Cigar Lake mine
Christopher T. Hanson, chair of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission vists the Cigar Lake uranium mine, 2023 | |
Cigar Lake mine Location in Saskatchewan | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Location | Athabasca Basin |
| Province | Saskatchewan |
| Country | Canada |
| Coordinates | 58°04′07″N 104°32′26″W / 58.06861°N 104.54056°W |
| Production | |
| Products | triuranium octoxide (U 3O 8) |
| Production | 4,600 t (10,100,000 lb) |
| Financial year | 2020 |
| History | |
| Discovered | 1981 |
| Opened | 2014 |
| Owner | |
| Company | |
| Website | Official site |
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. The deposit, discovered in 1981, is second in size of high-grade deposits only to the nearby McArthur River mine. Other deposits, such as the Olympic Dam mine in Australia, contain more uranium but at lower grades.