NRC, Colorado dispute over U site cautionary tale for new miners

摘要

NRC and Colorado are locked in a dispute over ground-water monitoring at Hecla Mining's old Durita uranium heap-leaching site. And neither side, judging from recent correspondence released on NRC's Adam's electronic record-keeping system, appears willing to back down. According to one uranium market analyst, this dispute — over a site that stopped producing uranium in 1979 — illustrates that regulatory uncertainty is a factor that many junior uranium mining companies have to consider before actually spending money to begin operating.