NexGen Energy has completed the Provincial Environmental Assessment technical review process and submission of the Final Provincial Environmental Impact Statement for its flagship Rook I project to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment.

Peninsula Energy has announced a "significant" delay in the restart of its Lance project in Wyoming after Uranium Energy Corp said it was terminating an agreement to process loaded resins from the in-situ leach uranium mine. Peninsula said it will accelerate plans for in-house resin processing and dry yellowcake production.

Junior Australian uranium companies Lotus Resources Limited and A-Cap Energy Limited have agreed a merger to create "a leading African-focused uranium player with significant scale and resources".

US uranium mining company Uranium Energy Corp announced its plan to accelerate the steps required for a resumption of operations has been completed, enabling a faster restart at the Christensen Ranch in-situ leach project in Wyoming.

The first wellfield has been completed at the Honeymoon in-situ leach uranium project in South Australia ahead of its restart by the end of this year, Boss Energy Limited announced. In addition, related gypsum pond and water treatment plants are nearing completion.

The company has released the full results of a feasibility study on in-situ leach mining of the high-grade Phoenix uranium deposit and a cost update to its pre-feasibility study for conventional underground mining of the Gryphon uranium deposit. The deposits are part of the Wheeler River project in the Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan, Canada.

Anfield Energy has agreed to acquire the Marquez-Juan Tafoya uranium project in New Mexico through the acquisition of enCore Energy Corp's wholly-owned Neutron Energy Inc subsidiary for 185 million common shares of Anfield and CAD5 million (USD3.7 million) in cash.

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Ur-Energy Inc has announced the successful startup of production flow from Header House 2-4 at its Lost Creek in-situ leach uranium project in Wyoming. The company also said construction of its centralised services facility in Casper, Wyoming, was now complete. 

All the uranium produced in the USA during the first quarter of this year was from in-situ leach operations, according to the latest US government update. But production from conventional mills, as well as in-situ leach operations, looks set to ramp up over the coming months.

Remediation works at Mailuu-Suu - the largest uranium legacy site in Kyrgyzstan - are set to begin following the allocation of a grant of EUR23 million (USD25 million) from the Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia, managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

China National Nuclear Corporation has commissioned a seawater uranium extraction test platform, said to be the largest such test platform to be built in the South China Sea.