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Cigar Lake hits production record

Cameco’s Cigar Lake operation in Saskatchewan, Canada, has reached a production record: 0.34Mlb of uranium concentrate was produced from milling Cigar Lake ore in 2014, and packaged production is expected to be 6-8Mlb in 2015

Carly Leonida
Aerial shot of Cameco's Cigar Lake mine

Aerial shot of Cameco's Cigar Lake mine

Mining at Cigar Lake began in March 2014, and the first uranium concentrate was packaged at the McClean Lake mill, operated by AREVA Resources Canada, in October. Ore mined at Cigar Lake is transported...

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