A Labor document on uranium mining hints at storing nuclear waste in Australia and identifies sites in Queensland and Western Australia for new mines.
Labor resources spokesman Martin Ferguson created the party briefing in March, before party leader Kim Beazley this week announced a push to scrap Labor’s no-new-mines policy.
The Australian newspaper has obtained a copy [...]

Investors moved from uranium to molybdenum yesterday, pushing the few players in the sector higher as the sharemarket tumbled in the wake of stronger-than-expected inflation data.
Molybdenum explorer and market debutante Catalyst Metals surged 8¢ to 28¢, 40 per cent above its 20¢ issue price. Catalyst raised $3.2 million to fund exploration of its Minnie Creek [...]

StockInterview.com announced its top ten most popular news stories for the first half of 2006. Eight of the top ten most popular news stories were interviews with leading experts in the uranium mining sector or coverage on the renaissance in uranium mining during 2006. The top three stories were interviews conducted with Eric Sprott, Chairman [...]

Saying Wyoming’s attitudes toward mining are the best in the United States, an international uranium mining company has agreed to two major acquisitions in the state, leaving little doubt that Wyoming’s long-dormant uranium industry will soon come back into full production.
SXR Uranium One Inc. said it plans to have the Sweetwater uranium mill up and [...]

The wave of consolidation sweeping the uranium sector gathered speed yesterday as emerging heavyweight Paladin Resources readied for a $100 million-plus deal in Queensland and Canadian predator Mega Uranium unveiled a friendly $100 million bid for Perth junior Redport.
The deals coincide with record uranium prices above $US45 a pound and come just two days [...]

Uranium Producers of America Executive Director Jon Indall told StockInterview.com,“It’s fairly apparent this industry, in the next four to five years, could be producing in the range of 20 million pounds.” Questioned about the big jump from about two to three million pounds of current uranium mining production, Indall explained, “Conservatively, five to six years, [...]

Russia’s uranium exploration and mining assets at home and in the CIS will be combined into a single, purely state-owned enterprise, nuclear energy chief Sergei Kiriyenko said Wednesday, scotching hopes that private investors would be allowed to retain minority stakes in uranium enterprises.
The announcement follows President Vladimir Putin’s approval on June 9 of a plan [...]

City, county and state officials for Grants, New Mexico and Cibola County are enthusiastic at the prospects of uranium miners returning to what was once one of the world’s largest uranium mining districts. If they return to Grants, Head of Economic Development for Cibola County Star Gonzales promises, “We will greet them with open arms!” [...]

Russia signed a $1 billion deal Thursday with Kazakhstan to import uranium through a joint-venture mining project.
Russia’s Tekhsnabexport and the Russian-Kazakh-Kyrgyz uranium mining venture Zarechnoye agreed to work together through 2022 on uranium mining, Interfax reported.
This is Russia’s first contract for the import of uranium and is expected to result in as much as 6,000 [...]

TONY EASTLEY: Mining exploration companies have welcomed the Federal Government’s inquiry into uranium mining and nuclear energy.
The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies, AMEC, is holding its National Congress in Perth today.
AMEC represents the mid-range and junior explorers, which have been identifying uranium deposits in Australia in recent years.
The Association says total spending on exploration [...]