In this webpage: Summaries ‒ Customer Countries ‒ Safeguards and Security ‒ Economics ‒ Parliamentary Inquiries ‒ SA ‒ WA ‒ NT ‒ Queensland ‒ NSW ‒ Other Australian Uranium Issues ‒ Uranium Mining Internationally ‒ More Information
SUMMARIES URANIUM MINING IN AUSTRALIA
Summary uranium mining in Australia (PDF – lots of pics, some text, some links)
Expensive, dirty and dangerous: why we must fight miners’ push to fast track uranium mines (2020 Conversation article by Gavin Mudd ‒ Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, RMIT University)
URANIUM CUSTOMER COUNTRIES
(nuclear weapons states, dictatorships etc)
Please follow this link: Uranium customer countries – China, Russia, India, etc
SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY
Nuclear security and Australia’s uranium exports
URANIUM ECONOMICS
Uranium market downturn (May 2016 article)
2013 report – ‘Yellowcake Fever – Exposing the Uranium Industry’s Economic Myths’ (PDF)
2013 article: Yellowcake Fever: The economic myths of the uranium export industry
2014 article in Nuclear Engineering International Magazine about the future of the uranium market
Timeline of the 2005-07 uranium price bubble and its aftermath
PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRIES
Senate References and Legislation Committee, October 2003, “Regulating the Ranger, Jabiluka, Beverley and Honeymoon uranium mines“
Senate Select Committee on Uranium Mining and Milling, 1997, Uranium Mining and Milling in Australia
House of Representatives – Federal Standing Committee on Industry and Resources, ‘Australia’s uranium: Greenhouse friendly fuel for an energy hungry world‘, December 2006
SOUTH AUSTRALIA URANIUM ISSUES
Olympic Dam Uranium / Copper Mine
2023 – Alligator Energy proposal for uranium mining on Samphire lease near Whyalla
In-Situ Leach Uranium Mining (Beverley, Beverley-Four Mile, Honeymoon etc.)
Impacts of ‘trial’ uranium mining in SA (PDF)
WESTERN AUSTRALIA URANIUM ISSUES
Beyond Uranium Mining: The Road to a Nuclear Free Future for WA, 2021 report
Stop Toro Energy’s proposed Wiluna uranium mine in WA
WA uranium debate undermines ‘green tape’ propaganda
Uranium flashpoint in WA (2012 articles)
Stop Toro Energy’s plan to mine uranium at Wiluna in WA (Update Jan. 2018 – the project is nominally alive but with no realistic prospect of moving ahead in the foreseeable future.
NORTHERN TERRITORY URANIUM ISSUES
A History of Duress – Uranium Mining on Mirarr Land
Ranger uranium mine: 2012 report about Ranger 3 Deeps expansion plan (PDF)
Ranger Danger – 2014 ECNT report about Ranger uranium mine (PDF)
Rehabilitating Mirarr land: Uranium mining to end at Ranger?
Mirarr/Gundjehmi 2005 submission to federal Parliamentary Inquiry
The story of Rum Jungle: a Cold War-era uranium mine that’s spewed acid into the environment for decades (Dr Gavin Mudd article in The Conversation)
QUEENSLAND URANIUM ISSUES
Queensland campaign against uranium mining (2013 article)
Opposing uranium mining in Brisbane, 1976–78 (Jessica Harrison)
NSW URANIUM ISSUES
2012 – Nuclear South Wales? Premier’s atomic ambitions face fierce opposition
VARIOUS OTHER AUSTRALIAN URANIUM ISSUES
The story of Rum Jungle: a Cold War-era uranium mine that’s spewed acid into the environment for decades (Dr Gavin Mudd article in The Conversation)
Toro Energy promotes dangerous radiation junk science
Public opinion in Australia towards nuclear power and uranium mining
Famous moments in FoE history: exposing the uranium cartel in 1976
Impacts of nuclear power & uranium mining on water resources
Marcia Langton’s 2012/13 Boyer Lectures
Australian uranium miner Paladin goes bust ‒ so who cleans up its mess in Africa? (Nov 2017 article)
Detailed data – uranium mines/deposits in Australia – 2011 (PDF)
Critique of Switkowski Report – uranium mining section
EnergyScience Coalition Submission to the Australia 2020 Summit
Bike rides against uranium mining – 1970s (Peter Hayes)
URANIUM MINING INTERNATIONALLY
Perth-based Paladin Energy’s uranium mines in Africa
May 2017 report: The Global Uranium Industry & Cameco’s Troubled History (PDF) and detailed list of Cameco’s incidents and accidents (PDF)
Unviable economics of nuclear power catches up with Cameco
See the WISE Uranium website for heaps of information.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information, see the uranium section on the links page.