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New uranium discovery for India’s UCIL

6th August 2013

By: Ajoy K Das

Creamer Media Correspondent

  

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KOLKATA (miningweekly.com) – The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) has discovered new reserve deposits near its existing mines in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand.

Though the estimates of the new deposits have not been disclosed, UCIL officials said that the reserves were located in close proximity of the existing Jadugora and Narwapahar mines, and noted that a new discovery would enable the miner to extend the life the mines by five to six years.

The Jadugora mine is among the oldest in the country having started production in the 1960s. UCIL, which is the country’s sole miner of the strategic mineral, said that the shortest route to extraction at the new uranium deposits would be achieved if the infrastructure and logistics of existing operations at Jadugora were used, the official said.

UCIL operates seven mines, including Jadugora, Bhatin, Turamdih, Bagjata, Narwapahar, Banduhurang and Mahuldih, in eastern province of Jharkhand.

Meanwhile, UCIL was currently working on increasing the processing capacity at its Tummalapalle mine from 3 000 t/d to 6 000 t/d in order to build processing capacity to handle higher production from the mines.

At Tummalapalle, with estimated reserves of 150 000 t of uranium and considered to among the largest deposits in the world, UCIL had undertaken a project to increase extraction capacity from 14 000 t/y to 60 000 t/y.

Edited by Esmarie Iannucci
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

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