Mines & Extraction · mine
Cigar Lake
Canada · Underground
- Opened
- 2014
- Region
- Saskatchewan
- Status
- Active
- Country
- Canada
- Type
- Underground
- Latitude
- 58.07
- Longitude
- -104.53
Notes
The highest-grade uranium orebody ever mined, around 15 % U₃O₈ — a hundred times a typical mine — so rich it is cut by remote jet-boring beneath frozen ground and never touched by hand.
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