From documents you've all read by now;"Black Range insists that...

From documents you've all read by now;

"Black Range insists that this process is "mining" and not source material processing("uranium milling"). It bases its belief on peculiar wording in the definition of "ore" found in the Colorado Radiation Regulations, and thereby expecting to avoid the necessity of obtaining a source material Radioactive Material License. Federal regulations contradict this position and includes the "crushing" or "grinding", separation, screening, and concentration of uranium ore as beneficiation processes which are identified as source material processing activities. TAC pointed out the contradiction between Colorado and Federal regulations to the manager of the Radiation Management Unit of CDPHE. After reviewing our documentation, he stated (in correspondence to TAC in October and November 2012) that "the process, if implemented as we now understand it, would result in the possession of source material and would,
therefore, require a source material radioactive material license at a minimum"."

buc, depending on whose definition is upheld you may or may not be able to proceed as simply as you propose.

Is Ablating ore at the surface really "mining".....or is it processing like "grinding and crushing" are considered to be? If it's deemed to be processing then you'll be joining the 3-4yr queue for a SML anywhere outside Agreement States.