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    development until the uranium market price improves. For several decades uranium mining has been a major part of the Australian political discussion,...
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    Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. Over 50,000 tons of uranium were produced in 2019. Kazakhstan, Canada, and...
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    Pedy are known as mining towns. Major active mines in Australia include: Olympic Dam in South Australia, a copper, silver and uranium mine believed to...
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  • share, followed by Australia with 12%. Uranium has been mined in every continent except Antarctica. Uranium mining in the DRC ceased in 2004 with the closure...
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    uranium mining and nuclear energy. The Australian Uranium Association was founded in September 2006 and advocated for the interests of uranium mining...
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    uranium mining and export, and nuclear power have often been the subject of public debate in Australia, and the anti-nuclear movement in Australia has...
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    located in South Australia, 550 km (340 mi) NNW of Adelaide. It is the fourth largest copper deposit and the largest known single deposit of uranium in the...
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    The Ranger Uranium Mine was a uranium mine in the Northern Territory of Australia. The site is surrounded by, but separate from Kakadu National Park, 230 km...
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    uranium mining debate covers the political and environmental controversies of uranium mining for use in either nuclear power or nuclear weapons. In 2022...
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    production in the next few years. Uranium mining in Namibia is of considerable importance to the national economy. In 2020, Namibia produced 11% of uranium worldwide...
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    Uranium mining in Colorado, United States, goes back to 1872, when pitchblende ore was taken from gold mines near Central City, Colorado. The Colorado...
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    Park, located in the Northern Territory of Australia, possesses within its boundaries a number of large uranium deposits. The uranium is legally owned...
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    the world's known reserves. In part due to its connection to nuclear weapons, uranium mining was heavily opposed in Australia during the 1970s and 1980s...
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  • Three-mine policy (category Uranium mining in Australia)
    foundations of the three-mine policy for uranium mining were laid in 1982, when, at a conference of the Australian Labor Party, the party decided to adopt...
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  • uranium reserves Uranium market Uranium ore deposits Mining Uranium List of countries by uranium production UraMin "World Uranium Mining Production". World...
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    deposit. The primary use for uranium obtained from mining is in fuel for nuclear reactors. Globally, the distribution of uranium ore deposits is widespread...
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  • The Uranium Council is an entity created by the Australian Government in 2009. Chair Mark Chalmers has described it as "a combined Australian Government...
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  • Western Australia has considerable resources of uranium, but to date there has been no commercial mining in the state. Two uranium mining projects in the...
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    Uranium mining in France is the activity of the 210 or so uranium mines that operated in the country between 1945 and 2001. Together, these sites produced...
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    Uzbekistan is since 1992 only. Uranium mining List of countries by uranium production Uranium mining by country Uranium 2020: Resources, Production and...
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    phosphate. It was the world's 12th largest producer of uranium in 2018. The mining sector in South Africa falls under the mandate of the Department of...
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    of Australian inquiries and reports relating to uranium mining issues. For several decades uranium mining has been a major part of the Australian political...
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    Uranium mining in the United States produced 224,331 pounds (101.8 tonnes) of U3O8 in 2023, 15% of the 2018 production of 1,447,945 pounds (656.8 tonnes)...
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  • The Australian Uranium Association was an Australian industry trade group which represented companies involved in uranium exploration, mining and export...
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  • Richard Yeeles (category Uranium mining in Australia)
    uranium mining and processing. Yeeles has worked at the Olympic Dam mine near Roxby Downs in South Australia under the management of Western Mining Corporation...
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  • it will unleash disaster. This segues into the discussion of uranium mining in Australia.[non-primary source needed] The series premiered on 6 August...
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    Scott Ludlam (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    in the Senate. Ludlam has been involved in numerous political campaigns, including opposition to uranium mining at Jabiluka and in Western Australia,...
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  • Kym Winter-Dewhirst (category Uranium mining in Australia)
    gold and uranium mine near Roxby Downs in South Australia. Prior to BHP Billiton's acquisition of Western Mining Corporation and its assets in 2005 (which...
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    Helen Caldicott (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    informed Australian trade unions about the medical and military dangers of uranium mining, which led to the three-year banning of the mining and export...
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    1972–73 debate over French nuclear testing in the Pacific and the 1976–77 debate about uranium mining in Australia. Several groups specifically concerned...
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