Talk:Uranium mining

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[edit] Plagiarism

Both sections, "Rise, stagnation and renaissance of uranium mining" and "Risks of uranium mining" are plagiarised from this source: http://www.australianuranium.com.au/about-uranium.html This desperately needs at least paraphrasing, as plagiarism is not permissible. Trappleton 04:42, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

--I have removed the offending material. Trappleton 05:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Huh? Quote that link: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on Uranium." Femto 13:52, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Wow, insert foot in mouth. Thanks for catching that, and the revert. Trappleton 08:46, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mine Locations

I added South Dakota to the list of States with former Uranium mining operations. Sbednar 15:46, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Why is the US split into states when it is no longer a significant supplier of uranium? This article comes off as very Americo-centric just from its table of contents.

US is split into states for the convenience of readers interested in uranium mining activity in a particular area. The cure for the article appearing Americo-centric would be for you to add more detail to uranium mining in other countries. Plazak 13:33, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uranium Extraction via Coal Gasification?

I recall once reading that coal gasification allows not just for non-coal impurities such as arsenic, lead, and mercury to be separated from the coal, but sold for a profit. What is normally a contaminant becomes valuable. A liability becomes an asset. Uranium concentrations in coal are similar to those other elements, so is coal gasification a viable method of uranium extraction? Google searches turn up nothing, suggesting it isn't, but surely there must be some uranium extracted, suggesting that it could be used, though not economical enough alone to be the impetus for coal gasification, just a side benefit. It's funny, when it comes to electrical power generation, coal and uranium are traditionally thought of as competitors, but they may compliment each other if coal uranium extraction is possible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.112.31 (talk) 16:47, 13 September 2007 (UTC)


hello! im reading a book by Laznicka "giant metallic deposits: future sources of industrial metals" and he says something like there are two ways to get metals from coal, 1) those seperable during mining (like pyrite) and 2) when the conc. of metals in coal is economical enough to remove the ore for the metals and not the coal. im pretty sure this is how the uranium in the 60's in some soviet, czech and east german mines were taken... i think its "command economy" when the demand for U was greater than Coal ... is that helpful?

SimonBloomberg (talk) 04:07, 26 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Where is Asia?

Asia (except India) is not in this article, but mines uranium, while every other continent is represented. And seeing that Kazakhstan has a quarter of the world's unranium supply, I think it's a gigantic omission. Quick Source http://www.internationalspecialreports.com/ciscentralasia/99/kazakhstan/7.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.156.166.62 (talk) 17:31, 23 May 2008 (UTC)