Cameco is a mining company based out of Saskatoon with mining operations in Saskatchewan. As one of the world's largest uranium fuel providers, Cameco generates energy in carbon-free nuclear reactors and believes in the need for future clean air electrical generation. In January 2018, two of Cameco's operations—Key Lake and …
DetailsLocated about 35 km northeast of the Key Lake mill and 35 km southwest of the McArthur River mine, the project is a joint venture between Denison and JCU (Canada) Exploration in a 90-10 split. Denison acquired 50% of JCU in 2021, giving it 95% of Wheeler River. The project comprises the high-grade Phoenix and Gryphon deposits. Phoenix …
DetailsAnd the pattern is similar across the uranium-mining region of Northern Saskatchewan, one of the richest sources of uranium in the world. On a continent that can go years without a major wolf attack, the area has hosted three suspected wolf attacks on adult men in 12 years. The attacks are all within 100 km of one another, and thus within the ...
DetailsTwo uranium projects in Saskatchewan's Athabasca basin moved closer to construction this week, with NexGen Energy (TSX: NXE; NYSE: NXE; ASX: NXG) reporting strong interest from lenders in funding its $1.3-billion project and Fission Uranium (TSX: FCU; US-OTC: FCUUF) submitting an application for construction of a new mine and …
DetailsUranium prices touched a 15-year high of $74.50 per lb. last week as the demand to replace fossil fuels increases. About 60 nuclear plants are under construction in countries such as China, Russia ...
DetailsThe Patterson Lake South (PLS) uranium project is a proposed underground mine in Saskatchewan, Canada, by Fission Uranium. A pre-feasibility study (PFS) for the PLS property was completed in September 2019 while the feasibility study, which commenced in June 2021, was completed in January 2023. Highlights of the …
DetailsThe Saskatchewan Research Council has been contracted to manage the clean-up of these abandoned northern uranium mine and mill sites. The Gunnar Mine, because of the magnitude of tailings and waste rock, is subject to an environmental site assessment process regulated by both provincial and federal governments.
DetailsMine and Mill Sites. During the 1950s and 1960s, uranium mines and small prospecting sites were developed and operated across northern Saskatchewan by private companies. The sites and mining operations were later abandoned with little consideration to environmental protection or aesthetics. At that time, there was insufficient environmental ...
DetailsSaskatchewan's Athabasca Basin currently supplies about 20% of the global uranium market. It is mined out in ore 10 to 100 times more uranium rich than any other deposits found on Earth. This is of …
DetailsIn the 1950s, as uranium mining boomed in northern Saskatchewan, there was a debate about whether to build small communities around the mines or a central community serving a larger set of mines (a
DetailsNorthern Saskatchewan is home to the world's largest high-grade uranium deposits. Saskatchewan was the world's second-largest producer in 2022, according to World Nuclear Association data, with total sales reaching nearly $1 billion. The province accounted for 15 per cent of the world's primary uranium production in the year and employed ...
DetailsIn February 2019, the CNSC received an initial project description from NexGen Energy Ltd. for its proposal to construct and operate a new underground uranium mine on the Patterson Lake peninsula in the southwestern Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan, approximately 155 km north of the town of La Loche.
DetailsREGINA — Saskatchewan's nearly $1 billion-a-year uranium industry made Canada the world's second-largest producer in 2022, according to World Nuclear Association (WNA) data. This puts the province ahead of previous frontrunners including Namibia and Australia. In 2021, Canada ranked third, while Kazakhstan has consistently …
DetailsDenison, focused on uranium further north in the Athabasca Basin will pay up to C$15.1 million for the interest, in cash payments of up to C$3.1 million. It will also fund project costs of up to C ...
DetailsOrano Canada has been exploring for uranium, developing mines and producing uranium concentrate for more than 60 years. Headquartered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, we are a leading producer of uranium in Canada. The Orano-operated McClean Lake mill is a unique facility that allows for the processing of high-grade uranium ore without dilution.
