Reply #26: This is a strange "Coals to Newcastle" story; independent confirmation .. [View All]

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... might be nice.

... The shipment was destined for smelting in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, delivered via Bandar Abbas, Iran’s biggest port ...

Proposed classification: Things that make you go Hmmm ...

Deposits of Kazakhstan

The resources of Kazakhstan contain about 19% of explored reserves of uranium in the world – which is around 1,5 million tons. Dozens of uranium deposits discovered on the territory of Kazakhstan are different in terms of formation conditions and practical value. The deposits grouped in the following six uranium provinces ... http://www.kazatomprom.kz/cgi-bin/index.cgi?p26&version=en

New Uranium Mining Projects - Asia ... Iran ...

Saghand mine
... The Saghand uranium mine project is situated 185 km north-east of the city of Yazd, covering an area of 20 hectares. The detail exploration, completed in 1994, was concentrated on two important anomalies called no. 1 and 2, resulting in a calculated reserve of 1.58 million metric tonnes of uranium ore, at an average grade of 533 ppm (0.0533% U). This corresponds to a total uranium contents of 842 metric tonnes of U ...

Bandar Abbas deposit
Iran's nuclear chief Gholamreza Aghazadeh said on May 3, 2006, studies show there are considerable amounts of uranium ore at Bandar Abbas, mineable in open pits. According to first estimates, an annual production of 30 t of U3O8 seems to be possible, at lower mining cost than at Saghand. (AFP May 3, 2006) ... http://www.wise-uranium.org/upasi.html#IR

So the claim here is that uranium is being smuggled out of a closed mine in Africa to be sent to Kazakhstan (with perhaps the largest uranium deposits in the world) via a port in a uranium producing region of Iran, another country with significant uranium deposits. And this is supposedly detailed in an unidentified UN report that no other news agency knows about, in a story cowritten by Jon Swain, who has previously helped catapult nuclear propaganda ...