On 3 May 2008, at 02:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But, I have a buddy working on a uraninium minining detector project > in the > US. The market for uranium has come out of the doldrums of the last > 20+ > years, so folks are actually looking now. > > Last year, the US, for example, used about 25-30 tons of uranium for > its > plants. Canada alone has proven reserves of about 180k tons. One > reserve > (McCrthur River) is extremely high grade (26%), so the total amount > that > needs to be mined to get the uranium is low. So, the local impact > would be > far lower than the present local impact of coal mining.
So we don't really know how available some minerals are until we start looking for them harder? Geology Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
