[Uranium] Ressources, production et consommation mondiale

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Message par energy_isere » 17 janv. 2015, 21:43

a propos de Cigar Lake au Canada qui avait ouvert en avril 2014 ( voir viewtopic.php?p=359109#p359109 )
Cigar Lake to produce 3000-4000 tons of Uranium in 2015

January 14, 2015

Cameco expects that the Cigar Lake mine will produce between 6 and 8 million pounds of uranium oxide (2308 to 3077 tU) this year. The mine produced 340,000 pounds U3O8 in 2014, its first year of operations.

Cameco said it was providing its 2015 forecast for Cigar Lake production in order to co-ordinate with the disclosure of information by Denison Mines Corp.

Mining commenced at Cigar Lake in 2014. The proven and probable ore reserves at Cigar Lake are extremely large and very high grade. A 480-metre-deep underground mine was developed in very poor ground conditions – the orebody is actually in the soft Athabasca sandstone. Hence it uses ground freezing and remotely-controlled high pressure water jets at this level to excavate the ore. Known resources are 130,000 tonnes U3O8 at about 17% average grade, and with other resources the mine is expected to have a life of at least 30 years. Production is expected to ramp up to 8,200 t/yr U3O8 (7,000 tU/yr) over four years from late 2014.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/01/cigar- ... ns-of.html

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Message par energy_isere » 07 avr. 2015, 15:37

Areva signe un accord d’approvisionnement en uranium avec Texas Rare Earth Resources

07 Avril 2015 Usine Nouvelle

Selon les termes du contrat d'approvisionnement, Areva s'engage à acheter chaque année 136 tonnes de yellowcake à la junior texane Texas Rare Earth Resources, de 2018 à 2022.

Areva a signé un accord d’approvisionnement de 5 ans pour la fourniture de 136 tonnes annuelles de concentré d’uranium (U308) auprès de la compagnie minière (TRER), au cours du marché à la date de livraison. Cet accord prend Texas Rare Earth Resources effet en 2018, ou dès l’entrée en production du site de Round Top.

Selon ses études de faisabilité, la junior minière américaine Texas Rare Earth Resources, spécialisée dans les terres rares lourdes, compte parmi les co-produits de ses gisements des réserves estimées à un peu moins de 44 000 tonnes d’oxydes d’U308 (yellowcake), dont un peu plus de la moitié en réserves prouvées et probables.

Selon Jack Lifton, expert en terres rares et actionnaire de TRER, il s’agit du premier contrat d’approvisionnement significatif signé pour un co-produit sur un gisement de terres rares. "Nous avons pu attirer un champion de l’industrie nucléaire comme Areva grâce aux progrès du procédé métallurgique sur notre site de Round Top, qui s’appuie sur la technologie K-Tech de chromatographie par échange continu d’ions.", déclare-t-il sur le site spécialisé Investor Intel.

Au prix actuel du yellowcake (39,5 dollars la livre), ce contrat représente un engagement de 11,9 millions de dollars sur 5 ans.

http://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/ar ... es.N323450

La Round Top Mountain, c' est au Texas pas loin de la frontiére avec le Mexique :
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entrée Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Top_Mountain
Round Top Mountain is known for containing deposits of Beryllium as well as the largest deposit of heavy rare earth elements in the United States
Serait le plus gros gisement de terres rares des USA. Les premiers forages géologiques datent des années 1980.
Il y aura de l' Uranium en coproduit. Et également du Berylium.

Un peu de Lithium, Niobium et Tantale par dessus le marché !
90-95% of the rock consists of the minerals quartz and feldspar, which do not react to the leaching solution. The remaining 5-10% of the rock consists of fluorites fluorides such as yttrofluorite and cryolite. Urananite, thorite and coffinite are also present, which contain thorium (Th) and uranium (U). In the rock as a whole Th levels are approximately 179 ppm and U levels are approximately 45 ppm. The rock also contains Li-rich mica, and there is evidence of Be too, though it has yet to be determined just where in the mineral assemblage this element is located. Other accessory minerals include columbite (containing Nb and Ta) and zircon (containing zirconium and hafnium).
http://www.techmetalsresearch.com/2014/ ... p-project/


L' exploitant veut commencer ''petit'' avec seulement 100 millions de $ de CAPEX. (investissements).
Texas Rare Earth Resources targets lower than $100 Million CAPEX at Round Top Heavy Rare Earths project

