Uranium
There has been renewed interest in uranium mining in recent years, and we can expect to see more uranium mining proposals, perhaps many more, in the future. Wyoming is the nation’s largest producer of uranium and it has the largest uranium reserves of any state. Increasingly, most uranium mines are in-situ recovery sites, meaning a solution of chemicals is pumped into the deposit to extract the uranium. It is anticipated that many, if not most future uranium mining proposals in Wyoming will call for in-situ mining.