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Uranium mining in Australia - Wikipedia

The occurrence of uranium in Australia had been known since the 1890s. Uranium was produced as a bi-product of radium mining in South Australia at Radium Hill from 1906 and Mount Painter from 1911. A refinery at Hunter's Hill, Sydney processed the ore between 1911 and 1915 for radium bromide and uranium. The radium was used for medical research and the uranium used in ceramic and glass ...

Uranium in Western Australia - Wikipedia

In the 2000s, significant opposition to nuclear power and uranium mining saw a ban on mining for a period of time. The six-year Western Australian ban on uranium mining was lifted after the 2008 state elections, which saw the Australian Labor Party replaced in government by the Liberal Party of Australia.. Two uranium mining projects in the state are closer to production, the 750 tonne U 3 O 8 ...

Alligator Energy adds to South Australian uranium ...

Jun 11, 2020  Alligator Energy (ASX: AGE) will acquire a uranium resource in South Australia holding 46.6 million pounds of uranium oxide that has languished since its 2007 discovery. The company will issue 679.6 million shares to privately owned Samphire Uranium to acquire the Blackbush and Plumbush resources, with Samphire’s owners ending up with 32% of the expanded capital of Alligator.

The Australian anti-uranium movement

Hence Australian uranium is a very significant fraction of uncommitted, low-cost uranium on the world market. In 1974 in Australia, the general advisability of uranium mining was almost uniformly unquestioned in business and industry, government bureaucracies,

Australia's Uranium Uranium Mining in Australia - World ...

Uranium stocks guide: Here’s everything you need to know ...

Jan 05, 2020  Honeymoon is one of only four Australian mining operations of scale to have a uranium export permit. Vimy Resources (ASX:VMY) is advancing its “Mulga Rock” project, one of just three companies that have been allowed to go ahead with the development of their uranium mines in Western Australia. The company is currently waiting on secondary ...

Uranium mines harm Indigenous people – so why have we ...

May 01, 2019  Uranium mines across Australia have similar legacies, with decades of activism from the Mirarr people against the Ranger and Jabiluka mine sites in

Uranium Mining Companies Listed in Australia

Comprehensive list of Uranium companies listed in Australia, including company profiles, charts, stock quotes, news and user commentary. Uranium Mining Companies Listed in Australia ... (This site is formed from a merger of Mining Nerds and Highgrade Review.) ...

The long and controversial history of uranium mining in ...

Jul 14, 2015  Australia has about one third of the world's known uranium resources and mining goes back to 1906, when a small amount of uranium ore was taken from Radium Hill in South Australia

Mining in Australia - Wikipedia

Mining in Australia has long been a significant primary industry and contributor to the Australian economy by providing export income, royalty payments and employment. Historically, mining booms have also encouraged population growth via immigration to Australia, particularly the gold rushes of the 1850s. Many different ores, gems and minerals have been mined in the past and a wide variety are ...

Alligator Energy adds to South Australian uranium ...

Jun 11, 2020  Alligator Energy (ASX: AGE) will acquire a uranium resource in South Australia holding 46.6 million pounds of uranium oxide that has languished since its 2007 discovery. The company will issue 679.6 million shares to privately owned Samphire Uranium to acquire the Blackbush and Plumbush resources, with Samphire’s owners ending up with 32% of the expanded capital of Alligator.

North Queensland First leader Jason Costigan’s uranium ...

Radioactive contamination of ground and surface water, air and soil near a uranium mining site is also a great concern. Uranium mining has not taken place in Queensland since 1982 and has been ...

Uranium Council Department of Industry, Science, Energy ...

The Facts about uranium mining in South Australia [3.2MB PDF] Government of South Australia Response to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission (2016) [415KB PDF] Australia’s Identified Mineral Resources 2017 (Geoscience Australia, 2017) [23MB PDF]

Regulating Uranium Mining and Production

Oct 03, 2018  • ‘‘Social acceptability’’ of uranium mining – • Ranger Inquiry (Australia): 1975–77 Fox Report – ethics of mining, social and Aboriginal opposition • Matoush Project (Canada): 2013 Quebec government decision: inadequate social acceptability; moratorium on uranium exploitation

New Uranium Mining Projects - South Australia

Traditional owners back more uranium mining: The chairman of the Adnyamathana Traditional Lands Association says he will support greater mining of uranium on his community's land. An affiliate of Heathgate Resources, Quasar, lodged an application last month for a mining lease just north of the Beverley uranium mine in outback South Australia.

Australia's Uranium Mines - World Nuclear Association

In 2015 Boss Resources Ltd based in Perth bought Uranium One Australia, which owned the mine and asociated deposits, for A$11.5 million in staged payments plus up to $3 million from operating cash flow. Boss formed a joint venture with Wattle Mining Pty Ltd (Boss 80% and Wattle 20%) to take over Uranium One Australia.

Paladin strengthens case for uranium mine restart ...

Jun 30, 2020  Paladin Energy has moved closer towards the restart of the Langer Heinrich uranium mine in Namibia, Africa, which remains permitted to resume mining. The company has concluded an 18-month process ...

Uranium stocks guide: Here’s everything you need to know ...

Jan 05, 2020  Honeymoon is one of only four Australian mining operations of scale to have a uranium export permit. Vimy Resources (ASX:VMY) is advancing its “Mulga Rock” project, one of just three companies that have been allowed to go ahead with the development of their uranium mines in Western Australia. The company is currently waiting on secondary ...

