Operations at Ranger are governed by the Ranger Authority, issued under the Northern Territory Mining Management Act 2018. That authority expired today. Traditional owners of the land covered by the Ranger uranium project informed ERA in 2015 that they did not support any extension of the authority to mine in the project area.
Keri Phillips traces the history of uranium mining in Australia and Ranger's role in it. Australia has about one third of the world's known uranium resources and mining goes back to …
Production at Ranger has been from stockpiled ores since mining operations at the site ended in 2012. Production in the final quarter of 2020 was 390 t U3O8 (331 tU), with production of 1574 t U3O8 for the whole year. This was at the upper end of production guidance, ERA said. Uranium has been mined at Ranger, located 8 km east of Jabiru and ...
The second largest uranium mine in the world, Ranger produced 5,240t of uranium in 2009. By the end of 1995, the original ore body was exhausted and mining began on a second, Ranger 3, in 1997. In 2009, another significant ore body was discovered. Known as Ranger 3 Deeps, the ore body is adjacent to Ranger 3.
The Ranger mine's scheduled closure leaves Australia with only two operating uranium mines, BHP's (ASX:BHP) Olympic Dam operation and Quasar Resources' Four Mile, both in South Australia. Olympic Dam produced 3,678 tonnes of uranium oxide in the year ended June 2020, up 3 per cent on 2019 financial year levels.
The stakes couldn't be higher for the local Indigenous community. Royalty payments that have flowed from the controversial Ranger uranium mine are ending. After 40 years of production, the mine has shut down and there are massive plans to transform the former mining town of …
Ranger uranium mine is now coming to the end of its life. Mining has concluded and minimal processing of stockpiled ore continues as the company contemplates the enormous rehabilitation task. A leach tank at Ranger uranium mine collapsed in December 2013 spilling over …
The Ranger uranium mine, owned by Energy Resources Australia (ERA), sits in the heart of the world heritage listed Kakadu National Park. AAP Image/Tara Ravens Problems with the Mine Closure Plan
There are three operating uranium mines in Australia, Ranger in NT, Olympic Dam and Beverley in South Australia. A fourth is expected to start operation in 2009: Honeymoon, in South Australia, but a new mine on the Four Mile deposit close to Beverley may be in production before Honeymoon.
Over the past few decades Jabiru mining families have moved as far away as the Kalgoorlie gold fields, the Gladstone Queensland Bauxite mines (Jabiru East), the Hunter Valley Coalfields (Jabiru South East), the Roxby Downs Uranium mine (Jabiru South) and now the latest destination, iron ore in Mt. Tom Price (Jabiru West), in Western Australia.
upon reaching end-of-life, uranium mines in the Alligator Rivers Region are rehabilitated to the standard required by the Commonwealth and the community. The KKNs encompass the knowledge needs for all past, present and prospective uranium mining activities in the ARR. However, the focus at present remains on the rehabilitation of the Ranger ...
OREBODY-3 APPROVAL AT RANGER URANIUM MINE 'PREMATURE' SAYS F.O.E. FRIENDS OF THE EARTH PRESS RELEASE 16/5/96 Friends of the Earth have called on the Federal and NT Governments to put the approval and development of Orebody-3 at the Ranger uranium mine on hold until the Senate Select Committee on uranium, recently set up in the Senate as an initiative of the …
After more than 35 years of uranium mining at Ranger, ERA is required to cease mining and processing activities by January 2021, with rehabilitation to be completed by January 2026. The ...
More than 132,000 tonnes of drummed uranium produced over 40 years of operations Production ceased inline with the Ranger Authority on 8 January 2021, with a …
The rise in prices of uranium ore from $7 per pound in 2005 to a current price of $90 per pound has triggered a new boom in uranium exploration and development throughout the Colorado Plateau. The Kaibab National Forest reported on January 18, 2008, that they had more than 2,100 claims filed in the Tusayan Ranger District.
Discovered in 1969 and first opened in 1980, the Ranger mine is owned by Energy Resources of Australia Limited, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto. Uranium mined at Ranger provides nuclear power in Asia, Europe and North America. Mine operations have reduced to processing of stockpiled uranium oxide ore since open-cut mining ceased in 2012.
3.3. The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry (RUEI) In 1975 the same government responded to community concerns about Australia's involvement in the growing uranium industry, and the prospect of large scale uranium mining in the Kakadu region, by establishing the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry (RUEI). This was a major government
In both orebodies, oxidized and reduced uranium minerals occur chiefly in quartzose schists that have highly variable amounts of muscovite, sericite, and chlorite. ... Mining at Ranger involved a conventional open cut process, which begins with drilling and blasting. Pit 1 was mined out in 1994 and mining in Pit 3 ceased in November 2012.
