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The Cluff Lake Board of Inquiry Final Report (1978)
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| Date | May 1978 |
| Classification | 3.02.5.10/04 (CANADA - URANIUM MINING) |
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From the publication:
PREFACE P .1 The Province of Saskatchewan now has two uranium mining operations: one comprising a number of underground mines at Uranium City and the other an open-pit mine at Rabbit Lake. Indeed uranium was first discovered in Saskatchewan in 1935 and mined commercially since the early 1950's without any public fuss or fury- until recently. This newly-arrived public stirring is not restricted to Saskatchewan. A similar reaction to nuclear development, by small but vocal and persistent groups, is taking place in Australia, France, Germany (West), Japan, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, and other places in the Western world. In Saskatchewan, it has helped to put a question mark behind uranium mining so that the central issue now has become: Should Saskatchewan permit new uranium mines to be developed within the province? P.2 All of this prompts a series of preliminary questions in the minds of the uninitiated. The first and basic one is: What is uranium? The simplest answer is that it is one of 92 naturally-occurring known chemical elements, each of which has been around since the creation of the earth. But, as this report attests, it is much more. P.3 Where is uranium found? Virtually everywhere: in all seawater, as well as in some groundwater, indeed, in the water some people drink; in Saskatchewan field- stone, cements and bricks, as well as in rocks in the Canadian Shield; in Canada as well as in other parts of the world. Concentrations vary and it is being retrieved from only those known locations where its abundance makes its retrieval commercially viable.
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