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After mining, the uranium ore was treated in acid leaching plants located at the mines. The leaching process produced yellowcake high-grade uranium compounds which were either processed further at the Port Hope refinery or sold to the US government for processing in that country. Processing uranium ore from Bancroft cost $3.00 per ton [10]: 95
Mining operations occurred from 1954 to 1964 by Faraday Uranium Mines Limited with the mine being known as the Faraday Mine. [2]In January 1956, a contract was agreed with Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited to buy the uranium, triggering an economic boom in the area, with houses for company executives being built at nearby Bow Lake and 40 houses for workers being built on the company's land ...
Dyno Mine is a decommissioned underground uranium mine located at Cardiff, near Farrel Lake, approximately 30km southwest of Bancroft, Ontario. It operated from 1958 to 1960. It operated from 1958 to 1960.
Uranium Faraday: 1957–1959, 1976–1982 Underground Ovintiv: Richardson Mine: Gold Eldorado: 1867–1869 Underground John Richardson (leased to Marcus Herbert Powell), Lombard and Hardin, Kim Woodside Silver Crater Mine: Betafite: Cardiff 1925–1955 Open-pit, underground Bancroft Mica and Stone Products Mining Syndicate, Silver Crater Mines
Bancroft: Bicroft Mine: near Bancroft Barrick Gold: 1957–1963 Dyno Mine: Cardiff: Ovintiv: 1958–1960 Fission Mine: Cardiff 1920s–1940s Greyhawk Mine: near Bancroft Ovintiv: 1957–1959, 1976–1982 Madawaska Mine (previously Faraday Mine) Faraday: Ovintiv: 1954–1964, 1975–1982 Elliot Lake: Agnew Lake Mine: Hyman Township Kerr Addison ...
Bicroft Mine is a decommissioned underground uranium mine, located in Cardiff, near Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. It is one of fourteen former uranium mines in Ontario that is monitored by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and one of twenty in Canada. Aside from uranium, the mine has also produced globally renowned samples of Kainosite-(Y).
Bancroft (/ ˈ b æ ŋ k r ɒ f t /) is a town located on the York River in Hastings County in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was first settled in the 1850s by descendants of the United Empire Loyalists and Irish immigrants. From the mid-1950s to about 1982, mining was the primary industry.
Greyhawk Mine is a decommissioned underground uranium mine located in Faraday Township near Bancroft, Ontario. It operated from 1954 to 1959 and from 1976 to 1982. The mine produced 80,247 tons of uranium ore, of which 0.069% was U 3 O 8 worth $834,899. Aside from uranium, the mine has produced some of the world's best samples of Kainosite-(Y).