Toshiba has secured the right to a "significant portion" of the output from the planned Madaouela uranium mine in Niger under a convertible debt-financing agreement with exploration and development company GoviEx.

A transportable plant that aims to demonstrate a process to recover uranium as a by-product from the phosphate fertiliser industry is about to start operations in the USA.

Namibian state mining company Epangelo is set to take an active role in the development of the Etango uranium project after Bannerman Resources agreed to sell it a 5% stake in the project for which a definitive feasibility study has just been completed.

Peninsula Energy Ltd has announced its formal decision to mine uranium at the Lance Project in Wyoming following a 24.3% increase in total uranium resources.

The directors of Extract Resources, would-be developer of the Husab uranium deposit in Namibia, have urged shareholders to accept a buyout offer from China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company subsidiary Taurus Mineral.

Legal actions concerning uranium projects in South Australia have concluded with very different outcomes for the two projects concerned. Meanwhile, the government of New South Wales is taking steps to allow uranium exploration in the state.

A China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company (CGNPC) subsidiary has taken a further step towards purchasing the Husab uranium project in Namibia.

US senators, congressmen, mining companies and nuclear industry representatives have criticised a final decision to ban new uranium mining on land near the Grand Canyon for the next 20 years.

Rio Tinto has taken up some 93.76% of the common shares of Canadian uranium exploration company Hathor and will now purchase all the remaining shares through a compulsory acquisition under Canadian law. London-based Rio Tinto's announcement marks the beginning of the end of an acquisition battle which saw Hathor shareholders reject an unsolicited bid from Canadian uranium mining company Cameco in favour of Rio Tinto's offer. The acquisition will add Hathor's Athabasca Basin exploration properties in northern Saskatchewan, including the Roughrider deposit with an estimated 17.2 million pounds U₃O₈ (6600 tU) in indicated resources and 40.7 million pounds U₃O₈ (15,650 tU) in inferred resources, to Rio's existing Canadian non-uranium mining and manufacturing interests.

Uranium Energy Corp has now obtained all the permits needed to proceed with development of its Goliad in-situ leach uranium project in South Texas.