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Deep Yellow keeps Tumas uranium project shovel-ready as it waits on price
Deep Yellow spent A$61.4m during the year to June 2026 advancing its Tumas uranium project in Namibia, keeping it construction-ready while it waits for uranium prices to justify a final investment decision.
Bannerman's Etango uranium project reaches 92% of bulk earthworks
Bannerman Energy says bulk earthworks at its Etango uranium project in Namibia are 92% complete, with over 560 people on site, as it heads toward a final investment decision once financing with a Chinese partner closes.
Paladin closes out record year at Langer Heinrich as ramp-up nears completion
Paladin Energy's Langer Heinrich mine produced 4.82-million pounds of uranium oxide for the year to June 2026, its strongest year since restarting, and has guided FY2027 output up to 5.6-million pounds.
Rössing marks 50 years as world's longest-running open-pit uranium mine
Rössing Uranium celebrated 50 years of operation at a ceremony in Swakopmund, with Chinese majority owner CNNC pledging continued investment in the world's longest-running open-pit uranium mine.
GoviEx holds week-long talks in Niamey over Madaouela uranium restart
GoviEx Uranium and Niger's mining ministry held a week of technical and legal talks in Niamey in June 2026 aimed at drafting a new mining convention that could pave the way back to the Madaouela uranium project.
Tanzania presses Mantra to speed up $1.2bn Mkuju River uranium mine
Tanzania's deputy minister of minerals has urged Mantra Tanzania to accelerate financing and construction of the long-delayed Mkuju River uranium project, which faces a 2028 licence deadline.
Swakop Uranium plans N$235m Husab drilling push for 2026
Swakop Uranium plans to spend N$235-million drilling about 100,000 metres at its Husab uranium mine in 2026, intensifying exploration across five known deposits after a 41% jump in drilling in 2025.
Niger's Tiani says 95,000 tonnes of yellowcake ready to go back to Orano
Niger's military ruler Abdourahamane Tiani said about 95,000 tonnes of concentrated uranium powder is ready to be returned to Orano, while insisting uranium produced since the Somaïr nationalisation belongs to Niger.
Langer Heinrich tracks toward top of Paladin's FY26 uranium guidance
Paladin Energy's Langer Heinrich mine produced 1.23-million pounds of uranium oxide in the December quarter, taking half-year output to 2.30-million pounds and keeping the Namibian mine on course for the upper end of its FY2026 target.
Uranium and gold overtake diamonds in Namibia's mining tax take
Tax revenue from Namibia's uranium and gold mines rose to N$2.87bn in the past financial year, almost double the original budget, as diamond earnings weakened and uranium production climbed 22% year on year.
ICSID tribunal blocks Niger from selling seized Orano uranium
An ICSID arbitration tribunal has ordered Niger not to sell or transfer uranium produced at the nationalised Somaïr mine, siding with French group Orano in a dispute over roughly 1,500 tonnes of yellowcake.












