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After that, it will take another two months to start the operations," UCIL chairperson and managing director CK Asnani said. Uranium extracted from Jaduguda accounted for 25% of the country's raw material for nuclear power generation at the time UCIL suspended its operations. UCIL has been quarrying Jaduguda, the country's first uranium mining site, since 1967. JAMSHEDPUR: Four years after the uranium mine at Jaduguda was shut following operating licence violations by the state-owned Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL), the mine is set to resume operations.Maintenance work at the quarry began on Monday. The Prime Minister acceded to the demand, UCIL paid Rs 7 crore and the paperwork for mining operations to resume started moving fast.Finally, last month, UCIL received a letter from the office of the director general of mines, Chaibasa, confirming Jaduguda as a "safe quarry" where operations can start again..