Title page
Contents
Contacts 3
Preface 4
Drilling 8
Mining, production, shipments, and sales 8
Facility status (mills, heap leach plants, and in-situ-leach plants) 8
Employment 9
Expenditures 9
Reserve estimates 9
Table 1. U.S. uranium drilling activities, 2003-16 10
Table 2. U.S. uranium mine production and number of mines and sources, 2003-16 12
Table 3. U.S. uranium concentrate production, shipments, and sales, 2003-16 12
Table 4. U.S. uranium mills and heap leach facilities by owner, location, capacity, and operating status at end of the year, 2011-16 13
Table 5. U.S. uranium in-situ-leach plants by owner, location, capacity, and operating status at end of the year, 2011-16 14
Table 6. Employment in the U.S. uranium production industry by category, 2003-16 15
Table 7. Employment in the U.S. uranium production industry by state, 2003-16 16
Table 8. U.S. uranium expenditures, 2003-16 16
Table 9. Summary production statistics of the U.S. uranium industry, 1993-2016 18
Table 10. Uranium reserve estimates at the end of 2015 and 2016 21
Figure 1. U.S. uranium drilling by number of holes, 2004-16 10
Figure 2. U.S. uranium drilling in footage, 2004-16 11
Figure 3. Employment in the U.S. uranium production industry by category, 2004-16 15
Figure 4. U.S. uranium expenditures, 2004-16 17
Figure 5. U.S. mine production of uranium, 1993-2016 19
Figure 6. U.S. uranium concentrate production and shipments, 1993-2016 19
Figure 7. Employment in the U.S. production industry, 1993-2016 20