Uranium / tables and graphs

The ten largest uranium producing countries (2013)

Here are tables and graphs with information about uranium shown.

overview

Although uranium was extracted for coloring glass and ceramics as early as the 19th century, it was only extracted intensively in the course of the nuclear arms race in the Cold War from 1945/46 and the beginning of civilian use of nuclear energy from 1954. The following quantities of uranium were produced up to 2012:

1. Canada: 465,489 tons
2. USA: 370,149 tons
3. Germany: 219,626 (of which GDR: 213,380t from 1946 to 1989)
4. Kazakhstan: 199,413 tons (including the Soviet portion)
5. Australia: 183,239 tons
6. South Africa: 158,718 tons
7. Russian Federation: 152,718 tons (including the Soviet portion)
8. Ukraine: 127,924 tons (including the Soviet portion)
9. Niger: 123,432 tons
10. Uzbekistan: 122,791 tons (including the Soviet portion)
11. Namibia: 113,323 tons
12. Czech Republic: 111,396 tons (of which CSSR / CSFR: 102,241 tons 1946 to 1992)
13. France: 80,963 tons

After the Second World War , extensive uranium mining for the Soviet Union by the SAG / SDAG Wismut took place in eastern Germany . Larger deposits were mainly in East Thuringia , the Ore Mountains and Saxon Switzerland . From 1946 until production was discontinued at the end of December 1990, around 216,400 tons of uranium were produced by the Wismut, with production peaking in the 1960s at around 7,000 tons per year. The bismuth became federal property in 1990. The successor company Wismut GmbH, as a federal company, is entrusted with the rehabilitation and recultivation of the legacies of the bismuth mining. As part of the mine water cleaning on the members of the bismuth GmbH pit Koenigstein produced small residual amounts of uranium here. In western Germany, smaller uranium deposits in the Black Forest , Bavarian Forest and Fichtel Mountains have been explored, but no industrial extraction has been started.

In 2019, global uranium production was 53,656 tons, which is hardly a change from the previous year (2015: 53,498 tons). Compared to the last 5 years, the funding has fallen by over 10% and is now back at the 2010 level.

The most important producing countries were Kazakhstan (22,808 tons), Canada (6,938 tons) and Australia (6,613 tons), which accounted for around two thirds of world production. In Europe, only Ukraine currently produces uranium (801 tons). In Germany were under the mine water cleaning on the members of the bismuth GmbH pit Koenigstein last in 2014 still produces 33 tons of uranium. The uranium mines in Russia are located in the Asian part of the country.

In several European countries, including Sweden , Spain , Finland , Poland and Slovakia , however, exploration work has been carried out again in recent years.

The eligible reserves were estimated by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in 2008 at 1.766 million tons worldwide. Of this, Australia accounted for 40.1 percent, Canada for 15.3 percent and Kazakhstan for 13.3 percent.

With an annual consumption of more than 60,000 tons of uranium, there has been a gap between production and consumption since 1990. This gap has been filled with previously established civilian and military stocks, which are being gradually reduced. The bulk consumers USA , France , Japan , Germany and South Korea have only a small amount of self-production (USA) or are completely dependent on imports.

advancement

By country

World extraction and development of the six largest uranium producing countries 1995–2006

Promotion in tons

Rank (2019)	country	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
1.	Kazakhstan	...	1,630	1,870	4,357	17,803	19,451	21,317	22,451	23,127	23,800	24,575	23,321	21,705	22.808
2.	Canada	8,729	10,473	10,683	11,628	9,783	9,145	8,999	9,331	9.134	13,325	14,039	13,116	7.001	6,938
3.	Australia	3,530	3.712	7,579	9,516	5,900	5,983	6,991	6,350	5,001	5,654	6.315	5,882	6,517	6,613
4th	Namibia	3.211	2.016	2,715	3,147	4,496	3,258	4,495	4,323	3,255	2,993	3,654	4.224	5,525	5,476
5.	Niger	2,839	2,974	2,914	3,093	4,198	4,351	4,667	4,518	4,057	4.116	3,479	3,449	2,911	2.983
6th	Russia	...	2.120	2,760	3,431	3,562	2,993	2,872	3.135	2,990	3,055	3,004	2,917	2,904	2,911
7th	Uzbekistan	...	1,644	2,028	2,300	2,400	3,000	2,400	2,400	2,400	2,385	2,404	2,404	2,404	2,404
8th.	People's Republic of China	800	500	700	730	827	885	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,616	1,616	1,885	1,885	1,885
8th.	Ukraine	...	1,000	1.005	800	850	890	960	922	926	1,200	1.005	550	1,180	801
12.	South Africa	2,460	1,421	798	674	583	582	465	531	573	393	490	308	346	346
11.	India	230	155	207	230	400	400	385	385	385	385	385	421	423	308
13.	Iran	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	0	0	0	0	0	38	0	40	71	71
10.	United States	3,420	2,324	1,522	1,039	1,660	1,537	1,569	1,792	1.919	1,256	1,125	940	582	67
14th	Pakistan	30th	23	23	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45
15th	Czech Republic	...	600	507	408	254	229	228	215	193	155	138	0	0	0
16.	Romania	210	120	86	90	77	77	90	77	77	77	50	0	0	0
17th	Brazil	5	106	11	110	148	265	231	192	55	40	44	0	0	0
	France	2,841	1,016	296	7th	7th	6th	3	5	3	2	0	0	0	0
	Germany	2,972	35	28	94	8th	51	50	27	33	0	0	0	0	0
	Malawi	0	0	0	0	670	846	1.101	1,132	369	0	0	0	0	0
	Argentina	9	65	0	0	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
	Belgium	39	25th	0	0	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
	Bulgaria	405	0	0	0	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
	Gabon	709	652	0	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	n / a	k. A.	k. A.
	Yugoslavia	53	0	0	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
	Mongolia	89	20th	0	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
	Portugal	111	18th	14th	0	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
	Soviet Union	10,500	0	0	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
	Spain	213	255	255	0	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
	Czechoslovakia	2.142	0	0	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
	Hungary	490	210	10	4th	0	0	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.

