Orano has announced it is lodging a second arbitration procedure against the State of Niger following its loss of operational control of SOMAÏR, the operator of the Arlit uranium mine. ; ...

EU imports of uranium from Russia rose by more than ... prevented it from exporting the output from the Somaïr mine, near Arlit, in the Sahara Desert. And even after the sanctions were lifted ...

and was forced in October to halt production at its Arlit mine due to financial pressures. Niger has stopped payments of its debt as joint venture partners since the coup and blocked uranium ...

The public lands surrounding Grand Canyon National Park contain high concentrations of uranium ore. Mining bores deep into vertical rock formations called “breccia pipes,” making uranium soluble to ...

France’s Orano Group has announced the filing of a second arbitration procedure against Niger at the International Centre for ...

Resource developers in Nova Scotia are all abuzz over the possibility of opening the province to uranium mining given recent encouraging remarks from Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston. The province ...

A mine worker walks on the residual dump at the Cominak mine near Arlit on March 8 ... led Niger had taken "operational control" of its uranium mining unit in the African country [Plumpia De ...

Patent Pending. At week’s end, nobody knew how much uranium was in Nowata County—or whether Sam Shepherd might have discovered a practical method of mining uranium by waterflood and filter.

Those fears have only grown the past couple years as nuclear power came back in vogue and sparked a uranium rush in mining camps all across the Southwest. So when the news made it to Nygren that ...