| Uranium concentrate processing facilities | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of | Mills - conventional milling[1] | Mills - other operations[2] | In-situ leach plants[3] | Byproduct recovery plants[4] | 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 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 4th quarter of 2018 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 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. |
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