Maybe Genesis picked the NP claims because they are the only ones in the area that can be mined using this process?
"In-situ Recover (ISR) Mining (also known as In-situ Leach or ISL) While not all uranium ore deposits are amendable to ISR, it is the preferred method to extract uranium since it is far cheaper to get the ores out of the ground and it is considered more environmentally friendly than traditional underground or open pit mines.
In the United States, ISR involves:
pumping water from the formation and adding oxidant such as gaseous oxygen. For some units, a carbonate phase such as sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is added to the solution to make ieasier for uranium to go into solution. Ideally, the pH of the solution is somewhere between 6.5 - 7.0 (close to neutral). This solution oxidizes the uranium in porous sandstones and make it easier to go into solution. the oxygen-rich solution is pumped down injection wells within a wellfield pattern, the solution moves through the rock dissolving the uranium in the ground, wells at prescribed distance from the injection wells pump uranium-enriched waters to the surface, These wells pump more fluid than is put down the hole to create a "cone of depression," This is to minimize the chance of off-site migration of these uranium- and mineral-enriched waters, There are monitoring wells surrounding these wells to check on break through of uranium- and mineral-enriched waters, these waters are treated and filtered to remove the uranium, and the treated waters are refreshed with oxidant and cabonates (if needed) and sent back down hole to start the process again. after uranium has been depleted to its economic limits, regulations require ISR operations in the United States to be restored to prescribed standards to try to assure that potable sources of water are not impacted".
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