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

Aerial shot of Cameco's Cigar Lake mine

14 January 2015
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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.

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