‘Government tempted by Košice’s uranium’

Nearly 5.5m tons of high quality uranium ore is thought to lie under Jahodná, just 15km from Slovakia’s second biggest city, Košice. The government has already signed a provisional deal on extraction with a Canadian mining company, which performed exploratory drilling.

The daily notes that opponents of mining in Košice, a popular holiday resort, say “it is a dirty trick against the local administration and Košice’s inhabitants who have already expressed their unhappiness with extraction.”