• Four Mile is Australia's fifth uranium mine. It is sited in the Frome Basin in far north of the state of South Australia, around 600 kilometres (370 mi)...
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    Mary Kathleen mine Operating Olympic Dam mine Ranger Uranium Mine Beverley Uranium Mine Four Mile uranium mine Honeymoon Uranium Mine Known deposits/possible...
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  • Kazakhstan have been producing the largest share of world uranium. The largest conventional uranium mines are Cigar Lake and McArthur River (Canada); Ranger...
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    The Beverley Mine is Australia's third uranium mine and Australia's first operating in-situ recovery mine. It is located in South Australia in the gazetted...
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    Uranium was discovered in 1954 in the Sierra Nevada of Kern County, along the Kern River about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Bakersfield. Two mines,...
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    the uranium is recovered in much the same way as in any other uranium plant (mill). In Australian ISL mines (Beverley, Four Mile and Honeymoon Mine) the...
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    Future production is expected from Honeymoon Uranium Mine and the planned Four Mile Uranium Mine. Based on 2008 CSIRO report, Australia estimated to have...
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    policy restricted exploitation of uranium deposits to three established mines. A fourth site at Four Mile uranium mine was approved in July 2009. Current...
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    boat journey. Radium, uranium and silver were extracted from the mine during several working periods between 1932 and 1982. Uranium from Eldorado was used...
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    situated directly in the uranium mining belt that experienced a boom in production, and many residents found work in the mines. Prior to 1962, the risks...
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  • The Honeymoon Mine was Australia's second operating in-situ recovery uranium mine, beginning production in 2011. It is located in South Australia and...
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  • Fourmile (redirect from Four Mile Creek)
    Dakota Four Mile, West Virginia Four Mile, Papua New Guinea Four Mile, Western Australia Four Mile Creek, Tasmania, Australia Four Mile uranium mine in Australia...
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    Arroyo. An estimated 1.36 short tons (1.23 t) of uranium and 46 curies of alpha contaminants traveled 80 miles (130 km) downstream to Navajo County, Arizona...
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    Uranium ore deposits are economically recoverable concentrations of uranium within the Earth's crust. Uranium is one of the most common elements in the...
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    Uranium mining in Wyoming was formerly a much larger industry than it is today. Wyoming once had many operating uranium mines, and still has the largest...
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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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    had purchased more than $1.5 billion of uranium from Canadian producers for export. The opening of the mines and the workers they attracted led to the...
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    1977 report as the "greatest uranium prospecting rush in the world". As a result of activities at its four major uranium mines, Bancroft experienced rapid...
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    view to the location of the Mi Vida mine, seven miles east of the marker. Moab uranium mill tailings pile Uranium mining in Utah Steen, Mark (February–March...
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    and five uranium mines, four of which are located in South Australia. Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs) is a large underground mine, Beverley, Four Mile and Honeymoon...
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    / 38.5997°N 109.5976°W / 38.5997; -109.5976 The Moab uranium mill tailings pile is a uranium mill waste pond situated alongside the Colorado River,...
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    In situ leach (redirect from Solution mine)
    uranium mine and Australia's first such mine. The Honeymoon Uranium Mine, South Australia, opened in 2011 and is Australia's second ISL uranium mine....
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    Crow Butte (category Uranium mines in the United States)
    Crow Butte is a uranium mining operation located four miles (6 km) southeast of the city of Crawford in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States. Cameco...
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  • The abolition of the "no new mines" policy allowed the development of the Honeymoon and Four Mile in-situ leach uranium mines, which officially commenced...
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  • Phosphate mining in the United States (category Phosphate mines in the United States)
    America's largest uranium resource, containing an estimated one million tons of uranium. Some parts of the Phosphoria Formation, which is mined for phosphate...
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    a uranium ore processing plant 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Grants, along Route 66, to process ore from the Jackpile Mine (or Jackpile-Paguate Mine),...
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  • The mine has been worked since the late 19th-century, with industrial mining of mica starting in 1927. Uranium was sought in the 1950s and the mine has...
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    Colorado plateau, and 9% from Canadian ores. Much of the mined ore from the Shinkolobwe mine had a uranium oxide content as high as 65% to 75%, which was many...
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    during the uranium boom from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Several uranium and vanadium mines were opened in the area, and a uranium processing mill...
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    In-situ leach mining methods also are used to mine uranium in the United States. In this technology, uranium is leached from the in-place ore through an...
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