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Southern Utah uranium producers hope Trump’s trade decision will benefit them

Tim Peterson | LightHawk Utah's Red Canyon near Bears Ears National Monument was once a busy uranium mining district, but has fallen silent in the face of low commodity prices even as the BLM authorized a major expansion of the idled Daneros Mine located in Bullseye Canyon, pictured in the middle distance of this aerial photograph. The Trump administration is now considering a petition from the mine's owner, Energy Fuels Resources, to require the nuclear power industry to buy at least 25 percent of its uranium from domestic sources in the hopes of raising prices and breathing life into the uranium industry centered in northern Arizona and southeast Utah.