Cigar Lake mine

Cigar Lake mine
Location
Cigar Lake mine is located in Saskatchewan
Cigar Lake mine
Cigar Lake mine
Location in Saskatchewan
LocationAthabasca Basin
ProvinceSaskatchewan
CountryCanada
Coordinates58°04′07″N 104°32′26″W / 58.06861°N 104.54056°W / 58.06861; -104.54056
Production
Productstriuranium octoxide (U
3O
8)
Production4,600 t (10,100,000 lb)[1]
Financial year2020
History
Discovered1981
Opened2014
Owner
Company
Websitecameco.com/businesses/uranium-operations/canada/cigar-lake Edit this at Wikidata
Cutaway diagram of the Cigar Lake uranium deposit, showing the layers of rock surrounding the uranium ore

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. Other deposits, such as Olympic Dam in Australia, contain more uranium but at lower grades.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference cameco2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada. "Place names - Waterbury Lake". www4.rncan.gc.ca.
  3. ^ http://www.ippnw.org/pdf/uranium-factsheet3.pdf [bare URL PDF]