How slick water and black shale in fracking combine to produce radioactive waste. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 09 / 180918154831.htm.

The black shale units have a strike length of approximately three kilometers; however, the unit is noted to pinch and swell and may disappear beneath shallow tertiary cover.

Black shale uranium refers to uranium deposits found within black shale rock formations. Navoiuran has been operating since 2022, when it was hived off from the Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Plant.