The Ranger 3 nearby is slightly larger, and open pit mining of it took place over 1997 to 2012. In 1991 ERA bought from Pancontinental Mining Ltd the richer Jabiluka orebody (briefly known as North Ranger), 20 km to the north of the processing plant and with a lease adjoining the Ranger …
Uranium mining and high cancer rates in Aboriginals around Ranger mine. Kakadu mining and radiation, The Saturday Paper 14 Aug 21, Max Opray Carved out of the pristine surroundings of Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory, the Ranger uranium mine has long been a site of deep controversy. The mine may have been decommissioned in January, but concerns remain about …
End of mining operations at Ranger Uranium Mine. Publish Date: 8th January 2021. download PDF media statement. The Mirarr Traditional Owners welcome the conclusion today of uranium mining on their country with the end of processing at the Ranger Uranium Mine adjacent to Kakadu National Park. The ending of active operations comes some 40 years ...
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Uranium beginning to be seen as more palatable. If the rehabilitation of Ranger is a roaring success, it could ease concerns of communities near potential new mines and grease the wheels for future mine licence approval. It could even help more uranium mines be approved in Australia, which has around a third of known global reserves.
Heavy rainfall stops uranium mining at Ranger Uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA) has stopped mining at its Ranger mine in the Northern Territory following heavy monsoonal rain. ERA said mining stopped on Feb. 27, 2007, and the processing plant closed on Feb. 28, 2007, after several days of heavy rain. (The Age March 1, 2007)
Key Points. ERA's announcement on Friday 8 October 2021 that it faces 'material' cost and schedule overruns associated with rehabilitating and closing the Ranger uranium mine, highlights how difficult it is to understand the closure risks that need to be addressed on a mine site, and how important it is to undertake studies designed to improve understanding of these risks, how to address ...
NON-RADIOLOGICAL CONTAMINANTS FROM URANIUM MINING AND MILLING AT RANGER, JABIRU, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA B. N. N O L L E R Mines Environment Directorate, Department of Mines and Energy, GPO Box 2901, Darwin, N.T. 0801, Australia.
Ranger uranium mine, 260km east of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia, was the world's third largest uranium producing mine in 2012 where the open-pit mine produced 3,146t of uranium during the year.
Since the 1980s, Ranger has produced over 126,000 tonnes of uranium oxide under its various owners. ERA also holds title to the Jabiluka mineral lease 22 kilometres north of Ranger.
Ranger is the only operating asset of Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), a subsidiary 68% owned by multinational mining giant Rio Tinto. The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry was set up in 1973 to consider the prospect of uranium mining in the Alligator Rivers region and canvassed environmental and social impacts as well as the national ...
Uranium mining and milling at Ranger and the development of the Kakadu National Park were only the main agents of change. The education, health, housing, employment, cultural break down and alcohol issues facing the Aboriginal communities of the region are still largely those previously identified in the Fox Report. There are a number of other ...
Mining giant Rio Tinto's plans to clean up the controversial Ranger uranium mine have been thrown into doubt after objections from a Singapore-based hedge fund.
2.1 The Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry The first proposal for mining of uranium in the Alligator Rivers Region came jointly from the then Australian Atomic Energy Commission and Ranger Uranium Mines Pty Ltd for the development of the Ranger deposits. An Inquiry into this proposal, the Ranger Uranium
1. INTRODUCTION Ranger Uranium Mine is located in the Alligator Rivers uranium province in the northern tropical region of Australia. Mining at Ranger commenced in 1980 and is still continuing. The main uranium deposits at Ranger are hosted in altered schists and silicified carbonates. Acid leaching is used to extract uranium.
Open cut mining started at Ranger in 1980, with the mine reaching full production of uranium oxide a year later. The mine led to the construction of the town of …
Ranger is an open cut mine and has been producing uranium oxide (U 3 O 8) via acid leach extraction since 1981. In accordance with current regulatory approvals, mining at Ranger ceased in 2012 and stockpiled ore can continue to be processed until 2021. All …
Uranium mining began at a location labelled "Ranger" in 1980 on land excised from the Kakadu National Park World Heritage site.6 Aboriginal rights to veto mining were overridden in legislation, and detrimental impacts on Aboriginal people were anticipated, but market prospects for uranium appeared strong and the mine was considered to be in ...
The injustice of uranium mining in Kakadu National Park is not the only one in Australia against aboriginal communities. By 2019, the Ranger uranium mine …
The mining giant Rio Tinto will be able to go ahead with a plan to clean up the Ranger uranium mine after admitting it intends to fully take over the mine's operator, Energy Resources Australia ...
In 1975, the Government commissioned the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry into the mine's proposed development. As a result of the Inquiry, the Government approved the Ranger mine. Mining operations began in 1980. Rehabilitation and closure. Under its section 41 authority, ERA must stop mining uranium at Ranger by 8 January 2021.
