Uranium Energy Corp (UEC) has received approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and begun production at its Burke Hollow project In Texas, the world’s newest in-situ recovery (ISR) uranium mine and the first new US ISR operation in over a decade.

Texas-Based UEC said only about half of the approximately 20,000-acre (8,000 hectares) property has been explored to date, providing significant long-term development potential.

Production from Burke Hollow will be processed at the Hobson Central Processing Plant, which is licensed to produce up to four million pounds of uranium per year.