AREVA Still Sold On Ore Haul Route Idea

AREVA Still Sold On Ore Haul Route Idea

Friday, June 04, 2010 at 14:58

 

 

More consultations are scheduled for this fall to examine a plan by AREVA Resources to truck uranium ore past the communities of Pinehouse and La Ronge to the McClean Lake mill.

 

AREVA spokesman Alun Richards acknowledges the company has heard some concern from residents about the idea at a series of recent consultation meetings.

 

The company shut down its milling facility at McCLean Lake in December.

 

AREVA had said it hoped to restart the mill once the Cigar Lake mine began operations.

 

However, the company that owns Cigar Lake, Cameco, has pushed back its proposed start date to the middle of 2013 because of the effort that is needed to remediate the flooding there in recent years.

 

Richards says AREVA hopes to begin hauling the ore in 2012 if everything goes as planned.

 

The company has already said it wants to build a road from McArthur River to McClean Lake.

 

But Richards says that will take some time, and the company would like to get started before that happens.

 

Richards adds if the idea is accepted, the company would haul the ore over a three-year period.

 

He says a new hauling road between the mine and mill would probably be ready after that.