The Environmental Protection Agency is overstepping its authority if it continues to enforce Obama administration-era environmental rules for uranium mining, said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., in a letter to the agency. Barrasso, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter
Spain's National Audience dismissed a series of allegations presented by Berkeley Energia (ASX:BKY) against a legal action filed by a group of environmentalists who oppose the company's Salamanca uranium project. The open-pit mine is the London/Salamanca-based miner's flagship project and is
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
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
The Washington Post reports that a Canadian firm, Energy Fuels Resources, urged the Trump administration to reduce the monument to make it easier to access uranium ore within the original boundaries of the monument. The nation's sole uranium processing mill sits next to the original borders of the
The first northern Saskatchewan uranium deposits were discovered in the early 1950s and Eldorado began mining at Beaverlodge Mine in 1953. In 1968, the Rabbit Lake deposit was discovered in northern Saskatchewan by Gulf Minerals Ltd. and the German-owned Uranerz Exploration and Mining Limited, and by 1975 ...
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This is type of mining is only possible if the uranium ore is near the surface (
This is type of mining is only possible if the uranium ore is near the surface (
Uranium Resources' Mark Pelizza explains how uranium is mined--either through a conventional or in situ ...