. The top-manager
Blue Sky Uranium Corp. (TSX: V.BSK, OTCQB: BKUCF, Forum) is a junior exploration company now on the radar of the Stockhouse audience. Investors were first introduced to BSK in a full-length feature article from November 2016. The Stockhouse Community was alerted to a great uranium opportunity in
Thorburn Lake consists of two claims totaling 2,802 hectares and is located seven kilometres east of Cameco Corp.'s Cigar Lake uranium mine. Figure 1 shows the location of Thorburn Lake relative to the Cigar Lake mine, other uranium occurrences, and key infrastructure in the area including a powerline
The announcement made by uranium giant Cameco in November that it's suspending operations at its flagship McArthur River mine in northern Saskatchewan and surprisingly deep three-year cuts by Kazakhstan's state-owned Kazatomprom provide a "step change" for uranium prices says a new report on
In Part One of Grand Canyon Futures, Intercontinental Cry's Garet Bleir looks at some of the key issues he uncovered during his investigation into the Canyon uranium mine owned by Toronto-based mining company, Energy Fuels. Just a few months ago, millions of gallons of water fell into the depths of the
Dems press Trump admin to keep uranium mining ban. Dylan Brown, E&E News reporter. Published: Monday, December 18, 2017. While the Forest Service hasn't taken official action to roll back uranium mining limits near the Grand Canyon, Democrats remain concerned the Trump administration will trim or eliminate the
While the Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission both oversee uranium mining, when it comes to an Obama-era rule to
"Once that information was distributed throughout the society by us, anxiety levels diminished significantly: what it really comes down to is keeping the locals informed," he says. "We learned a lot through that process; getting Denmark to overturn its 40-year ban on uranium mining is no small feat." Dundas
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
A US appeals court has upheld a ban imposed by the previous federal administration on new mining claims around the Grand Canyon in Arizona. In 2012, the US Department of the Interior under the rule of former US President Barack Obama enforced the ban on new uranium mining claims across one
Unfortunately the court also rejected a challenge to the Canyon Mine, a uranium mine located on the Kaibab National Forest six miles south of Grand Canyon National Park. The court's decision allows Energy Fuels Inc. to mine without initiating or completing formal tribal consultations and without updating
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 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
``Uranium mining has been associated with uranium and arsenic contamination in water supplies, which may affect plant and animal growth, survival, and reproduction, and which may increase the incidence of kidney damage and cancer in humans,'' she wrote. And Berzon noted that multiple reports ``all
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