List of countries by uranium production

Here tables and graphs are presented with details about uranium.

Overview

Although uranium was promoted in the 19th century for coloring glass and ceramics, continued an intensive degradation only in the course of a nuclear arms race in the Cold War from 1945/46, and the beginning of the peaceful use of nuclear energy in 1954. Here, until 1990 the following quantities of uranium were produced:

In East Germany took place after the Second World War, an extensive uranium for the Soviet Union by the SAG / Wismut instead. In this case, larger deposits were mainly in Eastern Thuringia, the Erzgebirge and the Saxon Switzerland. Approximately 231,000 tons of uranium from 1946 to the end of production in late December 1990, produced by the bismuth, with production in the 1960s, with about 7,000 tons per year peaked. The bismuth was in 1990 in Federal ownership. The successor company bismuth GmbH, has been entrusted federal enterprise remediation and reclamation of the legacies of the bismuth mining. As part of the mine water purification on the members of the bismuth GmbH Königstein mine small residual amounts of uranium are produced here. In western Germany were smaller uranium deposits in the Black Forest, Bavarian Forest, and Fichtelgebirge explored, but received no industrial production.

In 2011, the global uranium production was 54 610 tonnes, which is nearly equivalent to the promotion of the previous year (2010: 54 660 tonnes). Comparing the past 5 years, the production has increased since 2007 by about a third ( 32.2 %).

The main producing countries were Kazakhstan ( 19,451 tons ), Canada ( 9,145 tons ) and Australia ( 5,963 tonnes), accounting for the global production to almost two-thirds ( 63.3 %). In Europe currently only support the Ukraine ( 890 tons ), Czech Republic ( 229 tons ) and Romania (77 tons ) of uranium. In Germany, the mine water purification were produced on the members of the bismuth GmbH Königstein mine in 2007 was 41 tons of uranium and 2011 still 51 tonnes of uranium in the frame. The uranium mines in Russia are located in the Asian part of the country.

In several European countries, including Sweden, Spain, Finland, Poland and Slovakia exploration work has been carried out in recent years, however, again.

The reserves were eligible by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ( BGR) estimated in 2008 to 1.766 million tons worldwide. Of this total, 40.1 per cent to Australia, Canada, and 15.3 percent to 13.3 percent in Kazakhstan.

With an annual consumption of more than 60,000 tons of uranium since 1990 a gap between production and consumption. This gap was covered by previously applied civilian and military stockpiles, which are progressively reduced. The major consumers USA, France, Japan, Germany and South Korea have only a low self promotion ( U.S.) or rely entirely on imports. One consequence of this is the increase in global spot price of under $ 26 per kilogram of uranium in 1997 to an all-time high of 353.60 U.S. dollars per kilogram of uranium in June 2007. By the end of December 2007, the price dropped to 234 U.S. dollars per kilogram uranium, in December 2008 to 143 U.S. dollars and until February 2012 further to about 115 U.S. dollars per kilogram of uranium. The gap between consumption and production is still lower, mainly due to production increases in Kazakhstan, which his promotion between 2007 and 2011 within 5 years has more than tripled and now promotes one-third of the world's uranium.

Promotion by country

Promotion by Company

Listed are the companies that sponsored the quantity (in tonnes ) and the share of global production.

Promotion by mines

Listed are the mine, the delivery method, the delivered quantity (in tonnes ) and the proportion of the mine of global production.

World promotion

Reserves by country

Listed are the countries with the largest uranium reserves (in tons ) and their share of world reserves (in percent). Under Reserves refers to the recoverable at current prices and with today's production technologies amount of raw materials.

Resources by country

Listed are the countries with the largest uranium resources ( in thousand tons ) and their share of world resources ( in percent). As a resource, the detected amount of the raw materials is defined, which is currently technically and / or economically can not be won and not proven, but geologically possible, future recoverable amount of a mineral deposit.

Consumption by country

Listed are the countries with the highest consumption of natural uranium ( in tonnes ) and their share of world consumption ( in percent).

Uranium price

The following table shows the annual high, low and closing prices for uranium oxide ( U3O8 ) of TradeTech Uranium Spot Price Indicator in U.S. dollars per pound (454 grams). Uranium market prices publish TradeTech and its predecessor NUEXCO since the establishment of commercial nuclear fuel market in 1968.