Madawaska Mine (Faraday Mine) | |
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Madawaska Mine
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Location | Bancroft |
Province | Ontario |
Country | Canada |
Production | |
Products | Uranium |
History | |
Opened | 1954 |
Closed | 1982 |
The Madawaska Mine is an abandoned underground uranium mine near the town of Bancroft, Ontario which produced 9,492,171 pounds of U3O8 during its two periods of production.[1]
From 1954 to 1964 it operated as the Faraday Mine, and after it reopened as the Madawaska mine in 1975, production continued to 1982. The shaft into the uranium-bearing pegmatite reached a depth of 473 metres (1,552 ft).[2]
The mine is currently decommissioned, and a mass of 4,000,000 tonnes of uranium tailings remains at the surface at the mine site.[3]