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Mine in Operation as of June 2017 Bienfait Lignite Lignite: Bienfait: Prairie Mines & Royalty Ltd. Big Quill Lake Potassium Sulphate: Wynyard: Compass Minerals: Boundary Dam Lignite: Estevan: Prairie Mines & Royalty Ltd. Chaplin: Sodium sulphate: Chaplin: Saskatchewan Minerals Inc. Cigar Lake Mine: Uranium
The Kindersley area in south-central Saskatchewan produces light crude oil using hydraulic fracturing from Saskatchewan's portion of the Bakken Formation, which also produces most of North Dakota's oil. The Swift Current area in southwest Saskatchewan produces mostly conventional oil. The Weyburn area in southeast Saskatchewan produces oil ...
Saskatchewan Oil & Gas Corporation, or SaskOil, was established in 1973 by the Government of Saskatchewan as a Crown corporation. [1] It was the first state-owned oil and gas company in North America, founded by Saskatchewan New Democratic Party Premier Allan Blakeney . [ 2 ]
Mining is also a major industry in the province, with Saskatchewan being the world leader in potash and uranium exports. [32] Saskatchewan is rich in minerals. Oil and natural gas found beneath the prairie, prove to be one of the province's most important minerals. The area north of Lake Athabaska has been exploited for ores yielding uranium.
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List of mines in Saskatchewan; C. Canada's Deadly Secret; Coal mining in Saskatchewan; H. Hoidas Lake This page was last edited on 27 September 2019, at 00:16 ...
The mine is owned by Cameco (70%), and Orano Canada (30%) (formerly Areva Resources Canada, formerly COGEMA Resources Inc.) Cameco is the mine operator. In 2012, McArthur River was the world's largest producing uranium mine, accounting for 13% of world mine production. [1] Canada, as a whole, produces 15% of the world's uranium production.
The mine operated from 1981 [1] and used both open pit and underground extraction. [2] Mining infrastructure consisted of a central mill, above ground tailings management area, 3 open pits, 2 underground mines, associated waste rock piles, and site infrastructure including the Cluff Lake airstrip and residences. [2]