https://www.mining.com/web/uranium-miners-say-australia-to-miss-out-on-nuclear-boom/
"The country’s two operating uranium mines — BHP Group Ltd’s Olympic Dam project, where uranium is a byproduct of the copper operations, and the Boss Energy Ltd.-operated Honeywell — produce around 9% of the world’s disclosed output.
Mining approvals are decided on at the state level in Australia, but the Labor-led federal government has so far not taken steps to encourage mining of the nuclear fuel, despite it pushing for Australia to step up production of critical minerals key to the energy transition.
Peter Dutton, who leads the federal government’s main rivals the Liberals, attended the conference on Monday and told reporters the reluctance of Western Australia’s Labor government to remove the ban on uranium mining was costing the state.
“It’s ideologically based and we’re going to do ourselves out of thousands of jobs,” Dutton said. “Uranium is an obvious one where there will be significant demand that Australia has a natural advantage and should take advantage of that.”.......
/ Typo: Honeywell is Boss Honeymoon Mine"
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