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An innovative jet boring mining method available for the high grade uranium ore underground deposits
Description
An innovative mining method, based on the capability of a high pressure water jet to desaggregate rock, has been conceived and tested with success at the highest grade uranium ore deposit in the world, the Cigar Lake deposit in Saskatchewan, Canada. 113 tonnes of ore at 13% U were mined out by a new jet-boring mining method operated on a semi-industrial basis, in 1992 during the test mining program of Cigar Lake Project. (author). 9 figs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Innovations in uranium exploration, mining and processing techniques, and new exploration target areas. Proceedings of a technical committee meeting held in Vienna, 5-8 December 1994
- Imprint Pagination
- 148 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 119-132.
- ISSN
- 1011-4289
- Report number
- IAEA-TECDOC--868
Conference
- Title
- Technical committee meeting on innovations in uranium exploration, mining and processing techniques, and new exploration target areas.
- Dates
- 5-8 Dec 1994.
- Place
- Vienna (Austria).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 27055877
- Subject category
- S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BACKFILLING; CANADA; EXCAVATION; MAPS; MINING; UNDERGROUND MINING; URANIUM DEPOSITS; URANIUM MINES; URANIUM ORES
- Descriptors DEC
- DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; MINES; NORTH AMERICA; ORES; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES