What is uranium and how is it mined?
Uranium is the world’s heaviest, naturally occurring element and is found in soil, rocks, human tissue, food, water and the ocean. Uranium can be mined in three different ways, open-cut, underground and in situ leaching. Once the ore is mined it is finely ground and the uranium is extracted through conventional processes involving mineral separation with acid or alkali, and then the ore is concentrated into uranium oxide called yellow cake.
