In January 2016, a team of experts from the uranium industry and researchers from two New Mexico universities assembled at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge for a three-day workshop to discuss topics associated with in situ recovery (ISR) of uranium. Part of the motivation for this workshop was the recognition that there has been little new research completed by the uranium industry or the academic community, and that much of the current uranium knowledge base consists of research, mapping and technology from the 1970s and 1980s.
Researchers and industry workers today have many new technologies available to help re-evaluate exploration, mining, processing, reclamation and restoration. Furthermore, today industry has become much more open to sharing data, in part because the strenuous permitting process has turned previously proprietary information into public record.
Outcomes of the January workshop include two special editions of New Mexico Geology, including this Spring, 2017 issue. The first special issue of New Mexico Geology
on uranium (vol. 38, no. 4) was published in November 2016 with two articles. These editions of New Mexico Geology will provide information about current
uranium-mining topics.
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