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Unpalatable price facts hit Wyoming’s uranium industry

fearWyoming mines affected by low uranium prices Houston Chronicle, May 29, 2014  CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Some uranium producers in Wyoming say they’re being affected by weak demand that has caused prices for the nuclear fuel to slip to their lowest level in eight years.

Spot prices for yellowcake are down to $28 per pound. That’s as low as they’ve been since 2006 and down from $75 per pound in 2011………

the current situation is that we have oversupply due to excess inventories,” said Rob Chang, an industry analyst at the New York-based investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald.

Wyoming is among the top uranium-producing states. Wyoming’s uranium mines employ a process of dissolving uranium out of underground deposits and then pumping the ore-containing solution to the surface through wells.

Uranium One has stopped drilling new uranium wells and laid off eight employees since last year, said Donna Wichers, Uranium One vice president for the Americas.

“At $28 a pound you can imagine what that is doing to us,” Wichers said……..http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Wyoming-mines-affected-by-low-uranium-prices-5514120.php

May 30, 2014 - Posted by | business and costs, Uranium, USA

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