Both supporters and opponents of uranium mining urged a state commission Tuesday to focus on safety in its study of the impact of extracting the radioactive substance from the rolling hills of Pittsylvania County.

A trend that led to record uranium prices in 2007 was reversed in 2008, as the global financial crisis spilled over into the uranium market and caused the uranium spot price to tumble more than 40 percent.

Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp.(AMEX: CXZ) and Target Exploration & Mining Corp. have entered into a Letter Agreement to combine their businesses to create a well-funded, low-cost, growth-oriented, uranium exploration and development company with a defined timeline to production in one of the most mining friendly jurisdictions in North America.

Directors of Fusion Resources Ltd have accepted an all-scrip takeover offer by uranium miner Paladin Energy Ltd in respect of their personal shareholdings.

TORONTO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Equinox Minerals is delaying construction of a uranium processing plant at its Lumwana copper-uranium mine in Zambia, due to low uranium prices and difficulty raising financing, the Canadian company said on Wednesday. Equinox began copper production at Lumwana -- considered Africa's largest open-pit copper mine -- in December, and plans to eventually produce uranium to ...

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Equinox Minerals Ltd. , the company developing the Lumwana mine in Zambia, is deferring the construction of a uranium treatment plant because of the drop in the price of the metal and difficulty raising financing.

Directors of Perth-based uranium explorer Fusion Resources have accepted an all-scrip takeover offer from Paladin Energy for their personal shareholdings. Paladin made the offer of one of its shares

Matamec Explorations Inc. is pleased to announce of a private placement for gross proceeds of $32,000 consisting of a total of 320,000 flow-through common shares and 80,000 common shares at a price of $0.08 per share, and 200,000 warrants.

CHATHAM, Va. (AP) - Both supporters and opponents of uranium mining urged a state commission Tuesday to focus on safety in its study of the impact of extracting the radioactive substance from the rolling hills of Pittsylvania County.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - Northern Continental Resources Inc. has closed a non-brokered private placement of $305,500 through the sale of 3,055,000 units at $0.10 per unit. Each unit consisted of one flow-through common share and one half of a non flow-through share purchase warrant, with each full warrant entitling the holder to purchase one additional common share at a price of $0.15 ...