Posted on September 9, 2014

Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp. has updated its operational strategy earlier this week in order to reduce operational costs, potentially lowering the initial CAPEX for the Round Top heavy rare earth project to USD$ 60-90 Million. The improved project economics rely on shifting the focus on the production of “a selected group of separated REE products in the range of 350-450 tonnes/year,” based on a mining rate of 2,500-3,500 tons of ore/day. The remaining rare earth elements that will not be separated immediately, according to the scalability based strategy, would be stored on site as a mixed REE product for future separation, based on demand. The idea is to allow the market to absorb the lower initial production rate and to establish TRER as a credible and alternative supplier to critical US industry sectors such as defense where reliable supply chains are essential.
http://investorintel.com/rare-earth-int ... s-project/

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Message par energy_isere » 30 mai 2015, 12:49

Nunavut: le projet de mine d'uranium d'Areva ne peut être évalué pour l'instant
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voir ce post viewtopic.php?p=376785#p376785

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Message par energy_isere » 30 mai 2015, 12:53

Projet d' exploitation d' Uranium au Paraguay, mine de Yuty, suite à une phase exploratoire terminée.
Uranium Energy’s Paraguay project advances to exploitation phase

29TH MAY 2015

One of US uranium producer and project developer Uranium Energy Corp’s (UEC’s) Paraguay projects has advanced from the exploration phase to the exploitation phase, making it only the third project to enter the exploitation phase since the current mining law was promulgated in 2007.

The NYSE MKT-listed company reported that its Yuty in situ recovery (ISR) project had received a signed resolution from the Ministry of Public Works and Communication (MOPC), the national agency that regulated mining in the country. During Yuty’s exploitation phase comprising a maximum of 20 years, plus one ten-year extension, the environmental licencing process could start, a key milestone required before starting production, as well as allowing for reductions in land and various investment costs. The Exploitation Phase is followed by the Production Phase which lasts for an indefinite period.
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http://www.miningweekly.com/article/ura ... 2015-05-29
Measured and Indicated Resource1 of 8.914 million pounds grading 0.052% U3O8 with an Inferred Resource of 2.226 million pounds grading 0.047% U3O8.
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http://uraniuminvestingnews.com/22090/u ... phase.html

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Message par energy_isere » 12 juin 2015, 21:31

Energy Resources of Australia (filiale de Rio Tinto) annule un projet d' extension de la mine d' Uranium de Ranger III dans le Nord de l' Australie.
Le marché de l' Uranium étant trop faible.


http://www.mining.com/rio-tinto-mulls-3 ... cancelled/
....ERA, in which Rio has a 68.4% stake, said on Thursday that it would not proceed with the final feasibility study of its Ranger 3 Deeps uranium project in Australia’s Northern Territory, citing weak market conditions....

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Message par energy_isere » 13 juin 2015, 13:29

La mine d' Uranium de Ranger III dans le Nord de l' Australie :

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http://www.afr.com/business/mining/rio- ... 612-ghmp9j


http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_d'uranium_Ranger
qui est déjà à jour de la news au dessus !

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Message par energy_isere » 04 sept. 2015, 19:51

encore de l' uranium au Canada.

Fission Uranium envisage une grosse mine à 1.1 milliards de $ d'investissements dans le Saskatchewan.

Fission Uranium sees $7 billion Saskatchewan mine

Frik Els | September 3, 2015 mining.

Fission Uranium Corp (TSE:FCU) shares opened more than 6% higher in brisk trading on Thursday after the explorer and developer released a much-anticipated study on its giant uranium discovery in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan.

Fission's preliminary economic assessment for its wholly-owned high-grade Triple R deposit at its Patterson Lake South property envisages a open pit–underground mine for an estimated capital outlay of $1.1 billion producing more than 100 million pounds of yellowcake over 14 years.

Fission estimates the hybrid approach utilizing a dyke system will result in operating expenditure of $14.02 per pound U3O8 over the life of mine, making Triple R potentially one of the lowest cost uranium producers in the world.

Spot uranium prices – usually much lower than long-term contract pricing which is the norm in the industry – were last assessed at $36.70. Fission's PEA assumes a long term price of $65 a pound for gross revenues over the life of the mine of $7.7 billion and net revenues of $7.1 billion after provincial royalties and transportation charges.

The $294 million company based in Kelowna, BC in July announced a proposed merger with Denision Mines to combine the richest uranium properties in the region on par with with the high-grade unconformity giants McArthur River, Cigar Lake and Phoenix.

