Former Wyoming Legislator Now In EPA Approves Long-Delayed Uranium Project

Former Wyoming Legislator Now In EPA Approves Long-Delayed Uranium Project

Former Sheridan state legislator Cyrus Western, put in charge of the EPA’s Denver office by the Trump administration, has approved a long-delayed Wyoming uranium mining project. Western says it was past time for “getting government out of the way.”

District Metals releases 1.5 billion pound uranium resource at Viken

District Metals (DMX.V) has released its maiden resource calculation for the Viken Energy Metals project in Sweden. As the table below shows, the project now hosts 456 million tonnes in an indicated resource category at an average grade of 175 ppm U3O8 which of course would be too low if this was a pure uranium project, but the amount of other metals in the resource speak volumes. As you can see below, the indicated resource contains 176 million…

EPA approves Wyoming uranium mining project

The Environmental Protection Agency approved a request May 1 from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality to allow the expansion of uranium mining in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.  The approval will allow projects to proceed in the Battle Springs Formation, an aquifer located throughout the Great Divide basin in south-central Wyoming. Working with the WDEQ, EPA determined that the aquifer, which contains uranium, is not a current and will …