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Radioactivity & Mining Newsletter 9-2023
Dear Reader,
Here's your monthly overview of relevant news in Policy and Technology. Developments in these - often interdependent - fundamental 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 Phosphate, Tantalum/Niobium etc. - if associated with NORM.
We’re pleased to give a presentation on Decommissioning and Potential Remediation of Uranium and Rare-Earths Projects at the ICEM 23 conference (4-6.10.23, Stuttgart/Germany). Importance should be given to such tasks not just when operations approach their closure phase as demonstrating respective capability through a Preliminary Closure Plan can be already precondition for getting mining or processing projects permitted.
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!
Best regards,
Dr. Hagen Gunther Jung |
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COMINAK a mis place l’un des meilleurs plan de réhabilitation et de fermeture de site minier. Le budget alloué pour la mise en œuvre de ce plan s’élève à 95 milliards de FCFA.
Lynas has sped up construction at Kalgoorlie amid worries that a facility in Malaysia may have to be partly wound down after regulators there raised concerns about radiation levels.
NexGen Energy completed the Provincial Environmental Assessment review of the Final Provincial Environmental Impact Statement to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment.
Australia is in the race to develop alternative supplies to China’s dominance of the supply and processing of rare earths that are critical to the global economy and to national security.
Sweden accounts for 80% of the European Union’s uranium deposits and currently engages in uranium extraction as a byproduct during the mining of other metals.
The current circumstances in Niger could delay the Dasa project by up to 12 months, but it is expected to be able to resume dialogue with the country's Ministry of Mines.
Disposal of historical mine waste derived from uranium mining still presents a challenge for the regulatory authorities and for the people who live nearby. Progress is slow but is evident.
Plans of Lynas to build a U.S. refinery with a Texas-based partner have collapsed. MP was commissioning refining equipment near its California mine that has so far not succeeded.
Current events in Niger mean world attention is turning to the West African uranium-producing country. Here is an overview of Niger's uranium sector.
Lynas has had its US government funding more than doubled as the Biden administration accelerates its mission to secure supplies of rare earths.
INB signed a contract with Amazul to provide engineering services for the 2nd phase of the uranium enrichment plant at INB's nuclear fuel factory in Resende. |
See here how GeoEnergy Consult manages NORM. |
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Foam decontamination is used at various stages during the life cycle of a nuclear facility – in operation and in decommissioning – by selecting the optimal foam composition.
While tailings are part of mining and processing, they may contain valuable metals such as lithium, cobalt, various rare earth elements, tungsten, phosphate and other critical metals.
Testing has been completed of the 2nd full-scale laser system module by Australia's Silex Systems for the Global Laser Enrichment's commercial pilot demonstration facility in the USA.
Researchers developed a new mussel-inspired nanocellulose coating that has a "remarkable, even surprising" ability to recover rare earths from industrial wastewater.
Earlier in August, Eslami said Iran had managed to produce derivatives of heavy water, marking its latest achievement in the nuclear industry.
The construction of the Australian project is nearing completion along with the plant commissioning scheduled to begin during the September quarter.
Development of Rare Earth Separation Capabilities in Utah (Energy Fuels) Enhancing existing solvent extraction (SX) circuits began to have the capacity to produce roughly 800 to 1,000 MT of separated neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) oxide per year.
Honeymoon Achieves Project Milestone (Boss Energy) Adoption of IX technology will enable highly efficient capture, concentration, and purification of the uranium from the wellfields.
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We’re pleased to give a presentation on
Decommissioning and Potential Remediation of Uranium and Rare-Earths Projects
at ASME's renowned International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management (ICEM 23, 4-6.10.23, Stuttgart/Germany).
Importance should be given to such tasks not just when operations approach their closure phase as demonstrating respective capability through a Preliminary Closure Plan can be already precondition for getting mining or processing projects permitted. |
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 Assessment, 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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