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The expansion of the Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine is in doubt after BHP Billiton put off approving the project in order to investigate less capital-intensive development options.

¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß uranium resources are ample to meet requirements for the foreseeable future but timely investment in facilities will be needed to make sure production keeps pace with growing demand, according to a new edition of the flagship Red Book.

Disputes over a venture to revive uranium mining in Spain have been resolved with an agreement that sees Berkeley Resources waive its rights to mine in reserves where Enusa has already begun rehabilitation. In exchange, Berkeley will hold full exploitation rights in other reserves.

Nuclear regulators in the USA and Canada are investigating an incident at a Canadian uranium refinery when the lid of a drum containing uranium oxide from a plant in the USA blew off, leading to the exposure of three workers to airborne uranium.

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Cameco now owns over two-thirds of the Millennium uranium project in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin following the completion of its purchase of Areva Resources Canada's 27.94% interest.

Japanese trading house Itochu Corporation has agreed to form a strategic alliance with Australia's Alliance Resources. The transaction could, pending the results on ongoing litigation, fund the construction ofÌýa stand-alone in-situ leach operation at the Four Mile uranium deposit in South Australia.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decided to allow uranium captured in water treatment filters to be processed by uranium recovery operations - without the need for any licence amendment.

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.

Mineral exploration company Quaterra Resources and the governing body of Mohave County in Arizona have filed a joint lawsuit against the US government in an attempt to overturn the withdrawal of federal lands from mining.

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.