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 [...]
Channel Resources Ltd. reports that, based on target area dimensions and trends outlined by airborne magnetic and spectrometer survey data, the Company has extended the West Bienville Uranium Project license area in northern Quebec from 220 claims (108.2 km2) to 288 claims (141.7 km2). The south-easterly extension of the property follows a trend of uranium [...]
Western Uranium Corporation is pleased to announce drilling has started on the regional uranium targets: Bull Basin and Old Man Springs on the Kings Valley Project, Nevada. To expedite the program and accommodate permitting of a large number of drill sites, the core drill program is being helicopter assisted. One core rig is currently on-site [...]
Gravity West Mining Corp. is pleased to announce that it has identified potential kimberlite, uranium, and IOCG (Iron Oxide Copper-Gold) exploration targets from the interpretation of the 2007 airborne geophysical survey data. The study was carried out by Condor Consulting Inc., who is specialists in airborne geophysical data interpretation. A total of 40 kimberlite targets, [...]
Premier Alan Carpenter has come under renewed pressure to lift the ban on uranium mining after new research estimated an expansion of the uranium industry would help cut up to 15 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases and deliver a $27 billion boost to the economy.
Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson released a report yesterday which estimated [...]
A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals must decide whether an area of western New Mexico proposed for uranium mining should be treated as Indian land.
Hydro Resources Inc., a New Mexico company, is challenging last year’s decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that an area where the company wants to [...]
A study by experts has negated fears of health hazards from mining of uranium in Meghalaya, even as the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) sought to convince the local people that the proposed mining project would pave the way for a massive development of the state.
Having faced stiff opposition from [...]
OJSC Priargun Mining and Chemicals Association, Russia’s biggest uranium mining enterprise, saw its net profit plummet 71.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2008 to 20.02 million rubles. Priargun, located in the Chita region, said in a financial statement that sales revenue rose 15.3% to 1.671 billion rubles and that costs rose more than 17% [...]
Brazil’s government is considering ending a state monopoly on uranium mining, Dilma Rousseff, the chief of staff of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is quoted as saying in the O Globo newspaper Thursday.
Private companies have already shown interest to explore Brazilian uranium deposits, among the mining giant Cia. Vale do Rio Doce (RIO), or [...]
Uranium mining in the United States may be about to surge, a spike in claims being filed indicates.
In five Western states where uranium is mined, 43,153 claims were filed last year, up from 4,333 in 2004, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. The area of interest includes near the Grand Canyon, where U.S. Interior Department [...]
