加拿大的矿业集团Ｃａｍｅｃｏ公司日前宣布 ,已经开始对位于加拿大西部的世界知名的大铀矿进行矿业开采。这项价值 4 2亿加拿大元(约合 2 86亿美元 )的项目是麦克阿瑟河的铀矿 ,到 2 0 0 2年有望每年生产 80 0万ｔ铀。该铀矿的预计铀储存量为 2 1 9亿ｔ,其中一半以上的平均 Canadian mining group Cameco has announced that it has begun mining a large well-known large uranium deposit in western Canada. The project, worth 42 billion Canadian dollars ($ 28.6 billion), is MacArthur’s uranium mine and is expected to produce 8.0 million tons of uranium per year by 2002. The uranium deposit is estimated at 21.9 billion tonnes of uranium, more than half of which is on average