Ogala Sioux got a lift from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission who ruled in late April that the tribe had legitimate concerns about groundwater contamination from a uranium mine, reports Indian Country Today. The mine owners, Cameco Corp. of Canada wants to expand the mine. The tribe believes that fractures in rock allow water used [...]
South Korea signed a contract Monday to purchase 2,600 tons of uranium worth 400 million U.S. dollars from Uzbekistan between 2010 and 2016, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported on Monday.
The contract was signed after South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo met with his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoev in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, Yonhap [...]
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% [...]
A uranium shortage has India’s nuclear plants running below capacity.
The government admitted the shortage along with declining profits only last week, the Times of India reported.
“Currently, there is a mismatch in the demand and supply of indigenous uranium. As a result, this capacity is being operated at lower power level, matching fuel supply,” a government [...]
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 [...]
White Canyon Uranium announced it received final analytical results from the recently completed first diamond drilling program on the Daneros Uranium deposit at White Canyon, near Blanding, Utah. The Company reported high grade results confirmed with assay intervals of up to 3.4% U3O8 and 17% Cu; high grade zone extended to 250m, open to north [...]
White Canyon Uranium announced it received final analytical results from the recently completed first diamond drilling program on the Daneros Uranium deposit at White Canyon, near Blanding, Utah. The Company reported high grade results confirmed with assay intervals of up to 3.4% U3O8 and 17% Cu; high grade zone extended to 250m, open to north [...]
Geneva Resources, Inc.’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) have accepted the consent of Bertrand Taquet as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company effective April 28, 2008.
Bertrand Taquet has over twenty-five years of experience as an exploration geologist, having worked for multiple companies in areas of precious metal mining and exploration and [...]
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 [...]
Hawk Uranium Inc. is pleased to announce that Geotech Ltd., of Aurora, Ontario has commenced a 2,000 km helicopter-borne Time Domain Electromagnetic Geophysical Survey with a VTEM system over Hawk’s wholly owned Cluff Lake Uranium Project in Northern Saskatchewan. Geotech Ltd. has advised Hawk that it expects to complete this survey by the end of [...]
