Uranium24 Oct 2024 14:33
What happened to all the Uranium mania on X ? The AI Google & Amazon hype lasted about 2 days, now Orano are shutting down Somair in Niger but no one seems bothered because the spot price isn't moving, will we get a couple of days of bullish sentiment if Putin bans all Uranium exports to the West? We've been hearing the supply deficit story for years, yet to see it come to a head though.
As for Tiris it's as easyp says, the deposit is weathered low grade calcrete ore, free digging no blasting and no grinding, some were unsure about the beneficiation process that upgrades the ore from 225ppm to 2000ppm to feed the leach circuit, the beneficiation process is just simple mechanical screening using a scrubbing trommel and Derrick screen, it's nothing fancy it's just used to filter out all the worthless material which will eventually be used to back fill the pits. Watch any mining show on TV and you'll see rocks being washed in a trommel or passed over vibrating screens. 2000ppm to the leach circuit isn't to be sniffed at given the ease of mining, yeah higher grades are available in other regions but what does it cost to build and run an underground mine vs shallow shovel ready?