Interdepartmental Commission has visited uranium deposit and measured the background radiation level, YurAsia company reported. The radiation background in the camp ranges from 30 to 72 micro-roentgens per hour, and at the quarry – 75 micro-roentgens per hour. The radiation background rose to 130 micro-roentgens per hour at the mining site. After the completion of…
Head of the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use, Emil Osmonbetov, suggested residents of Ton district of Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan to join the commission that would work at the uranium deposit. He stated this at a meeting with the villagers. Last weekend, an on-site meeting of members of the interdepartmental commission to…
Collecting of signatures under a petition, demanding to ban development of Tash-Bulak uranium deposit in Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, started on social networking sites. The author of the petition is some Alena Khromenko. She invites everyone to sign the petition on a special site. As of today, 7,495 people have signed the petition with the…
Civil activists have held a flash mob “We are against uranium” near the monument to Urkuya Salieva in Bishkek. Organizer of the event was Ak-Zhol Ytymagi Public Foundation. Director of the foundation told reporters that he did not trust the company that wanted to develop Tash-Bulak uranium deposit in Issyk-Kul region. The activist demanded from…
Residents of Ton district in Issyk-Kul region demand to stop exploration of Tash-Bulak uranium deposit, local activist Akzholtoi Tukunov reported. According to him, the villagers have met with representatives of the government and local executive authorities. “They, of course, assure that the development of uranium will not harm neither the environment nor the people, but…
Central Asian Uranium Company will invest in Kara-Balta Mining Plant OJSC (KBMP) and uranium mining at Kyzyl-Ompol deposit. Representative of Russian shareholders Andrey Akimov, General Director of KBMP Daniyar Isakov and Vladimir Popov, the main shareholder of the Central Asian Uranium Company, announced at the Kyrgyz-Russian Interregional Conference. According to them, with the support of…
The investment project “Novokonstantinovskaya mine. Manufacturing capacities development” will help decrease the dependence of the domestic nuclear energy on foreign suppliers of uranium products. The project will also improve the efficiency of uranium oxide concentrate manufacture by VostGOK. In particular, the mine will increase extraction from 200 to 500 thousand tons per year, and the…
The development of the Khokhlovskoye deposit will help Dalur keep its uranium output on the present level. The work started in 2013. In 2015 a local sorption site was put into operation. Soon construction of a railroad base will start not far from the central node of the deposit. (Ukrainian metal)