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Domestic Uranium Production Report - Quarterly

Data for 1st Quarter 2017  |  Release Date: May 24, 2017  |  Next Release Date: August 2017  |   full report

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Table 2. Number of uranium mills and plants producing uranium concentrate in the United States
  Uranium concentrate processing facilities  
End of Mills - conventional milling1 Mills - other operations2 In-situ leach plants3 Byproduct recovery plants4 Total
1996 0 2 5 2 9
1997 0 3 6 2 11
1998 0 2 6 1 9
1999 1 2 4 0 7
2000 1 2 3 0 6
2001 0 1 3 0 4
2002 0 1 2 0 3
2003 0 0 2 0 2
2004 0 0 3 0 3
2005 0 1 3 0 4
2006 0 1 5 0 6
2007 0 1 5 0 6
2008 1 0 6 0 7
2009 0 1 3 0 4
2010 1 0 4 0 5
2011 1 0 5 0 6
2012 1 0 5 0 6
2013 0 1 6 0 7
2014 0 0 7 0 7
2015 0 0 4 0 4
2016 0 1 7 0 8
1st quarter 2017 0 1 6 0 7
1Milling uranium-bearing ore.
2Not milling ore, but producing uranium concentrate from other (non-ore) materials.
3Not including in-situ leach plants that only produced uranium concentrate from restoration.
4Uranium concentrate as a byproduct from phosphate production.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration: Form EIA-851A and Form EIA-851Q, "Domestic Uranium Production Report."