Canada's uranium production recovers

The world's second biggest uranium-exporting country has overcome a period of low ore grades and operation problems to reach production levels last seen in 2005.

Recent years have been lean due to low ore grades at the McClean Lake mine and various equipment and process problems at the Key Lake mill. However, figures gathered by the World Nuclear Association put Canada's uranium production in the last year at 11,997 tonnes of uranium oxide (tU3O8).

This level, last seen from Canada in 2005, represents about 22% of world production and places Canada second to Kazakhstan's 16,400 tU3O8 production, but ahead of Australia's 9413 tonnes.

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