When Walter Lange, whose great-grandfather founded the company, objected, he was given a choice: Submit or be sent to work in a uranium mine.
They want tighter monitoring of the uranium mine and its operations.
Both attacks -- at the army barracks in Agadez in central Niger and a Somair uranium mine in Arlit in northern Niger -- happened about 5 a.m.
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Physicists know this because of the unusual amounts of different types of uranium and other elements in the area, which was used by France as a uranium mine.
Uranium-mine production has risen sharply in recent years, mainly as a result of rapidly growing production in Kazakhstan, which has overtaken Canada as the world's biggest uranium producer.
Yes, the run-ups on some industry stocks make them pricey: Canada's Cameco, which does everything from mine uranium to run plants, trades at 68 times trailing earnings.
Yes, the run-ups on some industry stocks make them pricey: Canada's Cameco, which does everything from mine uranium to run plants, trades at 60 times trailing earnings.
Inwentash and Pinetree, indirectly, also own stakes in Mega Uranium, which aspires to mine the stuff.
Even if the strong dollar hurts Penrice's profits, the mining boom does have some benefits: the company sells some of its soda ash to miners, such as Uranium One, which will mine the metal in South Australia and export it, probably to Japan and elsewhere.
The company said it continues to make progress on its troubled Cigar Lake mine, which is sitting on one of the richest uranium deposits in the country.
It promises that all the countries can share Antarctica and that nobody can mine it, even though studies suggest there could be gold, uranium and oil beneath the ice.
Last year, after uranium prices had fallen from their highs, UEC was able to buy a processing plant and another mine near its existing holdings.
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