Uranium Recovery from Waste Materials

(last updated 5 Feb 2016)

Contents:

• Gold and/or uranium mill tailings
• Copper tailings
• Monazite tailings
• Coal ash
• Other waste material

Gold and/or uranium mill tailings

• Blyvooruitzicht tailings project (South Africa)
• Buffelsfontein tailings project (South Africa)
• Rand Uranium Co. tailings project (formerly Harmony tailings project) (South Africa)
• Gold Fields' Witswatersrand tailings (South Africa)
• East Rand tailings Joint Venture project (South Africa)
• West Rand tailings project (South Africa)
• Príbram uranium mine waste dump project (Czech Republic)
• Mailuu-Suu tailings reprocessing project (Kyrgyzstan)
• Tajikistan uranium mill tailings reprocessing project

Copper tailings

• UCIL proposes uranium recovery from copper tailings in Jharkhand (India)

Monazite tailings

• India eyes thorium and uranium recovery from monazite tailings

Coal ash

• Ajka coal ash project (Hungary)
• Yunnan coal ash project (China)

Other waste material

• Alternate feed processing at White Mesa Mill (Utah)
• Proposed alternate feed processing at Sweetwater uranium mill (Wyoming)

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