Sentences with phrase «pit uranium mines»
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.
These include specimens such as a meteorite fragment containing pre-solar grains, Saléeite crystals from the Ranger Uranium Mine in the Northern Territory, a 23 - million - year - old kauri log and a fossilised «sea lily» unearthed in a Brunswick clay pit in 1923.
He photographs sites that are essential to our worldwide energy consumption: open - pit mines, refineries, quarries, and uranium tailings.