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http://www.mining.com/fission-uranium-s ... ewan-mine/

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Message par energy_isere » 22 déc. 2015, 19:34

Une compagnie d'état Chinoise va acheter 20 % des parts de la compagnie canadienne Fission Uranium Corp. pour 59 millions de $ et ainsi pouvoir acheter jusqu'à 35% de la production d' Uranium de cette compagnie.
China Secures Canadian Uranium Supply Amid Nuclear Expansion

by Stephen Stapczynski December 22, 2015

China plans to take a stake in Fission Uranium Corp. that includes a supply deal allowing it to buy up to 35 percent of the Canadian mining company’s annual uranium production.

CGN Mining Co., a unit of state-owned China General Nuclear Power Corp., will invest C$82.2 million ($59 million) for a 19.99 percent stake in British Columbia-based Fission, which specializes in exploration and development of the Patterson Lake South uranium deposit in Canada’s Athabasca Basin.

“It signals to the market that China is still committed to nuclear energy as it continues to add investments in uranium as fuel, despite the poor global economy,” Rob Chang, managing director of metals and mining research for Canada at Cantor Fitzgerald LP, said by e-mail. “It’s China’s first foray into Canada, which marks a departure from most of its uranium supply investments, which have been primarily in the less stable African nations.”


China is aiming to have 58 gigawatts of nuclear-generating capacity by 2020. Of the 64 reactors currently under construction globally, 21 are in China, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

“China is the leader, by far, of new nuclear power plants,” Fatih Birol, executive director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, said during a briefing in Tokyo on Monday. “China is opening a new chapter in the nuclear industry.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... -expansion

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Message par energy_isere » 14 févr. 2016, 13:20

La compagnie Canadienne U3O8 s’intéresse à un gisement d' Uranium+Vanadium en Argentine dans la province de Chubut.
U3O8 aims to help meet Argentina's uranium demand

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Argentina has three nuclear reactors generating 10% of its electricity. The country restarted uranium enrichment at its Pilcaniyeu plant in early December, and has budgeted US$2 billion for building a fourth reactor in 2010.

U3O8 Corp.’s lead asset is the Laguna Salada uranium-vanadium project in Chubut province.

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The Guanaco and Lago Seco sectors of the Laguna Salada deposit host 6.3 million lb. U3O8 and 57.1 million lb. V2O5, based on indicated resources of 47.3 million tonnes grading 0.0060% U3O8 and 0.0550% V2O5. Inferred resources total 21 million tonnes at 0.0085% U3O8 and 0.0590% V2O5.

The company filed a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the project in 2014 that models a US$136-million operation that would produce 640,000 lb. uranium and 960,000 lb. vanadium annually over a 10-year mine life.

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http://www.northernminer.com/news/u3o8- ... 003755754/

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Message par energy_isere » 06 avr. 2016, 12:17

Le déficit d'extraction d'uranium se creuse

Par Myrtille Delamarche Usine Nouvelle le 05 avril 2016,

Les chiffres de la World Nuclear Association montrent que les 440 réacteurs nucléaires actifs dans le monde produisent 384 gigawatts (GW) et consomment presque 65 000 tonnes d’uranium, soit une consommation moyenne par gigawatt évaluée entre 155 et 170 tonnes de combustible nucléaire. La production, elle, atteint péniblement 60 000 tonnes, auxquelles il faut ajouter les stocks, entamés par le déficit de production depuis fin 2014, et l’uranium secondaire dont l’apport est estimé à 18 000 tonnes.

À quelque 30 dollars la livre d’octaoxyde de triuranium (U3O8), les prix ne réagissent qu’au marché spot, en léger excédent grâce aux stocks élevés sur un marché qualifié unanimement de plat. Les producteurs se plaignent de la difficulté à lever les financements nécessaires aux investissements qu’ils doivent réaliser dès maintenant pour répondre à la forte croissance de la demande d’ici à 2030.


Nouvelles mines et innovation

Le déficit se creuse. Dans le monde, 65 réacteurs (68 GW) sont en construction et 173 autres (182,5 GW) sont prévus d’ici à 2030. Cantor Fitzgerald estime le déficit de production à 25 millions de livres d’U3O8 en 2017, pour une demande de 198 millions de livres (presque 90 000 tonnes). En 2018, il atteindrait 40 millions de livres (20 % de demandes non assouvies par l’extraction). De quoi faire remonter les cours : Dundee Capital Markets les projette à 55 dollars en 2016, quand le point mort de l’investissement se situe plutôt entre 60 et 70 dollars.

