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…
Dalur is leading among the mining companies of Rosatom in uranium output. According to the company CEO Nikolai Poponin, in 2017 Dalur is expected to produce 592.3 tons of yellow cake, up by 0.1% YoY. The company has drilled 242 shafts and its reserves have increased by 667 tons of uranium. “We have improved the…
In January-October Kazakhstan produced 19.2 thousand tons of uranium, down by 5.5% YoY. According to the Ministry of Energy press-service, in 2016 uranium output totaled 24 thousand tons, in 2015 – 23.8 thousand tons. Kazakhstan is the world leader in natural uranium mining. (Ukrainian metal)