Slurry of activity

摘要

At the site of the Cigar Lake uranium mine in Canada's uranium-rich Athabasca Basin, around 660 km north of Saskatoon, work is continuing on a revised schedule set in 2009, after flooding of the underground workings in 2006. Following the receipt of an eight-year operating licence from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) in June, operator Cameco expects mining to begin any day now. The second of four jet boring systems, which will use high-pressure water jets to carve out cavities in the orebody, throughout the life of the mine, has been delivered to the site and assembled underground. Work is also progressing well at surface facilities (which include the ore slurry load-out building, maintenance facility and freeze plant), as well as on the underground infrastructure (see figure 2) needed for mining to begin.