Gabrielle Cusumano (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
"The report is that the US has sold 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium that had been found in Iraq to Cameco, a Canadian company." Yomin Postelnil, Canada Free Press President Bush was Right, As Evidenced by This...
Forbes (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The Australian mining giant sells the exploration site to Canadian miner Cameco and Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp., for $495 million.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Rio Tinto PLC [s uk:rio] said on Thursday it signed an agreement to sell its Kintyre uranium project in Western Australia for $495 million to a joint venture that includes subsidiaries of Cameco Corp. and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd. "This sale brings us closer to achieving our asset sales target of US$10 billion in 2008, and is the third under a planned programme...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
RIO Tinto has struck a deal with Canada's Cameco and Japan's Mitsubishi to sell its Kintyre uranium project in Western Australia for $US496 million ($517 million) as part of its $US15 billion global asset sale.
Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Canada's Cameco, Mitsubishi Development pay $US495 for WA exploration project. 10 Jul 2008 4:35 AM
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
It was not your typical business meeting.Last February, a group of Cameco Corp. executives jetted to Paris for a secret rendezvous with officials from the government of Iraq.The topic of discussion was the Saskatoon company's interest in 550 tonnes of uranium, also known as yellowcake.
The Strong Conservative (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
It is beyond arguable now that Iraq had material which could be used to make weapons of mass destruction as details emerge of the sale of Iraqi yellowcake to a Canadian company, Cameco . CNN reports : The U.S. military spent $70 million ensuring the safe transportation of 550 metric tons of the uranium from Iraq to Canada, said Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman. The shipment, which until recently was...
Vive le Canada (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
A Canadian company that acquired a reported 550 tonnes of yellowcake uranium from Iraq says that the U.S. military wanted the deal to be kept quiet. "We were following the request of the U.S. government,'' Saskatoon-based Cameco Corp. spokesperson Lyle Krahn told The Canadian Press of the clandestine route the material took to get out of Baghdad and to Canada. The yellowcake has been described as...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
"Something is very odd here -- secret purchases of uranium from Iraq -- there is more to this story than what is public" Module body By The Canadian Press MONTREAL - A Canadian company that has acquired a massive amount of concentrated natural uranium from Iraq says the U.S military was behind the secrecy surrounding the transaction. Saskatoon-based Cameco Corp. purchased the reported 550 tonnes of...
Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
“NO WMDs!!!” Iraq has sold it’s Saddam-remnants to Canada. The 550 tonnes of “yellowcake,” the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment, was sold to Canadian uranium producer Cameco Corp. in a transaction the official described as worth “tens of millions of dollars.” Iraqi government officials sought buyers on the commercial market, where uranium prices spiked at about $120 per pound last...
Never Yet Melted (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium, capable of being enriched for use in nuclear power plants or bombs, arrived in Montreal on Saturday following a secret airlift and sea voyage. The uranium came from Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program, and was sold to Canada’s Cameco Corporation by the government of Iraq in a deal worth [...]
Market Wire - Manufacturing and Production: Mining and Metals (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN (MARKET WIRE) ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN CDN $
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
CASPER - Still dealing with multiple environmental violations at its Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ leach uranium mine, Cameco Resources Inc. has asked federal regulators to expand its permit boundary by 8,700 acres. The Bureau of Land Management announ ...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Cameco Corporation says it will start pumping water out of a flooded new uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan this week.
Stock Market Beat (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
According to the CNBC Stock Blog “Powering Your Portfolio: Uranium” what is uranium miner Cameco’s other business? Looking to miners, Canada’s Cameco (CCJ) has a market capitalization of more than $13 billion and is the world’s largest uranium producer. It also mines gold. Cameco scores average for each of the models I follow with the exception of [...]
