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U2009 Global Uranium Symposium Announced

September 25th, 2008
U2009 Global Uranium Symposium Announced

The U2009 Global Uranium Symposium will be held May 9-13, 2009 at the Keystone, Colorado Resort & Conference located in the scenic Rocky Mountains, a two-hour drive from Denver International Airport and near several other ski resorts, lakes and snowcapped mountains.
The symposium will bring together uranium industry professionals and students representing the beginning of the [...]

Takara Resources Inc.: Update-South African Coal Applications and Other Projects

September 17th, 2008
Takara Resources Inc.: Update-South African Coal Applications and Other Projects

Takara Resources Inc. announces that it has been actively addressing the criteria required by the South African Department of Minerals and Energy, in order to obtain prospecting rights on 5 projects prospective for coal, all of which are located in a region that is active in coal exploration and production.
Over the summer, Takara has, together [...]

Mega Uranium Ltd.: Removal of the Uranium Mine Development Ban in Western Australia

September 15th, 2008
Mega Uranium Ltd.: Removal of the Uranium Mine Development Ban in Western Australia

Mega Uranium Ltd. report the favorable outcome of the Western Australia State election, which has resulted in the incumbent Labor Party government, which opposed uranium mining, being replaced by an alliance of the Liberal Party and National Party. As the two parties forming the new State Government both have policies that favor new uranium mine [...]

Pele Mountain Assembles Team of Uranium Industry Leaders to Develop Eco Ridge Mine at Elliot Lake

August 26th, 2008
Pele Mountain Assembles Team of Uranium Industry Leaders to Develop Eco Ridge Mine at Elliot Lake

Pele Mountain Resources Inc. announced that it has assembled a world-class technical team to develop its recently-named Eco Ridge Mine project in Northern Ontario’s historic Elliot Lake uranium camp. In October 2007, Pele received a positive scoping study for the project which outlined a NI 43-101 compliant resource of 6.4 million pounds of “indicated” U3O8 [...]

Cameco Acquires Uranium Exploration Interest in Niger

August 23rd, 2008
Cameco Acquires Uranium Exploration Interest in Niger

Cameco Corporation announced it has formed a strategic alliance with Govi High Power Exploration Inc. (GoviEx) and acquired an approximate 11% interest in the company for $28 million (US).
GoviEx is a closely held exploration company formed in 2006 with uranium exploration assets in Niger, Africa. The company holds about 2,300 square kilometres of exploration [...]

Crosshair Provides Exploration Update & Announces Start of Drilling

August 14th, 2008
Crosshair Provides Exploration Update & Announces Start of Drilling

Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp. provide an update on the 2008 summer exploration program on the Company’s Central Mineral Belt (CMB) Uranium Project in Labrador and to announce that drilling is now underway to test priority targets along the main Armstrong - Area 1 - C Zone corridor.
Highlights of the 2008 summer program to date [...]

Strathmore Continues to Develop Uranium Mill Design For its Projects in Northwest New Mexico

July 11th, 2008
Strathmore Continues to Develop Uranium Mill Design For its Projects in Northwest New Mexico

Strathmore Minerals Corp. is pleased to update progress on its uranium mill and tailings design and studies being carried out by the Company for its uranium projects in northwestern New Mexico. The Company and its Joint Venture partner, Sumitomo Corporation of Japan, have made considerable progress in the evaluation of designing and identifying the optimal [...]

Mining Omnia Profits From Global Energy Demand

June 23rd, 2008
Mining Omnia Profits From Global Energy Demand

DIVERSIFIED and specialist chemical services group Omnia, which yesterday posted a 30% increase in headline earnings per share to 724,5c for the year ended March, said there was significant potential for its mining division to expand into Africa.
CEO Rod Humphris said: “We remain particularly bullish on prospects for coal and uranium mining as a host [...]

Uranium company receives draft mine permit for Goliad County

June 9th, 2008
Uranium company receives draft mine permit for Goliad County

The uranium mining company that started a project in Goliad County has received a draft mine permit from the state.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued the draft permit to Uranium Energy Corp. and will accept public comment for 30 days, a news release from the uranium company stated. This would be the first such [...]

Universal Uranium Enters Into Agreement to Sell Central Mineral Belt Properties to Crosshair Exploration

May 23rd, 2008
Universal Uranium Enters Into Agreement to Sell Central Mineral Belt Properties to Crosshair Exploration

Universal Uranium Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Crosshair Exploration and Mining Corp. under which Crosshair will acquire all of Universal’s interest in the Central Mineral Belt (CMB) of Labrador, which totals approximately 4,737 claims. Universal and its 40% partner Silver Spruce Resources issued news releases [...]