Tummalapalle is part of a large tabular, strata bound and flatly dipping uranium reserve occurring in carbonate host rock in YSR district of Andhra Pradesh. The lodes as well as the parting in between are narrow. A highly mechanised underground mine has been opened up using state of the art technology through three numbers of 9-degree Declines. The central Decline …
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Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman Srikumar Banerjee said that the most valuable uranium ore in the country was in M. Tummalapalle inYSR (Kadapa) district. He formally launched an uranium ore mine and processing plant at M. Tummalapalle in Vemula mandal of YSR(Kadapa) district on Friday.
Read More »Sitting on arguably the world’s largest uranium reserves, Andhra Pradesh will soon join the uranium mining map, with work at Tummalapalle plant set to start in a couple of months. According to Mr N.M. Bahl, head of the Hyderabad office of Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL),
Read More »The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has developed an innovative techno-economically viable process for the recovery of low-grade Uranium (less than 0.2 per cent) from the Tummalapalle ore in YSR district. “The objective of making a techno-economically viable process flowsheet is to reduce the number of stages of unit operations and conservations leachants by regeneration and recycle leading to minimisation of …
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Pulivendula (Telugu: పులివెందుల or పులివెందల), the headquarters of the taluk, is situated on the road from Kadiri to Muddanur, being twenty-seven miles north of Kadiri and twenty-three miles south of Muddanur railway station. It is a fast developing town in the district with a population of more than 1,00,000. It is also famous for its local fund dispensary (Santa). Story …
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