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Smith Ranch and Highland are uranium mining operations located in Wyoming, U.S.A. They are separate permits, operated as a single operation, and have one central processing facility. The Smith Ranch-Highland operation is the largest uranium production facility in the United States. Smith Ranch and Highland are roll-front uranium deposits.
Wyoming uranium production. Uranium mining in Wyoming was formerly a much larger industry than it is today. Wyoming once had many operating uranium mines, and still has the largest known uranium ore reserves of any state in the U.S. At the end of 2008, the state had estimated reserves dependent on price: 539 million pounds of uranium oxide at ...
The Willow Creek mine is an in-situ leach (ISL) uranium mining project located in Powder River Basin in the state of Wyoming, United States.It comprises the Irigaray central processing plant and wellfields, and the Christensen Ranch ion exchange plant and wellfields.
Uranium Energy Corp. (AMEX:UEC) shares are trading higher on Monday. The company disclosed a deal to fully acquire Rio Tinto Plc‘s (NYSE:RIO) Wyoming assets for a purchase price of $175 million.
The Wyoming uranium mining industry was hard-hit in the 1980s by the drop in the price of uranium. The uranium-mining boom town of Jeffrey City lost 95% of its population in three years. By 2020, the only active uranium mine in Wyoming was the Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ leaching operation in the Powder River Basin, owned by Cameco. [107]
Copper Mountain is home to several mines, including those for uranium. [8] Three of the four uranium mines in Wyoming are still producing. The Arrowhead Mine on Copper Mountain produced around 500,000 pounds of Uranium in the 1960s and 70s. [9] Copper Mountain was also mined for iron, some of which were discovered in the 1950s. [10]
In 2013, a DEQ feasibility study estimated that it would cost Wyoming at least $4.5 million and 1o new staff to take over regulation of uranium and thorium mining. [33] The mining industry has pushed the state to take over, saying the Nuclear Regulatory Commission charges too much and moves too slowly.
Abandoned housing in Jeffrey City, Wyoming in 2011 Moab uranium mill tailings pile in 2010 Partially refined Yellowcake uranium oxide. A yellowcake boomtown also known as a uranium boomtown, is a town or community that rapidly increases in population and economics due to the discovery of uranium ore-bearing minerals, and the development of uranium mining, milling or enrichment activities.