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Uranium in Saskatchewan

Production in 2007

Source: Saskatchewan uranium producers

To convert tonnes of uranium to pounds of U₃O₈, multiply tonnes by 2,599.8

Numbers may not reflect total due to rounding.

* Ore from McArthur River is trucked to Key Lake where it is then fed into the Key Lake mill and produced into yellowcake.

• Canada's uranium is used exclusively for the generation of electricity at nuclear power plants. End use is strictly enforced by international non-proliferation agreements and export restrictions.

• Over the last three decades, uranium has been an important Canadian energy resource used in nuclear power reactors providing one of the cleanest sources of energy available today.

• Nuclear power provides about 16% of Canada's electricity.

• Canada is the world's largest producer of natural uranium, producing approximately 22% of total world production. All of the uranium production in Canada comes from Saskatchewan mines.

• The annual uranium production from Saskatchewan contains more energy than the energy contained in all of Canada's annual oil and natural gas production combined.

• Over 80% of the uranium shipped from Saskatchewan mines goes to non-Canadian markets for the generation of electricity.