Uranium

The booming uranium industry is being driven by speculators but there are a number of players well-placed if state government policy changes.

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Special Reports 02 May 2006

Explorers want yellowcake but ALP must eat humble pie

The pressure on the Australian Labor Party at a state and federal level to allow expanded uranium mining is building as fast as the uranium price is rising and new explorers are pouring into the market.

Special Reports 02 May 2006

Deregulation trigger for business worth billions

The abolition of restraints on the expanded production of Australian uranium could clear the way for an enrichment business worth $20 billion a year by 2020.

Special Reports 02 May 2006

Arafura assets spin-off

Perth company Arafura Resources NL is to spin-off its Northern Territory uranium projects into a new, as yet unnamed, company. The move will leave Arafura as a gold and rare earths company based on its substantial Nolans Bore rare earths, phosphate and ur