Uranium Stocks: 5 Biggest Companies in 2024 | INN
— Market cap: US$135.42 billion. Mining major BHP owns and operates Australia's Olympic Dam mine, considered one of the world's largest uranium deposits.While the site is included in the company ...
Australia's Uranium Production and Exports
Learn about Australia's uranium resources, production, exports and nuclear safeguards policy. Find out the latest statistics, trends and challenges for the uranium industry in Australia and its global markets.
The future of uranium mining in Australia
— Overall, the future of uranium mining in Australia looks bright. By being innovative, sustainable, and actively involving stakeholders, the industry can overcome uncertainties and make the most of …
Uranium and thorium
— The mining of uranium has been a hot topic in Australia since the 1970s. Concerns about the safety of nuclear power and storage of nuclear waste, and a growing international stockpile of nuclear weapons, have sparked much discussion about Australia's role in supplying fuel for the nuclear industry.
Uranium
Regulation within Australia. In Australia, uranium is subject to a myriad of state-based policy and legislation. Mining is currently allowed in the Northern Territory and South Australia. There is a policy ban on new …
Rum Jungle uranium mine | National Museum of Australia
— In 1954 Australia's first large-scale uranium mine officially opened at Rum Jungle, 100 kilometres south of Darwin. Until it closed in 1971, the mine supplied the US and British nuclear weapons programs. ... Uranium mining at Rum Jungle. In 1952 representatives from the United States and Britain visited Australia to discuss the …
Does Australia have the will to develop the next critical …
— Western Australia, which opened up to uranium mining in 2008, has now implemented a 'no uranium' condition on future mining leases, permitting only the four previously approved projects to proceed. Bizarrely, it states in a government-issued fact sheet 'the State Government would prefer that no uranium is mined in the State'.
Uranium
Uranium in South Australia. South Australia is a major exporter of uranium oxide and attracts many companies (including global majors) to explore, develop and mine uranium. South Australia hosts: approximately 80% of Australia's economic demonstrated resources of uranium. approximately 23% of the world's uranium resources.
Western Australia's uranium future in doubt as just one in …
— Key points: Just one out of four proposed uranium mines in Western Australia is to proceed after time limits expire; In 2017, Labor banned future uranium mining, giving the four approved projects ...
Uranium in Australia
According to GlobalData, Australia is the world's fourth-largest producer of uranium in 2023, with output up by 4% on 2022. Over the five years to 2022, production from Australia decreased by a CAGR of 8.58% and is expected to rise by …
Uranium
Australia is the third largest uranium producer in the world. In 2014-15, Australia exported 5,515 tonnes of uranium oxide concentrate valued at $532 million. The majority of Australia's uranium is produced in South Australia, which accounted for 3,893 tonnes of U3O8 in 2014-15.
Uranium mining in Australia: Environmental impact, …
— The mining and export of uranium and the impacts (and risks) of the nuclear industry have long been a contentious issue in Australia. The ongoing debate primarily relates to the established and ...
Uranium mining in Kakadu National Park, …
— The injustice of uranium mining in Kakadu National Park is not the only one in Australia against aboriginal communities. By 2019, the Ranger uranium mine is facing enormous rehabilitation costs. ...
AUSTRALIA'S URANIUM MINES – Parliament of Australia
The mining of uranium in Australia commenced 1954. However, small amounts of radium had been mined at Radium Hill in South Australia since the 1930s. Two uranium mines operate today in Australia, Ranger in the Northern Territory and Olympic Dam in South Australia. All uranium produced is exported for nuclear power generation.
Koba secures interest in new South Australia tenements
— "Anomalous uranium intersections within paleochannel sands have been returned from the very limited drilling in this newly acquired area. "This provides Koba additional opportunities to discover paleochannel-hosted uranium mineralisation – all within a world-class, pro-uranium mining jurisdiction in South Australia."
Queensland lifts its uranium ban, but is the price worth the …
— Australia's uranium past and present mines, as well as major deposits. The newly opened Four Mile is yet to be added to this map. World Nuclear Association, April 2014., CC BY-SA The three mines ...
Clean-up of uranium mine in Kakadu could cost $2.2 billion
— Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) — a subsidiary of mining giant Rio Tinto — shut down production at its Ranger uranium mine, 250 kilometres east of Darwin, in January last year and has ...
Uranium mines harm Indigenous people
— The Yeelirrie uranium mine is the latest instalment in Australia's long tradition of ignoring the dignity and welfare of Aboriginal communities in the pursuit of nuclear fuel.
Energy for whom? Uranium mining, Indigenous people, and …
— 1. Introduction. It is estimated that 70 per cent of the world's uranium is located on, or adjacent to, the lands of First Peoples [40]. 1 In Australia, home to 31 per cent of the world's recoverable uranium [132], the three operational uranium mines and all major identified uranium deposits are situated on the traditional lands of the country's First …
Uranium mining has long divided Western …
— Uranium mining occurs in other states but has been prohibited by the WA government since 2017. ... "Australia has exported uranium for a very long time, and I think it's really important to look ...
Uranium and Thorium | Australia's Energy …
In 2021, Australia had two producing uranium mines: Olympic Dam and Four Mile, both in South Australia. Australian supply of uranium is set to decrease by approximately 20 per cent in the medium term, due to the …
Australia ends attempts to revive uranium mining in national …
— The Australian government has intervened to block a renewed attempt to mine under Kakadu National Park in the country's Northern Territory, all but ending a …
Seizing the opportunity to make Australia a uranium …
— And last year, the NSW Government threw its support behind a bill to repeal the State's 30-year ban on uranium mining. Despite Australia's tremendous potential, there are only two operating uranium mines – BHP's Olympic Dam and Heathgate's Beverley operations. Both are located in South Australia, where a third mine, the Honeymoon ...
Expensive, dirty and dangerous: why we must fight miners' …
— Australia's uranium export revenue from 1977 to December A$2019 was A$29.4 billion. Lithium has now overtaken uranium in export revenue – from 2017 to 2019, lithium earned Australia two to ...
Comparative life-cycle assessment of uranium extraction …
— Section 3 describes the global producers of uranium, their production capacity by year, location, and the current scenario of uranium mining in Australia. Section 4 describes the sustainability issues about uranium mining in Australia that are reported from open literature, as Australia has the highest deposit of uranium mining throughout the ...
Piche Resources hits 16,050ppm uranium at …
— The holes targeted uranium mineralisation at the Angelo A prospect, where no drilling has been undertaken in the last 40 years, and confirmed the down-dip continuation of the mineralisation. The best …
Uranium mining, waste and Indigenous Australia
— Despite accidents and encroachment on Indigenous land, uranium mining continues. Australia possesses 31 percent of the world's uranium, and is the world's third largest producer behind Kazakhstan and Canada. Uranium mining accounts for a workforce of 1200, generating $21 million in royalties annually and contributing over $42 million …
Uranium and Thorium
— In 2022, Australia had two producing uranium mines: Olympic Dam and Four Mile, both in South Australia. The Honeymoon Mine (Boss Energy) in South Australia, which has been in care and maintenance since 2013, has announced plans to re-start uranium …
Investing in ASX uranium shares
— It was Australia's longest continually operating uranium oxide producer until mining ceased in 2021. Clean-up of the site is now underway, with site rehabilitation legally required to be completed ...
Uranium and Thorium | Australia's Energy Commodity …
In 2020, Australia's uranium was produced from three operating mines: Olympic Dam and Four Mile in South Australia, and Ranger in the Northern Territory (Figure 6). Australia's uranium production will fall by approximately 20 per cent in the medium term due to the cessation of mining at the Ranger mine.