By company

The company, the amount extracted (in tons) and the share in global production are listed.

Production in tons (2016)

rank	Companies	Headquarters	advancement	Percentage ownership %
1.	Kazatomprom	Kazakhstan	12,986	21st
2.	Cameco	Canada	10,438	17th
3.	Areva	France	8,176	13
4th	ARMZ	Russia	7,913	13
5.	BHP Billiton	United Kingdom of Australia	3.233	5
6th	China National Nuclear Corporation	People's Republic of China	2,964	4th
7th	Rio Tinto Group	United Kingdom of Australia	2,440	4th
8th.	Navoi mining	Uzbekistan	2,404	4th
9.	SOPAMINE	Niger	1,450	2
10.	Paladin Energy	Australia	1,420	2
	rest		10,455	15th

After mines

The mine, the extraction method, the amount extracted (in tons) and the share of the mine in global production are listed.

Production in tons (2017)

rank	mine	country	Funding method	advancement	Percentage ownership %
1.	Cigar Lake	Canada	Underground	6,924	12
2.	McArthur River	Canada	Underground	6,193	10
3.	Tortkuduk	Kazakhstan	In-situ leach	3,519	6th
4th	Olympic Dam	Australia	Underground (by-product of copper extraction)	2,381	4th
5.	Budenovskoye 2	Kazakhstan	In-situ leach	2,359	4th
6th	Inkai	Kazakhstan	In-situ leach	2,202	4th
7th	Arlit	Niger	Open pit	2.116	4th
8th.	South Inkai	Kazakhstan	In-situ leach	2,037	3
9.	ranger	Australia	Open pit	1,945	3
10.	Budenovskoye 1,3,4	Kazakhstan	In-situ leach	1,940	3
	rest				47

World funding

World production in tons

year advancement 1991 43,342 1992 35,801 1993 31,296 1994 32,129 1995 33,300 1996 35,784 1997 35,692 1998 33,719 1999 31,065 2000 34,734

year advancement 2001 36,366 2002 36,036 2003 35,576 2004 40.178 2005 41,719 2006 39,670 2007 41,282 2008 43,853 2009 50,772 2010 53,671

year advancement 2011 53,493 2012 58,493 2013 59,331 2014 56,041 2015 60,304 2016 62,379 2017 59,462 2018 53,498 2019 53,656

Reserves and resources

Reserves by country

The countries with the largest uranium reserves (in kilotons) and their share of the world reserves (in percent) are listed. Reserves are understood to be the amount of raw materials that can be extracted at current prices and with today's mining technologies.

Reserves (<80 USD / kg) in kilotons (2016)

rank	country	Reserves	Percentage ownership %
1.	Canada	240	19.6
2.	Kazakhstan	229	18.7
3.	South Africa	168	13.7
4th	Brazil	156	12.7
5.	Mongolia	108	8.8
6th	People's Republic of China	95	7.8
7th	Ukraine	42	3.4
8th.	Tanzania	38	3.1
9.	Uzbekistan	37	3.0
10.	Russia	27	2.2
	rest	84	6.9
	world	1,224	100.0

Resources by country

The countries with the largest proven and technically recoverable uranium resources (in thousands of tons) are listed.