Environmental impacts of uranium mining in Australia

placed on proposals for modern uranium mining in the relatively well-regulated Australian setting arguably squanders resources, media attention and supporter goodwill that would be better directed addressing the world’s genuine mining trouble-spots. In the past, uranium mining in Australia has certainly delivered some poor environmental impacts.

SA uranium miner Alliance Resources looks to snub its ...

ALLIANCE Resources is investigating building a $168 million uranium processing plant at Four Mile, as the stalemate between the project's joint venture parties shows no sign of resolution.

Occupational Radiation Protection in the Uranium Mining ...

It is a compilation of detailed information on uranium mining and processing stages and techniques, general radiation protection considerations in the relevant industry, general methodology applicable for control, monitoring and dose assessment, exposure pathways, and radiation protection programs for the range of commonly used mining and ...

Rio Tinto given go-ahead to clean up Ranger uranium mine ...

Jan 24, 2020  The mining giant Rio Tinto will be able to go ahead with a plan to clean up the Ranger uranium mine after admitting it intends to fully take over the mine’s operator, Energy Resources Australia ...

Movement Against Uranium Mining. (1976-) - People and ...

Encyclopedia of Australian Science: Established in the mid 1960s, the Movement Against Uranium Mining was a lobbying group against the mining of uranium in Australia. The Movement was also source of information for the Australian public on all nuclear issues. In 1994 the Movement reduced its activities to distributing information.

Uranium Geoscience Australia

The industry has been bolstered by bipartisan Commonwealth support for uranium mining, the lifting of bans on uranium mining in Western Australia and Queensland and the New South Wales Government's repeal of the ban on uranium exploration. Australia's identified uranium resources occur in the Northern Territory and all states except Victoria ...

North Queensland First leader Jason Costigan’s uranium ...

According to Geoscience Australia, Paladin Energy Ltd’s exploration for uranium in Queensland found prospective uranium deposits inland from Townsville, just north of Mt Isa, and in the Gulf of ...

Regulating Uranium Mining and Production

Oct 03, 2018  • ‘‘Social acceptability’’ of uranium mining – • Ranger Inquiry (Australia): 1975–77 Fox Report – ethics of mining, social and Aboriginal opposition • Matoush Project (Canada): 2013 Quebec government decision: inadequate social acceptability; moratorium on uranium exploitation

Uranium Council Department of Industry, Science, Energy ...

The Facts about uranium mining in South Australia [3.2MB PDF] Government of South Australia Response to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission (2016) [415KB PDF] Australia’s Identified Mineral Resources 2017 (Geoscience Australia, 2017) [23MB PDF]

Occupational Radiation Protection in the Uranium Mining ...

It is a compilation of detailed information on uranium mining and processing stages and techniques, general radiation protection considerations in the relevant industry, general methodology applicable for control, monitoring and dose assessment, exposure pathways, and radiation protection programs for the range of commonly used mining and ...

Rio Tinto given go-ahead to clean up Ranger uranium mine ...

Jan 24, 2020  The mining giant Rio Tinto will be able to go ahead with a plan to clean up the Ranger uranium mine after admitting it intends to fully take over the mine’s operator, Energy Resources Australia ...

Uranium mining and the Australian economy Green Left

How the income generated by uranium mining is distributed is indicated by analysing the principal payments by Ranger Uranium and Energy Resources of Australia over a

Movement Against Uranium Mining. (1976-) - People and ...

Movement Against Uranium Mining (MAUM) commenced as a group c.1976 to lobby against uranium mining in Australia. They also acted as one point in a network of anti-nuclear organisations which included Nuclear Free Australia and Friends of the Earth (FOE) who all cooperated on joint campaigns.

Uranium Geoscience Australia

The industry has been bolstered by bipartisan Commonwealth support for uranium mining, the lifting of bans on uranium mining in Western Australia and Queensland and the New South Wales Government's repeal of the ban on uranium exploration. Australia's identified uranium resources occur in the Northern Territory and all states except Victoria ...

uranium Archives - Australian Mining

The Western Australian Supreme Court of Appeal has overturned the Traditional Owner’s legal appeal against the approval of Cameco Australia’s Yeelirrie uranium mining proposal in the Northern ...

SA uranium miner Alliance Resources looks to snub its ...

ALLIANCE Resources is investigating building a $168 million uranium processing plant at Four Mile, as the stalemate between the project's joint venture parties shows no sign of resolution.

Uranium: How is it Mined?

Open Pit Mining. Open pit mining, also known as strip mining, is the removal of surficial soils and uneconomic rock to get at the ore below. Ore grades are normally less than 0.5%. This is type of mining is only possible if the uranium ore is near the surface (normally less than 400 ft).

Uranium, Mining and Hydrogeology SpringerLink

Subject of the book is Uranium and its migration in aquatic environments. The following subjects are emphasised: Uranium mining, Phosphate mining, mine closure and remediation, Uranium in groundwater and in bedrock, biogeochemistry of Uranium, environmental behavior, and modeling.

The long and controversial history of uranium mining in ...

Jul 14, 2015  Australia has about one third of the world's known uranium resources and mining goes back to 1906, when a small amount of uranium ore was taken from Radium Hill in South Australia

Uranium - Google Books

This book is the collection of papers from the latest International Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Conference (UMH VII) held in September 2014, in Freiberg, Germany. It is divided to five sessions: Uranium Mining, Uranium and Phosphates, Clean-up technologies for water and soil. Uranium and daughter nuclides and basic research and modeling.