UEC Brings Burke Hollow into Production as U.S. Uranium Mining Regains Ground

Uranium Energy Corp. has started production at Burke Hollow, bringing the South Texas ISR project into operation after securing the necessary state approvals.

The start-up gives UEC a second active in-situ recovery platform in the United States and marks the first new ISR uranium mine to enter production in the country in more than a decade.

Burke Hollow is significant not only because it is new production, but because of where it sits inside UEC’s operating structure. Uranium from the project is set to be processed through the Hobson Central Processing Plant, which anchors the company’s South Texas hub-and-spoke ISR platform. That model lowers the need for standalone processing duplication and gives new production a shorter path into an existing uranium recovery system.

The project itself carries meaningful scale. UEC has described Burke Hollow as America’s largest greenfield ISR uranium project and, in updated technical reporting, materially increased the project’s mineral resources. Earlier company disclosures showed measured and indicated resources of 6.155 million pounds U3O8 and inferred resources of 4.883 million pounds at Burke Hollow, reinforcing the significance of the start-up beyond the initial production headline.

For the broader uranium market, the development reflects a more important shift in U.S. supply strategy. Domestic uranium production has been rebuilding through restart and ISR expansion rather than through large new conventional mines. Burke Hollow fits that pattern closely: a lower-footprint ISR project, tied to established infrastructure, moving into production at a time when utilities and policymakers are placing greater weight on domestic nuclear fuel security.