Anfield Energy Inc. has advanced state permitting for the JD-8 uranium and vanadium mine in Montrose County, Colorado, after receiving a completeness determination and staff recommendation for approval from the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety.

The state authority determined that the reclamation permit application meets the requirements of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Act and recommended that the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board approve the application. A formal public hearing is scheduled for the Board's October 14–15, 2026, meeting in Denver.

Subject to board approval and remaining operational readiness work, Anfield is targeting a restart of uranium and vanadium production at JD-8 by the end of the second quarter of 2027. The JD-8 project covers approximately 28.3 acres located approximately 11 miles west of Naturita, Colorado, within Department of Energy Uranium Leasing Program lease tracts as a past-producing conventional underground mine within the Monogram Mesa Mine Complex.

Velvet-Wood in Utah remains the company's first mine advancing toward production, with JD-8 and Slick Rock intended as the next mines in Anfield's hub-and-spoke model. Ore from the operations will be shipped to the Shootaring Canyon Mill in Utah, with no on-site processing proposed in the JD-8 application. Upon completing JD-8 state reclamation permitting, Anfield intends to focus on advancing additional Colorado mine permitting at JD-7 and Slick Rock.

“DRMS’s recommendation that the Board approve the JD-8 permit is a major permitting milestone. Colorado DRMS is the primary state authority for this mine-plan decision, and the October Board hearing puts us in a defined decision window. JD-8 is planned as Anfield’s second mine after Velvet-Wood, with a targeted restart by the end of Q2 2027, after which we intend to advance both JD-7 and Slick Rock. This is concrete progress toward domestic conventional production feeding our Shootaring-centered hub-and-spoke strategy.”

— Corey Dias, Anfield CEO

Read the full announcement: Anfield Energy Receives Colorado DRMS Completeness Determination and Staff Recommendation for Approval of JD-8 Mine Permit; Board Hearing Set for October 14-15, 2026