Cameco restarts Cigar Lake uranium mine
Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) announced Wednesday its Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan has resumed production activities following a temporary suspension due to…
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Niger junta seeks uranium buyer
Niger is struggling to find a buyer for a large stockpile of nationalized uranium while trying to keep it out of militant hands after a…
Niger returns Orano uranium, Mali renews Barrick licence as Sahel states adjust
Military governments in Africa’s troubled Sahel region are taking separate steps that may ease concerns over resource nationalism. Niger plans to return uranium to France’s…
Generals join critical-mineral boardroom arms race
Critical-mineral juniors are snapping up retired U.S. military leaders to help win Washington funding, echoing a playbook uranium producers pioneered years ago when they recast…
US awards $2.7B in uranium enrichment orders
The United States Department of Energy awarded contracts worth $2.7 billion (C$3.7 billion) to three companies in a bid to boost domestic uranium enrichment capacity…
Niger coup does little to move uranium price
The global uranium industry is bracing for potential fallout from a recent military coup in Niger, accounting for about 5% of global nuclear fuel production….
IsoEnergy assays 20%+ uranium oxide at Larocque East property in Athabasca Basin
IsoEnergy (TSXV: ISO; US-OTC: ISENF) received high-grade assays of 20.4% uranium oxide over 6.5 metres, including 34.5% over 3.5 metres from the Hurricane zone at…
JV Article: Trench Metals summer drill program explores for uranium in Athabasca Basin
Trench Metals (TSXV: TMC) expects its first assay results from the Gorilla Lake uranium project in the Cluff Lake area of Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin before…
Orano reports mining and nuclear services contract growth
French-based uranium miner and nuclear fuels services provider Orano says it has bagged several new uranium mining and front-end services contracts worth more than US$450…
Cameco, Orano suspend Saskatchewan operations due to COVID-19
Uranium companies Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) and Orano Canada are suspending mining and processing activities at their operations in northern Saskatchewan due to COVID-19. The…
Top-10 large, high-grade uranium projects
Uranium companies have been awaiting a price recovery since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor disaster in March 2011. Since early 2016 the spot uranium price…
High Power Exploration raises US$88 million
Robert Friedland’s High Power Exploration (HPX) has closed a US$88-million equity investment from an undisclosed U.S.-based institutional investor that will allow the privately held company…