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Mine in Operation as of June 2017 Bienfait Lignite Lignite: Bienfait: 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
In 1980 the province of British Columbia introduced a seven-year ban on uranium mining and exploration, which was not renewed. [10] In 2008, the government established a "no registration reserve" under the Mineral Tenure Act for uranium and thorium. This excludes uranium and thorium from any mineral licences in the province.
The McArthur River Uranium Mine, in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, is the world's largest high-grade uranium deposit. 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 ...
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 ...
The first mine in the area was the Rabbit Lake Mine, which was discovered in 1968 by Gulf Mineral Resources and opened in 1975. The most important current mine is Cameco's McArthur River mine, the world's largest high-grade uranium mine. Other uranium mines in the Athabasca Basin include the Cigar Lake Mine, the Key Lake mine and the McClean ...
In 1954, the local newspaper, The Uranium Times, noted that 52 mines were operating and 12 open-pit mines were next to Beaverlodge Lake. [2] Initially, most of the residences in Uranium City were simply tents. Some of the mines operating in the area included the Gunnar Mine, the Lorado Mine, and the Fay-Ace-Verna Mine in Eldorado, Saskatchewan.
Rabbit Lake is the second largest uranium milling facility in the western world, and is the longest-operating uranium production facility in Saskatchewan.The facility is located approximately 800 km north of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on the northeast edge of the uranium rich Athabasca Basin.
Type of mine Midwest Uranium Mine: Saskatchewan: Areva Resources Canada Inc. 1978: 4.4: OC Kiggavik Uranium Project: Nunavut: Areva Resources Canada Inc. 0.41: UG Millennium Uranium Deposit: Saskatchewan: Cameco: 3.9 India: Mine Location Main owner Year discovered Scheduled Commencement Grade %U Planned Annual production (tOre) Planned Annual ...