We talked to North Americas leading In Situ Leach (ISL) uranium mining engineers, and had them explain exactly how ISL worked. Most of the significant ISL operations in the United States were designed and/or constructed by these engineers. They explained how ISL mining is really just reversing the process of Mother Nature.
CLEANING UP THE PROJECT
Not so fast. Shipping the uranium out of the ISL plant isnt the final step. The water has to be cleaned up, the property returned to its original condition. If done properly, then the footprint of the ISL uranium operation should have been nearly erased. In an earlier article, Wyoming Uranium: Now and the Future, we talked to Pat Drummond at Smith Ranch about this process:
The company is meticulous in restoring the landscape as well. Any restoration work on the surface is called reclamation. That can involve farming. When we start a well field, we have to, by license, remove the topsoil and store it somewhere, Drummond explained. When we go back to reclaim the property, we take all the pipes out, we take the houses down, and cut our wells off. Its all identified. We put an ID marker on the well. In 50 years time,...
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