Sentences with phrase «open pit uranium»
RECENTLY - LISTED local mining junior Bannerman Resources has entered into an agreement to acquire the majority rights to a uranium exploration portfolio situated in the southern African nation of Namibia in an area close to the world's largest open pit uranium mines.
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Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.
REE mining usually includes open pit mining, which is a source of three major contaminants: radionuclides (including thorium and uranium), dust, and metals.
The maze of open pits, waste piles, processing plants, at Krasnokamensk is the last major uranium mine still operating in Russia.
The «new RECA» expands the universe of workers eligible for federal compensation to include open - pit uranium miners, uranium millworkers and ore - hauling truck drivers; expands the list of compensatory illnesses and causes of death to include several cancers in addition to lung cancer, certain nonmalignant respiratory diseases, and diseases of the kidney.
He photographs sites that are essential to our worldwide energy consumption: open - pit mines, refineries, quarries, and uranium tailings.