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Technological Enhanced Radioactive Materials (TENORM)
Steve Brown, Chair of the CMA Uranium Committee, informed the committees that he had been retained by COGA to review the report drafted by Rule Engineering for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment pursuant to legislation passed last year. Steve offered the following commentary about the report as it pertains to mining:
The...
Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE American: UUUU; TSX: EFR) (“Energy Fuels” or the “Company”), a leading producer of uranium and vanadium in the United States, is pleased to provide the following update on the Company’s ongoing vanadium production programs.
The Highest Quality Vanadium Production in the History of the White Mesa Mill
Energy Fuels is currently producing a high-purity vanadium product at...
Legislative Update: Legislature in Final Quarter
Even as it continues to introduce new bills, the General Assembly approaches its final 32 days of the session. Controversial issues such as the “Red Flag bill” (a bill to remove guns from persons deemed a threat to themselves others), the complete remake of the state’s Oil and Gas regulatory structure (SB 181), a...
New York Times: "Opinion: Your Public Lands Are Killing You" — "Out in the way beyond, the open land on the far side of the Mueller report and cable news obsessives, is a vast kingdom now being used to hasten the demise of the planet.
"You may know this area, more than 500 million acres of empty vales and thick...
New data from the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety show Moffat County's Colowyo and Trapper coal mines mined more than 3.5 million tons of coal in 2018.
That doesn't include Twentymile Coal Company's Foidel Creek Mine in Routt County, which mined more than 3 million tons of coal by itself.
According to the data, Colowyo Coal Mine produced about...
Exports of Coal in the United States increased to 817 USD Million in January from 799 USD Million in December of 2016. Exports of Coal in the United States averaged 480.92 USD Million from 1996 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 1550 USD Million in April of 2012 and a record low of 104 USD Million in...
Production by Colorado coal mines last year dipped slightly from 2017 levels, with Arch Coal's West Elk Mine in the North Fork Valley continuing to be the most productive location in the state, according to recently released state data.
The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety says the state's six producing mines, all located in western Colorado, produced a...
Over the last year, the media have published story after story after storyabout the declining price of solar panels and wind turbines.
People who read these stories are understandably left with the impression that the more solar and wind energy we produce, the lower electricity prices will become.
And yet that’s not what’s happening. In fact, it’s the opposite.
Between 2009 and 2017, the price of solar...
AML funds improve coal communities and the lives of their residents
U.S. Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced the availability of the Fiscal Year 2019 Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Reclamation grants through the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement(OSMRE). This year’s grants will provide more than $291.2 million for states and tribes to reclaim and repurpose abandoned coal lands.
“These grants...