recoverable identified resources in thousands of tons (as of January 1, 2015)

rank	country	<40 USD / kg	<80 USD / kg	<$ 130 / kg	<$ 260 / kg
1.	Australia	k. A.	k. A.	1,664.1	1,780.8
2.	Kazakhstan	97.5	667.2	745.3	941.6
3.	Canada	251.2	321.8	509.0	703.6
4th	Russia	0	47.7	507.8	695.2
5.	Namibia	0	0	267.0	463.0
6th	South Africa	0	229.5	322.5	449.3
7th	Niger	0	17.7	291.5	411.3
8th.	Brazil	138.1	229.4	276.8	276.8
9.	People's Republic of China	98.9	206.3	272.5	272.5
10.	Greenland	0	0	0	228.0
11.	Uzbekistan	0	59.0	115.8	220.7
12.	Mongolia	0	141.5	141.5	141.5
13.	India	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	138.7
14th	United States	0	17.4	62.9	138.2
15th	Uzbekistan	58.2	58.2	130.1	130.1
16.	Czech Republic	0	0	1.3	119.3
17th	Botswana	0	0	73.5	73.5
18th	Tanzania	0	46.8	58.1	58.1
19th	Jordan	0	0	47.7	47.7
20th	Spain	0	0	0	33.9
	Germany	0	0	0	7.0
	rest	3.0	82.2	231.0	310.8
	world	646.9	2,124.7	5,718.4	7,641.6

Consumption by country

The countries with the highest consumption of natural uranium (in kilotons) and their share of global consumption (in percent) are listed.

Consumption in kilotons (2016)

rank	country	consumption	Percentage ownership %
1.	United States	18.16	28.6
2.	France	9.21	14.5
3.	Russia	6.26	9.9
4th	People's Republic of China	5.34	8.4
5.	South Korea	5.01	7.9
6th	Ukraine	2.25	3.6
7th	United Kingdom	1.73	2.7
8th.	Germany	1.69	2.7
9.	Canada	1.63	2.6
10.	Sweden	1.47	2.3
11.	Spain	1.27	2.0
12.	Finland	1.13	1.8
13.	Belgium	1.02	1.6
14th	India	1.00	1.6
15th	Slovakia	0.92	1.4
16.	Taiwan	0.78	1.2
17th	Japan	0.68	1.1
18th	Czech Republic	0.57	0.9
19th	Switzerland	0.52	0.8
20th	Hungary	0.36	0.6
	rest	2.41	3.8
	world	63.40	100.0

Uranium price

Monthly uranium price in US $ / lb U ₃ O ₈ (not adjusted for inflation) 1968–2007

Monthly uranium price from 1980

The following table shows the annual high, low and closing prices for uranium oxide (U ₃ O ₈ ) of the TradeTech Uranium Spot Price Indicator in US dollars per pound (454 grams). TradeTech and its predecessor NUEXCO have published uranium market prices since the establishment of the commercial nuclear fuel market in 1968.

year Peak Lowest point Final stand 1980 40.00 27.00 27.00 1981 25.00 23.50 23.50 1982 23.00 17.00 20.25 1983 24.00 21.50 22.00 1984 20.50 15.25 15.25 1985 16.00 11.70 11.70 1986 17.25 16.65 16.65 1987 17.00 16.65 16.65 1988 16.45 12.00 12.00 1989 11.60 9.00 9.00 1990 11.60 8.50 9.70 1991 9.50 7.25 7.40 1992 10.50 7.55 10.00 1993 10.35 9.80 9.85 1994 10.40 9.05 10.40 1995 11.90 10.78 11.85 1996 16.50 12.20 14.76 1997 14.49 10.25 12.50 1998 12.04 8.49 8.49 1999 10.85 9.01 9.64 2000 9.55 7.13 7.14 2001 9.50 7.10 9.50 2002 9.95 9.59 9.88 2003 13.35 10.10 13.35 2004 20.50 14.80 20.50 2005 35.53 20.54 35.53 2006 66.57 36.75 66.57 2007 136.22 72.00 91.80 2008 87.56 48.60 54.33 2009 51.50 41.72 44.44 2010 60.65 40.78 60.65 2011 65.00 50.68 52.18 2012 52.31 41.50 43.67 2013 43.41 34.45 34.61 2014 40.50 28.24 37.15

Web links

• Current uranium price
• Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials
• World Nuclear Association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Uranium 2014: Resources, Production and Demand. Ed .: IAEA
2. ^ ^{A b c d} World Nuclear Association: World Uranium Mining Production
3. ^ Austrian Ecology Institute: Return of uranium mining to Europe . Vienna 2008 (PDF; 3.6 MB)
4. ^ British Geological Survey: World mineral statistics archive
5. ^ World Nuclear Association: Uranium production figures
6. ↑ ^{a b} BGR Energy Study 2017. Accessed on June 2, 2018 . 
7. ^ Uranium 2016: Resources, Production and Demand - A Joint Report by the Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency. IAEA and NEA, 2016
8. ^ World Nuclear Association: World Nuclear Power Reactors and Uranium Requirements
9. ↑ DTI South Africa: Uranium, u3o8 restricted price
10. ^ Index Mundi: Uranium Monthly Price