Where uranium comes from

World capacity by operator

World total 60,213 tU/yr (2024). Actual production, not capacity. Source: World Nuclear Association, World Uranium Mining Production.

The world’s uranium mines

Ranked by production normalised to tonnes of uranium, with operations that publish no production at the end. Not every mine on earth: the ones here are every operation the sources name in every country the World Nuclear Association lists as a producer. Figures come from different reporting years. Canada, Namibia, Russia, Niger and Olympic Dam publish per mine for 2024; Kazakhstan publishes its individual operations only through 2022, and its 2024 output appears here under the consolidated groupings the source reports. The order beyond the top ten is indicative rather than exact. ¹ Four Mile is reported in tonnes U₃O₈ and normalised at 1 t U₃O₈ = 0.848 tU, with both values kept on its page. Yining shows nameplate capacity rather than output, because China does not publish per-mine production.

What this table accounts for

The world produced 60,213 tU in 2024. The 47 operations listed above cover every country the source names as a producer, but only 25 of them state an output figure, together 52,279 tU, about 87% of world production. The rest is not missing mines. It is countries that publish a national total and nothing per operation, so putting an output against their mines would mean apportioning a number nobody measured.

National production is World Nuclear Association, World Uranium Mining Production for 2024, including its own "Others" residual line. The stated-output column adds up the figures on this page, which come from different reporting years, so it will not reconcile exactly against a single-year national total even where every mine in a country is listed: Australia's figure here mixes 2022, 2024 and a financial year ending in June 2025. Rows with operations listed but no output are countries where the operator publishes capacity or nothing at all.