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Uranium Recovery from Waste Materials
(last updated 10 Nov 2025)
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Gold and/or uranium mill tailings
Uranium mine waste
Copper tailings
Monazite tailings
Coal ash
Other waste material
Gold and/or uranium mill tailings
Issues:
Blyvooruitzicht tailings project
(South Africa)
Buffelsfontein tailings project
(South Africa)
Rand Uranium Co. tailings project
(formerly Harmony tailings project) (South Africa)
Gold Fields' Witswatersrand tailings
(South Africa)
East Rand tailings Joint Venture project
(South Africa)
West Rand tailings project
(South Africa)
Príbram uranium mine waste dump project
(Czech Republic)
Mailuu-Suu tailings reprocessing project
(Kyrgyzstan)
Tajikistan uranium mill tailings reprocessing project
Uranium mine waste
Issues:
Recovery project for uranium and other critical minerals with High-Pressure Slurry Ablation (HPSA) technology from abandoned uranium mine waste at Metals One Plc's and Thor Energy plc's Colorado properties
Commercial scale test of High-Pressure Slurry Ablation (HPSA) technology for cleaning up uranium mine waste on Navajo Nation
Uranium recovery project with High-Pressure Slurry Ablation (HPSA) technology at abandoned uranium mine waste dumps on Mandrake's Utah Lithium Project
Copper tailings
Issues:
UCIL proposes uranium recovery from copper tailings in Jharkhand (India)
Monazite tailings
Issues:
India eyes thorium and uranium recovery from monazite tailings
Coal ash
Issues:
Ajka coal ash project
(Hungary)
Yunnan coal ash project
(China)
Other waste material
Issues:
Alternate feed processing at White Mesa Mill
(Utah)
Proposed alternate feed processing at Sweetwater uranium mill
(Wyoming)
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