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Dyno Mine: Cardiff: Ovintiv: 1958–1960 Fission Mine: Cardiff 1920s–1940s Greyhawk Mine: near Bancroft Ovintiv: 1957–1959, 1976–1982 Madawaska Mine (previously Faraday Mine) Faraday: Ovintiv: 1954–1964, 1975–1982 Elliot Lake: Agnew Lake Mine: Hyman Township Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. 1977–1983 Buckles Mine: near Elliot Lake Rio Algom ...
A miner hauling a car of silver radium ore, 340 feet below the surface, Eldorado Mine of Great Bear Lake circa 1930. Canada is the world's second-largest producer of uranium, behind Kazakhstan. [1] In 2009, 20% of the world's primary uranium production came from mines in Canada. [2] 14.5% of the world production came from one mine, McArthur ...
This part is a tribute to all the miners who died as a result of working in the uranium mines. The same year, the Ontario Workmen's Compensation Board studied 15,094 people who worked in the uranium mines around Elliot Lake and Bancroft for at least one month, between 1955 and 1974. Of those 15,094 people, 94 silicosis cases were found in 1974 ...
Mine Location Main owner Year discovered Year commenced Grade %U [2] Annual production (tOre) [3] Annual production (tU) [4] Type of mine [5] Don Otto: Salta: Globe Uranium: 1958: 0.15 [6] Presently shut down Cachocira (Cactite) 1999: 0.3: 340: OC Engenlio (Cactite) 2006: OC Australia [7] (See Uranium mining in Australia) Mine Location Main ...
The following lists of mines in Canada are subsidiaries to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output and province.
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 ...
Canada is the world's largest producer of uranium with about one third of world production coming from Saskatchewan mines. There are two major players in the uranium mining sector. Cameco operates the McArthur River mine, which started production at the end of 1999.
The portals and vents to the underground mines were closed and the TMA was contoured, covered and revegetated. All structures were dismantled and disposed of." [1] In July 2019, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission: renewed Orano's uranium mine licence renewal by five years, though until July 31, 2024. As per their 2020 report: