RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:OH-OH--to late their going crazy---building a dyke is easy. Then a clay water barrier wall has to be made along the top of the dyke, and down through 50-100 meters of glaciofluvials and till. An unknown risk is large boulders in till that would dramatically slow down and increase cost of the clay wall. This clay wall only goes to the top of bedrock. There is no way to mitigate water ingress into an open pit from the top 50 meters of fractured bedrock. Water ingress volumes would be be very very large, and require a huge and costly water treatment plant, if volumes could even be handled:-0 (water from uranium open pits cannot be discharged without being treated). This alone could render the project uneconomic.
LinkLeisure wrote: Umm - I hold both NXE and FCU (more FCU - made more money on NXE earlier though) - FCU's highest grades and majorityof pounds are under lake yes - fairly easy, albeit expensive to dyke it - the lake is pretty darn shallow, so, yes snorkle and fins is all you really need, not scuba. And, FCU is starting to find very shallow, under land, high grade.
NXE is unlikely to have an open pit - sounds like you are just trying to bash FCU and Dev, on NXE forum. NXE is amazingly high grade and dense/rich, but significantly deeper - the sooner these two rivals/competitors get together and share costs of a mill and other infastructure the faster we all make lots more money.
Both are amazing deposits.