Inside Saskatchewan's Cigar Lake Mine, a 'Boutique' Operation with Abundant Uranium
The mine produces 8 million kilograms a year and supplies buyers in Ontario, the United States, Europe and Asia, Cameco said.
- Cameco's Cigar Lake mine operates as a 'boutique mine' in Northern Saskatchewan, shipping high-grade uranium concentrate to buyers in Ontario, the United States, Europe, and Asia, General Manager Kirk Lamont said.
- With 46 percent of employees identifying as Indigenous and 45 percent residing in Northern Saskatchewan, Cameco has signed collaboration agreements with First Nations communities focusing on jobs and development.
- Jet Boring System operator Taryn Roske spends 13 hours underground daily in a workforce about 12 percent female, while radiation student technician Cessa Fern navigates the mine's intense conditions.
- Operating on treaty territory, the company treats mining water before returning it to Waterbury Lake, where Lamont said "the water that goes in is clean."
- Mining in the Athabasca basin continues to inspire generational families, as the industry remains one of few significant employment opportunities available to residents of Northern Saskatchewan.
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Inside Northern Saskatchewan's 'small but high-grade' uranium mine
Fern is one of more than 400 employees and contractors at Cameco's Cigar Lake mine, located in the rugged boreal forest 660 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon. She and others spoke about their work at a recent tour of the mine, which is home to the world's richest lode of uranium.
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CIGAR LAKE, SASK. - Cessa Fern's day begins with being squished into metal cage with 19 others, and dropped to a depth greater than the height of New York’s Empire State Building into a dark world of rock walls, pipes…
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Inside Saskatchewan's Cigar Lake mine, a 'boutique' operation with abundant uranium
CIGAR LAKE, SASK. - Cessa Fern's day begins with being squished into metal cage with 19 others, and dropped to a depth greater than the height of New York’s Empire State Building into a dark world of rock walls, pipes and wires.
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