Uranium 2007
Resources, Production and Demand
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Canada
Nuclear Energy Agency
Uranium exploration in Canada began in 1942, with the focus of activity first at Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories where pitchblende ore had been mined since the 1930s. In the post war period, exploration in the Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan and in the Elliot Lake region of Ontario led to the development of additional mines. In the late 1960s exploration returned to the Athabasca Basin where large high-grade deposits were discovered and later developed. The last of the Elliot Lake mines closed in the 1990s and Saskatchewan is now the sole producer of uranium.
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