Rod Eggert, professor and Viola Vestal Coulter Chair in Mineral Economics at Colorado School of Mines, was recently interviewed by the Phoenix New Times about the global uranium market for a story about the uranium deposits near the Grand Canyon and the possiblity of the Trump administration lifting or revising a 2012 moratorium on any new mining claims in the area.
From the story:
Though the breccia pipes in the Grand Canyon area are thought to be some of the best deposits in the country, they're only estimated to be about only 1 percent uranium.
"I don't think anyone is arguing that these deposits are the best undeveloped deposits in the world," Rod Eggert, a mineral economist at the Colorado School of Mines says. The important question, he continues, is whether "these deposits are commercially viable."