The Cigar Lake uranium mine, in Canada’s northern Saskatchewan, will remain on care-and-maintenance for an “indeterminate period”, uranium producer Cameco announced on Monday, explaining that it sought to keep the remote isolated communities in which it workers live safe during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The group further said that it was difficult to maintain the recommended physical distancing at a fly-in, fly-out site.
Cameco announced on March 23 that the Cigar Lake operation was being placed in safe care-and-maintenance mode for four weeks, during which we would assess the status of the situation and determine whether to restart the mine or extend the production suspension.