UN offers aid for Bolivia to exploit uranium

The United Nations announced on Friday its disposition to cooperate with Bolivia on the exploration and exploitation of uranium mines.

The official in charge of the UN atomic energy program, Mohamed El-Baradei, said after a meeting with Bolivian President Evo Morales that apart from the exploration of uranium mines, the Bolivian government is also evaluating the UN aid programs of health, animals diseases, improvements of the agriculture production, sustainable use of the water resources.
Meanwhile, the National Service of Geology and Mining (Sergeomin) identified 11 locations with uranium in natural state in the district of Cotaje between the towns of Huari in Oruro and Sevaruyo in the border area between both departments and Mulato River in Potosi.

But technical reports say that those are not uranium concentrated beds, but “small points”; and the amount of the reserves are unknown due to lack of investment in the quantification work.

Xinhua