Honeymoon Uranium Mine
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The Honeymoon Mine will be Australia
's fourth uranium mine and Australia's second operating in-situ recovery
mine. The mine is owned by Uranium One
. The uranium deposit belongs to the palaeochannel type.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
's fourth uranium mine and Australia's second operating in-situ recovery
In-situ leach
In-situ leaching , also called in-situ recovery or solution mining, is a mining process used to recover minerals such as copper and uranium through boreholes drilled into a deposit, in situ....
mine. The mine is owned by Uranium One
Uranium One
Uranium One is a Canadian based uranium mining company with operations in Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, South Africa and the United States.-History:...
. The uranium deposit belongs to the palaeochannel type.
See also
- Uranium mining in AustraliaUranium mining in AustraliaRadioactive ores were first extracted at Radium Hill in 1906, and Mount Painter in South Australia in the 1930s, to recover radium for medical use. Several hundred kilograms of uranium were also produced....
- List of uranium mines
- Sandstone uranium deposits