2023-12-12 18:38:46
A uranium mine in northern Canada. Scott Prokop/Scott Prokop – stock.adobe.com
DECRYPTION – The world’s second largest producer plans to open a gigantic mine in Saskatchewan.
Montréal
A seaplane flies over a town, surrounded by forests and lakes, on the borders of Saskatchewan and the Arctic. This is a black and white shot of Uranium City in the 1950s. At the time, this town of 5,000 people prospered thanks to uranium mines and boasted of being served by DC-3, of having 20 taxis and 22 kilometers of paved roads. Uranium City has become a ghost town since the mines were abandoned in the 1980s, but the province of Saskatchewan dreams of a new uranium rush.
This region of central Canada, slightly larger than France per 1 million inhabitants, should host the Rook 1 project, a gigantic uranium mine, in the Athabasca basin, on the edge of Alberta. Its Canadian promoters, the Vancouver mining company NextGen Energy, predict the largest uranium mine in the world, with an operating life of 24 years, and which should represent 23% of global uranium production.
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