La plupart des producteurs montent en cadence – c’est le cas de Cameco (+ 2 400 tonnes), d’Areva (+ 2 000 tonnes) et de Rio Tinto (+ 400 tonnes). La Namibie, quatrième producteur mondial, vient d’annoncer le triplement de sa production d’ici à 2017, à 11 000 tonnes, avec la montée en puissance de la mine d’Husab. De quoi concurrencer le Canada à la deuxième place du classement. D’autres parient sur l’innovation, comme Western Uranium aux États-Unis, qui industrialise son nouveau procédé métallurgique d’ablation pour séparer plus efficacement le métal des stériles et augmenter le rendement.
http://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/le ... se.N385922

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Message par energy_isere » 07 août 2016, 15:12

L' agence environementale Australienne rejette le projet de mine à ciel ouvert de CAMECO de Yeelirrie.
Le projet porte atteinte à la faune aquatique locale.
Cameco espérait retirer 7500 tonnes d' uranium par an

Australia's environmental agency rejects Cameco uranium mine plan

August 01

Australia’s environmental protection agency has scuppered Cameco’s Yeelirrie uranium mine proposal, announcing on Wednesday that the project fails to protect underground fauna. Chairman of the EPA Tom Hatton flagged up 3 groundwater species that would be particularly threatened should mining commence in the area.

Cameco, Canada’s largest uranium producer, has been quick to contest the ruling, arguing that the risks to Australia’s wildlife can be mitigated. The company announced in a press release that; “We believe that with further sampling and research, subterranean fauna can be appropriately managed Yeelirrie and we will work with government agencies and stakeholders to find a way forward.”

Analysts have taken a more skeptical tone on the project. Cantor Fitzgerald Equity Research has assigned no value to the project, concluding that the market will not see production from Yeelirrie any time soon. Cameco has been squeezed by the slumping uranium market in recent years, shifting its focus towards core assets in Kazakhstan and Canada. The company assured investors on Wednesday that: "Cameco believes the long-term fundamentals of the nuclear industry are strong and we are taking prudent steps to prepare our uranium projects for improved market conditions."

Yeelirrie is one of two projects in Western Australia owned by Cameco. The mining company bought the development four years ago for US$430 million in a deal with BHP Billiton. Cameco executives were planning to create two open pits on the site, processing facilities and infrastructure routes to transport the uranium oxide products. The Canadian company was planning to extract around 7,500 tonnes of uranium from the site per year. Yeelirrie is located roughly 650km from the city of Perth.

The project has faced opposition and protest from local aboriginal groups, many of whom view Yeelirrie as a sacred site. Cameco’s proposal, submitted to the EPA in 2014 was more ambitious that BHP’s original plan and would have attempted to mine a larger quantity of uranium over a shorter time period. Yeelirrie is estimated to contain roughly 49 thousand tonnes of uranium resources.

Cameco stock has been a headache for investors of late, sinking to 12 year lows at the end of July. The company reported Q2 losses of US$104 million as Japan has struggled to restart the majority of it nuclear generators following the Fukushima disaster back in 2011. There could be some relief in the uranium market over coming years however, as China and India forge ahead with plans for multiple nuclear reactor sites.
http://www.mining.com/australias-enviro ... mine-plan/

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Yeelirrie, near Wiluna, the site of Australia's largest uranium deposit.

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Message par Remundo » 08 août 2016, 09:12

je ne sais pas si cette vidéo a été postée

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv6j10RHhC4

Elle date de 2011 : Michael DITTMAR (de l'ETH Zürich, physicien des particules) s'exprime sur la probable pénurie d'uranium à venir dans les décennies futures.

Source : 2000Watt.org / interview de Laurent HORVATH

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Message par energy_isere » 05 janv. 2017, 19:39

Un peu d' Uranium au Brésil :
Work starts on Brazil's Engenho uranium mine

03 January 2017

Industrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB) has started work on its Engenho mine in Brazil's Bahia state. The company said the move was a "decisive step" towards resumption of domestic uranium production.

In a statement on 29 December, INB said it expects to have produced 73 tonnes of uranium concentrate - also known as yellow cake - within the next ten months. Work started on 22 December, two days after INB received a licence from nuclear energy commission CNEN.

INB says the Engenho site, consisting of three open-pit mines, has an estimated annual production capacity of 280-300 tonnes of uranium concentrate.

Laércio Aguiar da Rocha, INB's mineral resource director, said in the company statement that mining is scheduled to start in October. This is a first step, he added, towards making Brazil self-sufficient in uranium production. This goal includes, he said, the start-up in 2020 of the planned underground mine at Caetité, also in Bahia, and Santa Quitéria, in Ceará state.

