Texas uranium operation returns to production

Uranium production has begun at enCore Energy Corp's South Texas Rosita Central Processing Plant (CPP). The restart of the plant which last produced yellowcake in 2008 is the first step in enCore's South Texas in-situ leach uranium production pipeline strategy.

In-situ leach, or ISL, recovers minerals from porous orebodies by chemical leaching in wellfields, and is also known as in-situ recovery. The wellfield production patterns are now operating at Rosita, enCore said, with oxygenated water circulating through the satellite ion exchange (IX) facility and being injected back into the uranium ore body. Uranium concentrations in the production wells are "meeting expectations", and the company said it expects to make its first shipment of yellowcake "over the course of the next 45 to 60 days".

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