Australian uranium junior White Canyon Uranium announced this morning that it has been granted final approvals to mine their uranium deposits at its 100% owned Daneros Mine in southeastern Utah. [top, location of Daneros and other uranium prospects in southeastern Utah. Credit, White Canyon Uranium.]The company' s news release said, "Final mining approvals were granted by the Bureau of Land Management and the State of Utah today, 27 May 2009, just 15 months after the company’s IPO and its listing on the Australian Stock Exchange in March 2008."
Ore from the underground operation is expected to be processed at Denison’s White Mesa Uranium Mill at Blanding, 60 miles to the east. [bottom, drilling on the Daneros ore body. Credit, White Canyon Uranium]
It's expected to be one of only a few uranium mines in the world to go into production in 2009. First production is expected by September.
I expect that mining and environmental interests will be examining this closely, given the controversy over uranium exploration in the Arizona Strip, just south of the Utah border.
HERE WE GO AGAIN. JUST WHAT WE NEED MORE RADIOACTIVE WASTE FROM ANOTHER MINING PROJECT.... DANEROS SHOULD WATCH THE MOVIE "ON THE BEACH" AND POSSIBLY GET THE HINT WE DON'T NEED MORE URANIUM. WE NEED THE NEWER FORMS OF ENERGY LIKE WIND AND SOLAR POWER AND WAVE POWER..........
ReplyDeleteSoutheastern Utah is the last unspoiled spot in the country and you are doing WHAT??! I will not invest in your degradation.
ReplyDeleteDid Bush get this thru at the last minute? Shame on UTAH
Not just Bush, Obama is pushing uranium mining too.
ReplyDeleteDr. Chu came to Chatham,Virginia acting like he was here to talk about biofuel!
We are fighting the state of Virginia to stop uranium mining in Virginia, 50 miles north of Raleigh, NC!
Chu wants to renew Nuke Power, he is a nuke, has made the first nuclear bomb since the cold war!