The Senate has passed a pair of big tax breaks meant to help lure a proposed new $2 billion uranium enrichment complex to a site near the Idaho National Laboratory outside Idaho Falls.
Lawmakers voted 27 to 7 on Monday to extend a sales tax exemption for production equipment that handles nuclear fuel. They also voted […]
An agreement will soon be signed between South Australia and a Canadian province that will see a sharing of knowledge on uranium and other minerals.
The Primary Industries Department says the proposed collaboration is with Saskatchewan in central Canada, which has a similar geology to South Australia.
The Department’s geological survey manager, Mark McGeough, says a lot […]
City council in Moncton, N.B., voted unanimously Monday night to call on the province to ban all uranium exploration and mining in New Brunswick.
The councillors are particularly worried about uranium exploration on the outskirts of the city.
The mining giant Vale Inco (formerly known as CVRD-Inco) is exploring for uranium south and west of Moncton.
A smaller […]
The Senate has passed a pair of big tax breaks meant to help lure a proposed new $2 billion uranium enrichment complex to a site near the Idaho National Laboratory outside Idaho Falls.
Lawmakers voted 27 to 7 on Monday to extend a sales tax exemption for production equipment that handles nuclear fuel. They also voted […]
Ninety-four pages of proposed rules for uranium mining companies that need to obtain state groundwater permits were too much Wednesday for the South Dakota Water Management Board.
The panel had planned to make a decision on the rules but decided to delay it until a special meeting April 2-3 in Rapid City.
Board members want to know […]
United Uranium Corp. is pleased to announce that overburden drilling at our Peace River diamond joint venture (50% United Uranium Corp., 50% Star Uranium Corp.) in northern Alberta has begun. The drill program which has a budget of $375,000 is expected to be completed by the end of March 2008. Samples from the cuttings will […]
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management will open bidding for 19 parcels of land as uranium mining leases to the private sector on Friday, March 7.
These parcels, located in the Uravan Mineral Belt in southwestern Colorado, between the communities of Gateway and Egnar, will be leased for the exploration, development, and production […]
Uranium Resources, Inc. (NasdaqGM:URRE - News) (“URI”), a uranium exploration and mining company with resources in Texas and New Mexico, announced today that it has scheduled a teleconference and webcast for Monday, March 17, 2008, at 1:30 PM Eastern Time. The Company will issue its earnings release for the fourth quarter and year-end 2007 on […]
Star Uranium Corp. is pleased to announce that overburden drilling at our Peace River diamond joint venture (50% Star Uranium Corp., 50% United Uranium Corp.) in northern Alberta has begun. The drill program which has a budget of $375,000 is expected to be completed by the end of March 2008. Samples from the cuttings will […]
Energy companies with eyes on Labrador are getting nervous after a proposed moratorium on uranium mining on Inuit land passed first reading recently.
On March 5, a bill calling for a three-year moratorium on mining on Inuit land passed first reading at a meeting of the Labrador Inuit self-government, the Nunatsiavut assembly.
Already the bill is causing […]