Aug 5 (Reuters) - Uranium Energy's ( UEC ) Sweetwater

Uranium Complex in Wyoming has been selected by the U.S.

government for a fast-tracked process of approval to add in-situ

recovery capability, it said on Tuesday.

In March, President Donald Trump had invoked emergency

powers to boost domestic production of critical minerals as part

of a broad effort to offset China's near-total control of the

sector.

The Uranium miner wants approval to use in-situ recovery

mining methods within the existing permit boundary and to expand

the boundary to include ISR-amenable deposits on nearby

federally managed lands.

In-situ mineral extraction combines drilling, rock

fracturing and chemical leaching directly at the drill site.

The Sweetwater facility has been added to the FAST-41

transparency dashboard, a federal initiative launched in 2015 to

streamline approvals of critical infrastructure, the company

said.

"On completing this tack-on permitting initiative,

Sweetwater will be the largest dual-feed uranium facility in the

United States, licensed to process both conventional ore and ISR

resin," CEO Amir Adnani said.

Sweetwater's uranium complex in Illinois has a 3,000 ton per

day conventional mill and an existing licensed capacity of 4.1

million pounds of U3O8 per year, the company said.

In April, the White House had said it would fast-track

permitting for 10 mining projects across the country as part of

Trump's push to expand critical minerals production.