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Radioactivity & Mining Newsletter 10-2023
Dear Reader,
Here's your monthly overview of relevant news in Policy and Technology. Developments in these - often interdependent - categories can be essential for mining/processing projects and operations affected by Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material: Uranium, Rare-Earths or any other potentially affected commodity like Phosphates, Tantalum/Niobium etc. - if associated with NORM.
We're particularly happy having accompanied the Jordan Uranium Mining Company (JUMCO) on their IAEA-supported scientific visit, agreeing on support of NORM management including various process engineering solutions; see our project note.
Feel free to forward this Newsletter to further specialists. We aim to publish the next issue in about a month - provided sufficient relevant content to be linked to will be available. Enjoy reading!
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Dr. Hagen Gunther Jung |
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Defense Metals positioned Wicheeda as one of North America’s most advanced REE projects, establishing, the tonnage and grades necessary to proceed forward into prefeasibility.
The first batch mined at the Eastern Mining and Enrichment Plant in Ukraine has been sent to Cameco in Canada where it will be converted into natural uranium hexafluoride.
Rare earth mines in Myanmar, one of the world's top sources of the critical elements, are still suspended and have not received notice on when they can reopen.
Remediation at legacy sites in Uzbekistan is under way, bolstered by a grant from the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA).
The Greenland Ministry of Mineral Resources and Justice has made a final decision refusing the application or an alternative exploitation licence.
Orano is halting the processing of uranium ore at one of its facilities in Niger because international sanctions against the military junta are hampering logistics.
Energoatom and ConverDyn signed a confidentiality agreement and memorandum of understanding relating to uranium conversion.
While Malaysia’s government has raised concerns about the radiation levels, Lynas furnished two reviews by the IAEA that found the plant to be low risk and compliant with regulations.
Iran slows uranium production after secret diplomacy (Mining.Com)
Iran slowed production of near weapons-grade uranium. It also diluted more than 5% of its highly-enriched inventory and paused to reconfigure centrifuges enriching to high purity levels. |
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Energy Resources of Australia, Rio Tinto’s majority-owned uranium unit, on Tuesday forecast a material cost overrun and delays related to the rehabilitation of its Ranger mine.
Vietnam is planning to reopen its biggest rare earths mine amid ambitious plans to dent China’s dominance in a sector that is key to tech production around the globe.
LCM is the only company in the Western world commercially producing both highly specialized strip-cast alloys and all of the required rare earths needed.
Several large-scale developments in exploration and processing are planned, the net impact of which will be to increase rare earth mining in Western Australia.
Orano revealed plans to extend enrichment capacity at its Georges Besse II uranium enrichment plant. Separately, the company is "reorganising" work at its Niger operations.
This validates Rainbow’s process flow sheet to recover rare earths from phosphogypsum. |
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Project Note: Scientific Visit of JUMCO
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GeoEnergy Consult is particularly happy having accompanied the Jordan Uranium Mining Company (JUMCO) on their IAEA-supported scientific visit, agreeing on support of managing NORM.
This will include (through our process engineering partner) solutions like processwater purification/re-cycling as well as optimization of the process flowsheet towards reduction of chemicals consumption and enhanced by-product utilization. |
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About GeoEnergy Consult
Throughout a project's life-cycle GeoEnergy Consult supports Operators, Investors or Regulators in managing Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) – from planning over operation until closure.
We provide Technology Consulting [Radiation Safety, Environmental Impact Asssessment/ Radioecological Monitoring, Waste/Residues Management, Decontamination, Decommissioning/Remediation] as well as Strategic Consulting [Document/Data Review, Feasibility Assessment, Permitting Support, Stakekeholder Engagement, Policy Support, Compliance Verification/Auditing] – from conceptualization on and optionally including engineering/realisation of developed solutions.
Should any question arise feel free to contact us. |
| The opinions stated in the linked news are not necessarily those of GeoEnergy Consult or its staff/partners. In case of any illegal or unethical content we distance ourselves from that. |
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