International Mining NewsIs time up for Australia's uranium industry?
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- Category: Australia
- Published on Thursday, 19 December 2013
[19.12.2013] Times are tough for Australia's yellow-cake industry. Is it best to put the whole thing out of its misery?
(by Dave Sweeny)
White Mesa Mill is being shut down for a year
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- Category: USA
- Published on Monday, 02 December 2013
The plans to shut down the White Mesa Mill in San Juan County, Utah, have received mixed responses by the locals. 200 people will lose their jobs over an idle phase of at least one year. But the Mill has been controversial since its beginning in 1980, due to violation of radon standards and contamination of local springs and ground water.
NRC Ex-Chairman thinks nuclear power to be outdated technology
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- Category: USA
- Published on Monday, 18 November 2013
In an interview with IEEE Spectrum, former NRC-Chairman Gregory Jaczko said that he thinks nuclear power to be an old technology, and that the US will be moving away from it.
Pantomimo press conference in Mongolia - the dangerous phantom of Uranium Mining
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- Category: Mongolia
- Published on Friday, 15 November 2013
To the score from Once Upon a Time in the West, activists in Mongolia protested the dangers of the path their country is about to take in front of press members and political officials. Posing as phantoms with nuclear signs, they attained quite a public response for their protest.
Rosatom to mothball several facilities due to low uranium prices
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- Category: Russia
- Published on Wednesday, 13 November 2013
According to a Reuters article, Rosatom (Russian owned) has ordered Uranium One to shut down the Honeymoon mine in Australia and is further considering putting several facilities into "care and maintenance" mode. The reason: Low uranium prices. This might also affect the Mkuju River Uranium Project.
The Dangers in the Mines - Professor Doug Brugge
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- Category: Health
- Published on Thursday, 31 October 2013
Not one month ago, on October 2, Doug Brugge found himself in an unusual place: a Tanzanian police station.
Brugge, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts Medical School, and a Member of the Tisch College faculty, had traveled to that country’s capital for a conference on the dangers of uranium mining. The caravan that took him and other researchers to a planned mining exploration site was stopped by local police; their Tanzanian guide detained and threatened with arrest. The situation was thankfully resolved without further incident, but nonetheless tense: “We ended up staying at the police station well into the night in order to assure that our guide was released,” says Brugge, who also directs the Tufts Community Research Center.
The Mkuju Uranium Project is far from being “on track”
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- Category: Tanzania
- Published on Thursday, 17 October 2013
A response to the Daily News Article “Mkuju uranium project on track, says Mantra”. The fact that MANTRA launched this article - referring to that February conference which is already OLD, outdated news - may be a direct consequence of our activities - MANTRA may feel they have to 'affirm' THEIR project.
Déclaration de la coordination de la société civile Arlit
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- Category: Niger
- Published on Wednesday, 16 October 2013
[16/10/2013] Déclaration de la société civile d’Arlit à l’issue de la marche de soutien au gouvernement nigérien dans le cadre des négociations avec le groupe AREVA, pour une prise en compte effective des préoccupations des populations dans les mines d’Uranium.
AFP : Niger : Thousands of Anti-Areva on the streets in the north
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- Category: Niger
- Published on Wednesday, 16 October 2013
[16/10/2013] Translation by Golden Misabiko
Niamey – Thousands of people, anti-Areva , were demonstrating last Saturday in the mining town of Arlit in the north of Niger to show their anger against the French nuclear group Areva that has been mining uranium for over 40 years in this desert zone, as reported by the organizers.
Conference against Uranium mining in Tanzania: Field trip to Bahi
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- Category: Tanzania
- Published on Monday, 14 October 2013
By Gudrun Conrad (German Version) September 30th, 2013. Most participants of the international conference have arrived at Dar Es Salaam. Among the international attendees are members of IPPNW Germany and Netherlands, the Rosa-Luxemburg- Foundation Tanzania, Falea 21-movement France and the NGO Robin Wood Germany.
Joint statement of the participants of the conference on "Uranium Mining - Impact on Health and Environment" in Dar-Es-Salaam
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- Category: Tanzania
- Published on Tuesday, 08 October 2013
[08.10.2013] We representatives of civil society organisations gathered here in the multi–stakeholder conference "Uranium Mining – Impact on Health and Environment” have prepared a statement highlighting our concerns on the uranium industry.
Press Release: Uranium Mining Conference Dar Es Salaam
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- Category: Tanzania
- Published on Friday, 04 October 2013
[04.10.2013] The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in cooperation with the uranium-network.org Germany, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (East Africa Office) and the Tanzanian organisations LHRC, CESOPE and NaCUM. Topic: "Uranium Mining - Impact on Health and Environment".
International conference against uranium mining - visiting Manjoni, Dodoma and Bahi
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- Category: Tanzania
- Published on Friday, 04 October 2013
[04.10.2013] International Conference participants visited Manjoni and Bahi, where test drills for uranium mining have been conducted - right where people send their cattle and grow rice. In the evening, a social event was held in Dodoma to celebrate and collaborate against the destruction of lives and culture by possible uranium exploitation.