Inkai uranium mine
| Inkai uranium mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Mining technology | In situ method | ||
| Funding / year | 2,047 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company |
Cameco (60%) Kazatomprom (40%) |
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| Employees | about 550 | ||
| Start of operation | 2010 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Uranium ore | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 45 ° 16 '55.7 " N , 67 ° 32' 11.6" E | ||
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| Location | Taikonur | ||
| area | Turkistan region | ||
| Country | Kazakhstan | ||
| District | Chu Sarysu Basin | ||
The Inkai uranium mine ( Russian Инкаи ) is a mine for the extraction of uranium ore in northern Turkistan near the town of Taikonur. The Inkai uranium mine is a joint venture between the Canadian company Cameco and the Kazakh company Kazatomprom . Uranium mining began in 2010. With 2,047 tons of uranium in 2013, Inkai is the third largest uranium mine in Kazakhstan.
geography
The mine is located in the north of the Turkistan region near the town of Taikonur. It is about 370 kilometers north of Shymkent and 125 kilometers east of Kyzylorda .
Occurrence
There are several sandstone uranium deposits of various sizes in the Turkistan region . The Inkai uranium mine consists of three areas: two production sites and one exploration site. The entire mine has uranium reserves of 134.7 million pounds of uranium ore. Farther south of this mine is the South Inca uranium mine operated by SXR Uranium One together with Kazatomprom.
history
The uranium deposits of the Inkai uranium mine were discovered in 1976. The joint venture was officially registered with the Kazakh Ministry of Justice on March 21, 1996. It was established as a German-Canadian-Kazakh joint venture between the German Uranerzbergbau-GmbH, a company of RWE AG, as well as Cameco and the National Joint Stock Company Atomic Power Engineering and Industry “KATEP” (KATEP). Each of the three companies had a third share in the joint venture. After the establishment of the Kazatomprom company , the shares of KATEP were transferred to Kazatomprom by agreement on March 5, 1998. In the same year Cameco acquired the stake in Uranerzbergbau-GmbH and increased its stake in Inkai to more than 66 percent. In November 1998, Cameco agreed to reduce its stake to 60 percent and to increase Kazatomprom's stake to 40 percent.
Production at full capacity from a production capacity of 2,000 tons of uranium began in 2010.
See also
Web links
- Information about the Inkai uranium mine at Cameco
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cameco: JV Inkai Main Process Plant Startup Ceremony ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ world-nuclear.org: World Uranium Mining Production (English)
- ↑ Uranium One: South Inkai Uranium Mine ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Cameco: Inkai Technical Report 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, PDF)
