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The Athabasca Basin is a region in the Canadian Shield of northern Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada. It is best known as the world's leading source of high-grade uranium and currently supplies about 20% of the world's uranium. [1] The basin is located just to the south of Lake Athabasca, west of Wollaston Lake, and encloses almost all of Cree ...
Denison Mines Corp. is a Canadian uranium exploration, development, and production company. Founded by Stephen B. Roman , and best known for its uranium mining in Blind River and Elliot Lake , it later diversified into coal , potash , and other projects.
The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a long-contested project that largely has sat dormant since the 1980s.
The highest grade uranium deposits are found in the Athabasca Basin in Canada, including the two largest high grade uranium deposits in the world, Cigar Lake with 217 million pounds (99,000 t) U 3 O 8 at an average grade of 18% and McArthur River with 324 million pounds (147,000 t) U 3 O 8 at an average grade of 17%. These deposits occur below ...
By Francois Murphy. VIENNA (Reuters) -Iran has informed the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it plans to install more than 6,000 extra uranium-enriching centrifuges at its enrichment plants and bring ...
Uranium enrichment is getting underway this week at a facility in southern Ohio, a federally authorized demonstration project considered critical to produce the type of fuel needed for newer, more ...
The Cigar Lake Mine is a large high-grade underground uranium mine, located in the uranium-rich Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan, Canada, at the south-west corner of Waterbury Lake. [2] The deposit, discovered in 1981, is second in size of high-grade deposits only to the nearby McArthur River mine.
Time and again, a mining company promised to clean up uranium waste in New Mexico. Now it wants to buy out residents and avoid full cleanup. Their town was polluted with radioactive waste.