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Cameco Corporation (formerly Canadian Mining and Energy Corporation) is the world's largest publicly traded uranium company, based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. [2] In 2015, it was the world's second largest uranium producer, accounting for 18% of world production.
The mine is owned by Cameco (70%), and Orano Canada (30%) (formerly Areva Resources Canada, formerly COGEMA Resources Inc.) Cameco is the mine operator. In 2012, McArthur River was the world's largest producing uranium mine, accounting for 13% of world mine production. [1] Canada, as a whole, produces 15% of the world's uranium production.
The Key Lake mine is a former uranium mine in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is 570 kilometres (350 mi) north of Saskatoon by air on the southern rim of the uranium-rich Athabasca Basin . Key Lake was initially developed to open-pit mine two nearby uranium ore deposits: the Gaertner deposit and the Deilmann deposit.
Cameco operates two mines at Cigar Lake and McArthur River in Saskatchewan and one of the largest commercial refineries in the world in Ontario.
Cigar Lake (50% Cameco / 37% AREVA) is a huge facility in Saskatchewan that is expected to go live in 2014. At full capacity it could produce 18 million pounds of U308 per year.
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 .
Cameco's business segments include uranium production capacity (it has three large operations, two in Saskatchewan and one in Kazakhstan), a uranium fuel services business (supplying, refining ...
Prairie Mines & Royalty Ltd. Big Quill Lake Potassium Sulphate: Wynyard: Compass Minerals: Boundary Dam Lignite: Estevan: Prairie Mines & Royalty Ltd. Chaplin: Sodium sulphate: Chaplin: Saskatchewan Minerals Inc. Cigar Lake Mine: Uranium Cameco Orano Canada TEPCO. 2005-