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Number of Uranium Mills and Plants Producing Uranium Concentrate in the United States  

Table 2. Number of Uranium Mills and Plants Producing Uranium Concentrate in the United States
Uranium Concentrate Processing Facilities
End of 1996
End of 1997
End of 1998
End of 1999
End of 2000
End of 2001
End of 2002
End of 2003
End of 2004
End of 2005
End of 2006
End of 2007
End of 2008
End of 2009
4th Quarter 2010
Mills - conventional milling 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Mills - other operations 2 2 3 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0
In-Situ-Leach Plants 3 5 6 6 4 3 3 2 2 3 3 5 5 6 3 4
Byproduct Recovery Plants 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 9 11 9 7 6 4 3 2 3 4 6 6 7 4 5
    1 Milling uranium-bearing ore.
    2 Not milling ore, but producing uranium concentrate from other (non-ore) materials.
    3 Not including in-situ-leach plants that only produced uranium concentrate from restoration.
    4 Uranium concentrate as a byproduct from phosphate production.
    Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration: Form EIA-851A and Form EIA-851Q, "Domestic Uranium Production Report."