Qualla: Honeymoon Uranium Mine https://qualla.com/honeymoon-uranium-mine en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/k/5/honeymoon-uranium-mine-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Honeymoon Uranium Mine https://qualla.com/honeymoon-uranium-mine Honeymoon Uranium Mine: Introduction https://qualla.com/honeymoon-uranium-mine/ Photo credit Solarence, CC BY-SA 4.0. Fly over Honeymoon and you might miss the mine entirely. There is no great open pit gouged into the earth, no towering headframe, no mountain of waste rock - just a scatter of pipework, ponds and a modest processing plant on the red plains northwest of Broken Hill. That is because Honeymoon does not dig its uranium out. It dissolves it. Wells pump a leaching solution down into the ore body, the solution strips the uranium from the sandstone in place, and the metal-rich liquid is pumped back to the surface. It is one of the quietest forms of mining there is, and Honeymoon's story is one of patience repeatedly tested: discovered in 1972, it took nearly four decades and several false starts to deliver its first uranium, and then promptly closed again.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/k/5/honeymoon-uranium-mine-wp/r4k5-honeymoon-uranium-mine-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Honeymoon Uranium Mine: Uranium in the Sandstone https://qualla.com/honeymoon-uranium-mine/ Photo credit Solarence, CC BY-SA 4.0. Honeymoon is a sandstone-hosted paleochannel deposit, which is a precise way of saying the uranium lies in the buried bed of an ancient river. Long ago, groundwater carried dissolved uranium through porous sand until chemical conditions made it drop out and concentrate, lining th...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/k/5/honeymoon-uranium-mine-wp/r4k5-honeymoon-uranium-mine-uranium-in-the-sandstone.mp3 0:06 2 full Honeymoon Uranium Mine: A Project Out of Time https://qualla.com/honeymoon-uranium-mine/ Photo credit Solarence, CC BY-SA 4.0. Honeymoon kept arriving at the right place at the wrong moment. In 1981 the operator submitted a final environmental impact statement, and in 1982 built a $3.5 million demonstration plant - a small wellfield of three five-spot leach patterns feeding a processing unit designed to ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/k/5/honeymoon-uranium-mine-wp/r4k5-honeymoon-uranium-mine-a-project-out-of-time.mp3 0:06 3 full Honeymoon Uranium Mine: The Short First Honeymoon https://qualla.com/honeymoon-uranium-mine/ Photo credit Solarence, CC BY-SA 4.0. The mine's first life was brief and bruising. From 2011 to 2013 Honeymoon produced just 312 tonnes of uranium before the economics turned against it. In November 2013 Uranium One cited "continuing difficulties in the production process and issues in attaining design capacity, com...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/k/5/honeymoon-uranium-mine-wp/r4k5-honeymoon-uranium-mine-the-short-first-honeymoon.mp3 0:06 4 full Honeymoon Uranium Mine: Brought Back to Life https://qualla.com/honeymoon-uranium-mine/ Photo credit Solarence, CC BY-SA 4.0. The wait finally paid off. Riding a renewed surge in uranium demand, Boss Energy rebuilt and restarted the operation, and in April 2024 Honeymoon poured its first drum of uranium in more than a decade. By January 2025 the mine had reached commercial production, this time pairing ...

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