Honeymoon Uranium Mine

Honeymoon Uranium Mine
Location
Honeymoon Uranium Mine
Location in Australia
Location Kalkaroo[1]
State South Australia
Country Australia
Coordinates 31°44′27″S 140°39′44″E / 31.74095°S 140.66236°E / -31.74095; 140.66236Coordinates: 31°44′27″S 140°39′44″E / 31.74095°S 140.66236°E / -31.74095; 140.66236
Production
Products Uranium
Owner
Company JSC Atomenergoprom
Website http://www.atomenergoprom.ru/en/
Year of acquisition 2013

The Honeymoon Mine is Australia's fourth uranium mine and Australia's second operating in-situ recovery mine and began production in 2011.[2] The uranium deposit belongs to the palaeochannel type. Operations at Honeymoon were suspended in November 2013, following difficulties in reaching production targets, high costs and a falling uranium price. The project was placed in care and maintenance,[3] then sold by JSC Atomenergoprom (a subsidiary of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation) to Boss Resources and Wattle Mining in September 2015[4][5] for a sum of $9 million AUD. Boss Resources anticipates resuming production at the mine in 2019.[6]

History

The Honeymoon deposit was discovered in 1972 by the Minad-Teton-CEC Joint Venture. In 1982, Minad established a demonstration in-situ recovery mine there after receiving environmental approval from South Australian and Commonwealth governments. Following changes of government in both jurisdictions, Approval to Mine was deferred, and the project was placed in care and maintenance.

Between 15 March 1999 and 9 August 2000, a second series of leach trials were conducted. In May 2000, another EIS was produced by Southern Cross Resources. A mining license was issued in 2001 and "miscellaneous purposes licenses" were issued in 2002 and 2008.

Construction of the Honeymoon mine commenced in late 2009 and was completed in 2011.[7]

Ownership

In May 1997, project ownership was transferred to Minad's parent company, MIM Holdings, then sold to Southern Cross Resources. Southern Cross Resources later became Uranium One Australia Pty Ltd. Uranium One Australia Pty Ltd was purchased by Boss Resources in 2015, and was then renamed Boss Uranium.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Search result for "Honeymoon Mine (Mine )" (Record no. SA0030973) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Chris Russel (9 November 2011). "First ore for new uranium mine". The Advertiser. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Honeymoon on Hold". World Nuclear News. 2013-11-15. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
  4. ↑ Evans, Simon (2015-09-01). "Rosatom sells Honeymoon uranium mine in South Australia". Retrieved 2016-09-17.
  5. ↑ Evans, Simon (2015-09-01). "Rosatom sells Honeymoon uranium mine in South Australia". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  6. ↑ "Boss Resources Ltd envisages 2019 restart of Honeymoon uranium mine". Proactiveinvestors UK. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  7. 1 2 "Honeymoon Uranium Mine - Program for Environment Protection and Rehabilitation" (PDF). 2017-04-12. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  • "Honeymoon Project". Uranium One Inc. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
  • "Honeymoon uranium mine". australianmap.net. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
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