Co-owner of the ATB, a major retail network, Gennadiy Butkevich has become a major owner of the Nuclear Energy Systems of Ukraine LLC, which in 2017 obtained a right to develop 4 uranium deposits. Butkevich now owns 83.4% in the company. NESU has the licenses to develop Safonovskaya and Mikhailovskaya uranium fields in Nikolayev region,…
Currently, Kazatomprom JSC develops 14 of 56 explored deposits with balance reserves of uranium, the company reported. Today the company, which is the world’s largest producer of natural uranium, is engaged in mining in the Turkistan, Kyzylorda and Akmola regions. “All uranium products of Kazatomprom are exported. Over the past months of this year, the…
In January-November the Republic of Buryatia extracted 784.3 tons of uranium, up by 26% YoY. In 11 months of 2017, 580.3 tons of uranium were mined. Khiagda is developing 2 uranium deposits in the republic. By 2020 it intends to have commissioned another deposit. And after that it will start developing 4 more deposits. (Ukrainian…
Urangeo, a part of the state holding Rosgeologia, has started prospecting works for uranium at the Kuldur field of the Khingan plateau. The corresponding state contract was signed between Rosgeologia and the Department of subsoil use of the Far East Federal District in July. The work will be carried out in the Arkharinsky district of…
Brazil is eager to continue supplying Kazakh uranium ore concentrate, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Brazil Kairat Sarzhanov said at a briefing in Astana on October 31. He reminded that the list of products exported from Kazakhstan to Brazil had been updated and now included uranium ore concentrate. In April Kazatomprom won a…
Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the United Nations Makhmadamin Makhmadaminov spoke about the risks of uranium waste and called for assistance in the reclamation of uranium waste, according to the information department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan. Makhmadamin Makhmadaminov spoke at the event “People and the Planet: Central Asia…
PPGHO named after Slavsky has started constructing a foundation pit for the mine water treatment plant. By the end of the year contractors have to make foundations of the auxiliary buildings and structures. The contracts for the delivery of the main machinery (pumps, transformers, conditioners, etc.) have already been concluded. The facility is to be…
The Rusburmash Company has finished drilling to carry out prospecting works at the Kolichikanskoye deposits in the Republic of Buryatia. The start of the uranium mining is scheduled for 2020. This is the fourth deposit to be developed by Khiagda. At present the company is developing Khiagdinskoye and Istochnoye deposits, as well as carrying out…
Uzbekistan intends to expand the supply of uranium concentrate to India in the near future, Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Sukhrob Kholmuradov said opening the meeting of the eleventh Uzbek-Indian intergovernmental commission. Uzbekistan is also ready to expand direct supplies of non-ferrous and rare-earth metals, cable and wire products. Kholmuradov stressed that the parties had…
In January-June Hiagda overfulfilled its uranium-mining plan by 5%.
At the same time, thanks to the measures to improve manufacturing efficiency the company was able to decrease prime cost of the products by 8%.