INB announced in June last year that it expects to export its first enriched uranium under a contract signed with Argentine state company Combustibles Nuclear Argentinos SA. The agreement will see the export of four tonnes of uranium dioxide powder for use in the first fuel load for the Carem modular reactor.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/UF-Wo ... 11701.html

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Message par energy_isere » 05 janv. 2017, 19:44

Ouverture d' une mine d' Uranium en ESPAGNE ! Qui serait rentable même avec les prix bas actuels de l' Uranium. 100 millions $ d' investissements.
Berkeley Energia is opening a new mine in Spain

22 December 2016

An Australian-British company is breaking ground and breaking with the market, opening a new uranium mine in Spain despite a record-low price for the asset.

The mining company Berkeley Energia is opening a new mine in Salamanca, north-western Spain, three hours’ drive west of Madrid, aiming to uncover a wealth of uranium ore. The commodity is hardly in demand right now – indeed, there is global oversupply – but the move itself could not be better timed.

That’s because Berkeley Energia is betting on an expected rise in uranium prices that will be triggered by the current abundance of the nuclear fuel becoming a serious shortfall in the next few years.

With many of Europe’s reactors up for renegotiation on their fuel contracts and 60 new reactors planned in China in the coming years, demand is set to increase, and the Salamanca mine is the only one of its size coming online.

Indeed, the mine will be the biggest of its kind in Europe and will provide enough uranium to meet 10pc of Europe’s needs. Powered by US$100m of investment, the Salamanca project will provide 700 construction jobs as the mine comes online, and once fully operational will support 450 permanent staff and, it is hoped, 2,000 more indirectly.

Uranium exists in a highly cyclical market, with long cycle times. It is, as Paul Atherley, chief executive of Berkeley Energia, says, “one of the worst commodities in the world right now, and it’s not getting any better in the short to medium term”.

For much of the 1980s and 1990s, its spot price was below production cost for most of the industry, at around $10 per pound. The Euratom long-term contract price declined from around $30 per pound to $15 over the same period.

However, Mr Atherley says that change is on the horizon already, with new Chinese reactors and in Europe, “the biggest recontracturalisation ever will going on”.

Due to uranium’s price cycle, a lack of recent investment in new mining and production facilities and the retirement of old operations has kept investment in new supplies depressed. That means that 2016’s estimated oversupply of 10Mlb will become a shortfall of some 30Mlb by 2030.

The uranium at the Salamanca mine is readily accessible, and Mr Atherley says that operating costs of US$13.30 per pound of uranium make it one of the world’s lowest-cost producers, very economic even with the current spot price at 12-year lows of around $18 per pound.

Although the market remains subdued, prices look like they are just about to turn a corner, with the industry giant Cameco’s share price jumping 40pc in the past few weeks after a multi-year decline.

If predictions for future uranium demand materialise, Berkeley Energia really does appear to have a mine in the right place at the right time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/ura ... -in-spain/

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Message par energy_isere » 28 janv. 2017, 12:56

La production mondiale d’uranium devrait atteindre 76 493 tonnes en 2020, selon GlobalData

Agence Ecofin 27 janv 2017

Selon un rapport de la firme de recherche GlobalData, la production mondiale d’uranium évoluera à un taux de croissance annuel composé de 4,3%, pour atteindre 76 493 t en 2020. La firme explique ses prévisions par la croissance prévue de la demande de nouveaux réacteurs.

En 2017, la consommation mondiale d’uranium devrait augmenter de 5% pour atteindre 88 500 tonnes d’oxyde. Elle devrait croître au cours des deux prochaines années, du fait de l’expansion prévue de la capacité nucléaire en Chine, en Inde, en Russie et en Corée du Sud. Pour satisfaire cette demande croissante, les producteurs d’uranium devront améliorer leur production. Le pari n’est cependant pas gagné d’avance car en 2015, la production d’uranium des Etats-Unis a chuté de 32%, tandis que celle de la Namibie a baissé de 20%.

« Cela est dû à des baisses respectives de 33% dans les mines Smith Ranch-Highland et Crow Butte aux États-Unis, de 20% et 13,6% aux mines Rossing et Langer Heinrich en Namibie », explique Cliff Smee, responsable de la recherche et de l’analyse minière chez GlobalData.

La Namibie est actuellement le 4ème producteur mondial d’uranium.
http://www.agenceecofin.com/etude/2701- ... globaldata

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