[5] In 2012, the EPA was considering a permit for the Church Rock mine,[6] which had a large uranium spill contaminating the Puerco River and washing downstream to the Navajo Nation in 1979 when it was owned by the United Nuclear Corporation.

Since 2007, Westwater Resources had invested in exploration and development of its uranium projects in Turkey, namely in Temrezli and Sefaatli.

[13] However, after repeated attempts to make contact with the Turkish government, the company filed a request for arbitration with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) as a result of Turkey's unlawful actions.

It lies about 25 miles southwest of Sylacauga, Alabama and covers 41,900 acres of land at the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains.

[18] Westwater anticipates a full scale mining rate of 577,000 short tons per year, at an average grade of 3.2% graphite.

Westwater plans to use bulldozers, excavators, loading equipment, and 45-ton haul trucks to bring the material to the processing plant, by which point they will have replaced the outsourced graphite supply with their own.

[21] In 2022 the company broke ground at the Kellyton Graphite Processing Facility in Coosa County, Alabama.

[27] Vanadium is primarily found at the Coosa Graphite Project in the form of Roscoelite,[28] a greenish mineral in the mica group.