This year the company intends to construct a high-voltage line and a road to the Kolichikanskoye deposits. (Ukrainian metal)
Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company (NAC) Kazatomprom JSC has delivered over 3,100 tons of uranium to the British Yellow Cake company, says the message posted on the website of NAC Kazatomprom JSC. “Following the successful floatation of Yellow Cake plc, NAC Kazatomprom JSC is pleased to confirm that its long-term supply contract with Yellow Cake, which…
The State Duma will provide 950 million rubles from the federal budget for the construction of the mine No. 6 of Priargunskoye Mining and Chemical Enterprise in Zabaikalye region. The enterprise will receive the money for the uranium mine construction within the program on the investment projects in Baikal region. By the end of 2021…
Yellow cake, or ammonium polyuranite, is the end product of enterprises, which mine uranium by ways of in-situ recovery – Dalur and Khiagda. The only drawback of this technique is the high moisture of the product (up to 30%). Later the yellow cake is processed into the triuranium octoxide with the minimum moisture. Priargunsky Manufacturing…
Kazakhstan’s national company Kazatomprom delivered the first batch of uranium to Brazil, the company’s press service said in a message. “The National Atomic Company of Kazakhstan is expanding the geography of its products supply on the world nuclear fuel market. Kazatomprom JSC won an international tender for the supply of natural uranium concentrates for the…
“To solve the problems of Mailuu-Suu uranium legacy, we need to take long-term preventive measures and carry the tailings and dumps over,” the European Parliament Deputy Michele Rivasi declared. According to her, if nothing is done now, then, when the natural cataclysm will occur in the next few years, all harmful substances will be washed…
Kyrgyzstan considers it important to adopt a new UN resolution on the problems of uranium tailings, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Kubatbek Boronov stated on May 17. According to him, a number of large tailing dumps in Kyrgyzstan and other countries of the region are located near the rivers, which are the…
A delegation of the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency has arrived in Kyrgyzstan to study uranium heritage sites in Mailuu-Suu town, Jalal-Abad region. It is expected that experts will visit the tailing dumps in Ailampa-Sai, Kulmen-Sai, Koy-Tash valleys, as well as tailing dumps Nos. 6, 20 and 21. The specialists will be…
The reserves of the Dobrovolnoye uranium deposits developed by Dalur are estimated at 7067 tons. Its gradual commission will allow the company to increase output by 2025 to 600 tons per year. Payments to budget will total 25 billion rubles, and some 350 jobs will be created for the locals. The average salary at the…
Kara-Balta mining plant may start working in the near future, the Mining and Metallurgical Trade Union reported. According to it, the management of the plant agreed with Canadian investors on cooperation in the development of uranium deposits Tash-Bulak and Kyzyl-Ompul. Thanks to this, it will be possible to significantly increase production volumes and reach profits.…
The Russia-China Investment Fund for Regional Development on March 12 signed an agreement to become a co-investor of construction of a 18.5 billion ruble uranium mine of Priargunsky Industrial Mining and Chemical Union, part of state nuclear power corporation Rosatom’s unit Atomredmetzoloto. The company plans to launch the first stage of the mine in 2023.…
Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, a unit of the Russian nuclear fuel producer TVEL, exported more than 300 kilograms of metal uranium to France in 2017, Alexander Yevseyev, the plant’s director for production, said on February 13. “This is the first delivery within a large contract. The client was satisfied, and we will continue cooperation,” he…
Tajikistan is prospecting for uranium not to resume mining, but to evaluate the reserves. “This does not mean we will return to uranium mining”, the director of Main geology department at the government Zarobiddin Fayzullozoda said. “Uranium was actively processed on the territory of Tajikistan under the Soviet Union. The work on prospecting started in…
Rosatom has decided to unite on the basis of its trading house the Tekhsnabexport company (Tenex, which exports processed uranium to NPPs) and its foreign trading in natural uranium, previously conducted by Uranium One. The decision was taken in late 2017. At the same time last summer U1 intended to actively develop its own trading,…
In 2017 the uranium holding ARMZ mined 3 thousand tons of uranium, having 100% fulfilled its annual target. In particular, its Khiagda enterprise obtained 693 tons of uranium. It is expected that the company will reach the project capacity of 1 thousand tons per year in 2019. Dalur retained its output volume and extracted 592…
In 2017 Khiagda is expected to sell 693 tons of uranium, while in 2008 it sold just 60 tons. For the next year the company has the same goals: further decrease of the prime cost of the products and the manufacturing processes. At the same time it also has new challenges: improve efficiency, increase output…
Kazakh company Kazatomprom has delayed its delivery of uranium to Iran as it is seeking the permission of six world powers involved in the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal. Galymzhan Pirmatov, Kazatomprom’s chairman, was quoted by Financial Tribune daily as saying that the delivery of uranium concentrate to Iran could be possible only after obtaining permission…