The company has completed 40 injection and production wells thus far, which completed Phase One in the development of PAA-1.
The wells will be brought on-stream in three approximately equivalent phases as part of the build-up to initial sustainable levels of production.
Construction of Palangana’s ion-exchange satellite facility is also underway with pumps and tanks to be installed in mid-September.
The company has also completed drilling and flow-testing the Class 1 non-hazardous waste disposal well, known as WDW 419 that is needed for the Palangana project.
WDW 419 is permitted for injection of by-product solutions generated during in-situ recovery of uranium and during restoration of the field.
The well was drilled and cased to a depth of 6,950ft in June and July, and it was perforated in early August with two perforation intervals.
The well has now been flow-tested using filtered brine at several rates ranging between 42 and 176 gallons per minute at wellhead pressures ranging from 0, or a vacuum, up to 300 pounds per square inch, and was successful from applying these modest wellhead pressures.
WDW 419 is in the top 99 percentile of all Class I uranium wells based on superb flow rates at modest injection pressures, the company said.
