Located in south-central Wyoming, the Lost Creek in-situ recovery uranium facility is currently producing from the first ten header houses in mine unit one.
The one millionth pound was recently shipped to the conversion facility. It was the thirtieth shipment since August 2013, when production was started at the plant.
All production circuits of the plant were commissioned and uranium yellowcake had been processed, dried and packaged as of October 2013.
First sales of Lost Creek yellowcake were made in December 2013. In all six quarters since production operations started, the facility made product sales into contractual commitments.
During the first quarter 2015, 192,280 pounds of U3O8 were captured within the Lost Creek facility.
Ur-Energy vice president of operations Steve Hatten said: "The one million pound mark is a significant milestone in the operational achievements of this Project and we look forward to continued success in our future production efforts."
Ur-Energy is planning to start its 2015 drilling program with development work in mine unit two and further resource replacement drilling on the project.
The nameplate design capacity of the Lost Creek processing facility is two million pounds a year.
Image: Ur-Energy staff drum and ship one millionth pound of U3O8 at Lost Creek project. Photo: courtesy of Ur-Energy.