DetailsInvestors should heed growing supply after uranium's recent runup. Uranium prices surged from just over US$50 per lb. in April 2023 to more than US$100 per lb. by January 2024. Since then, there has been a moderate pull-back; …
DetailsABSTRACT The Millennium uranium deposit is located within the Athabasca Basin, in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The deposit is hosted within moderately dipping Paleoproterozoic gneisses that are unconformably overlain by more than 500 m of flat lying, porous Paleoproterozoic to late Mesoproterozoic Athabasca Group sandstones. The …
DetailsThe mines of northern Saskatchewan make Canada the world's leading uranium producer. Canada supplied 29% of global demand, or 11.60 million tonnes of the metal in 2004. Here are two bright ideas – how to mine an orebody by neither pit nor underground method, and how to mine high-grade ore without miners – that Cogema and Cameco are ...
DetailsThe Saskatchewan Research Council is defending its work on the cleanup of an abandoned uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan, following Ottawa's claim that the SRC's plans are "not cost-effective ...
DetailsMcClean Lake uranium mine in Canada to resume production. The McClean Lake operations are in the eastern part of the Athabasca Basin, in northern Saskatchewan. ( Image courtesy of Denison Mines ...
DetailsInvestors should heed growing supply after uranium's recent runup. Uranium prices surged from just over US$50 per lb. in April 2023 to more than US$100 per lb. by January 2024. Since then, there has been a …
DetailsSkyharbour has acquired from Denison Mines, a large strategic shareholder of the Company, a interest in the Moore Uranium Project which is located 15 kilometres east of Denison's Wheeler ...
DetailsDenison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE: DNN) and joint venture partner Orano Canada said on Wednesday they will restart the McClean Lake mine, located in the uranium-rich Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan, amid improving project and commodity economics.. Operations at McClean Lake, owned by the namesake joint …
DetailsUranium City, municipal corporation, centre of the Beaverlodge Lake mining region in extreme northwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. It lies near the north shore of Lake Athabasca. The discovery in the early 1950s and the subsequent mining of uranium ore there by the Eldorado Mining and Refining Company.
DetailsNexGen Energy (TSX: NXE; NYSE: NXE; ASX: NXG) has reported high-grade uranium assays east of its main Arrow deposit in northern Saskatchewan that are stronger than the first Arrow discovery hole a decade ago.. The Patterson Corridor East (PCE) discovery hole RK-24-183 cut 13.5 metres grading 0.78% uranium oxide (U 3 O …
DetailsSRC is managing Project CLEANS, the remediation of 37 abandoned uranium mine and mill sites in northern Saskatchewan. This includes the decommissioning and reclamation of uranium mine and mill sites and the cleanup of waste rock piles and tailings. SRC has project managed the closure and reclamation activities from assessments and closure …
DetailsThe company is the owner and developer of the PLS uranium project – a proposed high-grade mine and mill located in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada. The company is headquartered in ...
Detailswatersheds in the Uranium City area of northern Saskatchewan are seriously contaminated with uranium and selenium. Most of the contamination dates back to the 1952‐1982 period when Eldorado Nuclear Ltd., a federal crown corporation, operated numerous mining
DetailsNicholson's discovery of uranium was the first in the Lake Athabasca region, and indeed the first in Saskatchewan. In 1948, Nicholson Mines sent a test shipment of material to the Eldorado refinery at Port Hope, Ontario. The results were encouraging, and Nicholson Mines started shipping shaft-sinking equipment and supplies over the frozen ...
DetailsCameco has operated mines and mills in northern Saskatchewan for more than a quarter century. Uranium products from Saskatchewan's north are used exclusively to generate clean electricity in nuclear power …
DetailsSRC is managing the Gunnar Mine and Mill Site remediation, as well as 36 other abandoned uranium mine sites in northern Saskatchewan. Learn more about Project CLEANS. This is a …
DetailsThe Patterson Lake South uranium project is located in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Fission Uranium fully owns and is developing the project, which hosts the Triple R uranium deposit. Fission Uranium conducted two pre-feasibility studies (PFS) for the project, including one that proposed combination of open-pit and …
DetailsDownload. Uranium in Saskatchewan 2020 Fact Sheet. Cameco Corporation and ORANO Canada are the two uranium producers in Saskatchewan, producing all of Canada's uranium. For additional information on the Saskatchewan uranium mining industry, please visit the following websites:
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