Sentences with phrase «increasing uranium mining»
«Protecting the Colorado River's water quality is of paramount importance and, as such, the potential for degradation of Colorado River water quality through increased uranium mining in the Grand Canyon area is an issue of concern to the Partnership.»
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In addition, only about one tenth of the mined uranium ore is converted into fuel in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plants.
Surging energy markets magnify these threats as the pressure to increase uranium exploration and mining mounts throughout the West.
From our early blogs about the increase in uranium mining here in the U.S. (which has just as much merit today with our country's ever - rising energy prices as it did back in 2008) to our more recent blogs, uranium mining is something we've been watching for quite some time.
The higher uranium price reflects the need to move to ever deeper mines, which increases the energy needed to extract the ore, and the shift to lower - grade ore.
Stoked by a large increase in global demand for metals, mining companies are staking thousands upon thousands of claims for gold, copper, uranium and other metals.
Saskatchewan's economy is «humming along» with oil and gas activity, uranium and potash mining and agriculture, says the company, but out - migration to Alberta has increased in the past year.