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Domestic Uranium Production Report - Quarterly

Data for 4th Quarter 2018  |  Release Date: February 6, 2019  |  Next Release Date: May 2019  | full report

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Table 3. U.S. uranium mills and heap leach facilities by owner, location, capacity, and operating status
  Operating status at the end of
Owner Mill and Heap Leach[1] Facility name County, state (existing and planned locations) Capacity (short tons of ore per day) 2017 1st Quarter 2018 2nd quarter 2018 3rd quarter 2018 4th quarter 2018
Anfield Resources Inc. Shootaring Canyon Uranium Mill Garfield, Utah 750 standby standby standby standby standby
EFR White Mesa LLC White Mesa Mill San Juan, Utah 2,000 operating-processing alternate feed operating-processing alternate feed operating-processing alternate feed operating-processing alternate feed operating-processing alternate feed
Energy Fuels Wyoming Inc Sheep Mountain Fremont, Wyoming 725 undeveloped undeveloped undeveloped undeveloped undeveloped
Kennecott Uranium Company/Wyoming Coal Resource Company Sweetwater Uranium Project Sweetwater, Wyoming 3,000 standby standby standby standby standby
Total capacity: 6,475  

1. Heap leach solutions: The separation, or dissolving-out from mined rock, of the soluble uranium constituents by the natural action of percolating a prepared chemical solution through mounded (heaped) rock material. The mounded material usually contains low-grade mineralized material and/or waste rock produced from open pit or underground mines. The solutions are collected after percolation is completed and processed to recover the valued components.
- = No data reported.
Notes: Capacity for the 4th Quarter of 2018. An operating status of operating indicates the mill usually was producing uranium concentrate at the end of the period.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration: Form EIA-851A and Form EIA-851Q, Domestic Uranium Production Report.