Brin-l Digest, Vol 377, Issue 3

[William T Goodall]

On 3 May 2008, at 02:24, dsummersminet at comcast.net wrote:

>
> But, I have a buddy working on a uraninium minining detector project  
> in the
> US.  The market for uranium has come out of the doldrums of the last  
> 20+
> years, so folks are actually looking now.
>
> Last year, the US, for example, used about 25-30 tons of uranium for  
> its
> plants.  Canada alone has proven reserves of about 180k tons.  One  
> reserve
> (McCrthur River) is extremely high grade (26%), so the total amount  
> that
> needs to be mined to get the uranium is low. So, the local impact  
> would be
> far lower than the present local impact of coal mining.

So we don't really know how available some minerals are until we start  
looking for them harder?

Geology Maru

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