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McArthur River / Key Lake mine

McArthur River / Key Lake mine, Canada. Producing, underground, mining uranium since 1999.

Why McArthur River / Key Lake is famous

McArthur River mine (in service since 1999) feeds the Key Lake mill (since 1983). Ore is mined 530 to 640 m below surface. Together they have produced 583 million lb of U3O8 on a 100% basis.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Unconformity-related uranium

McArthur River / Key Lake today

Where uranium is mined todayMining in Canada

Where next

Mines

Same kind of depositCigar LakeBoth Saskatchewan uranium mines: Cigar Lake at 480 m, McArthur River at 530 to 640 m.3

Deposit types

An example ofUnconformity-related uraniumOre from 530 to 640 m down feeds the Key Lake mill.1

Sources

  1. McArthur River and Key Lake operation page Cameco Corporation
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. Cigar Lake operation page Cameco Corporation

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: The laboratories of Marie and Pierre Curie, Paris: room where experiments on uranium ore took place. Photograph, ca. 1900., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Elektrisk malmletning. Undersökningar på Billiton, 1920., Okänd / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).