Joint venture partners Orano Canada and Denison Mines have restarted uranium operations at McClean Lake in Canada, now using a patented mining method known surface access borehole resource extraction, or Sabre.

Orano Canada owns a 77.5% interest and is the operator of the McClean Lake joint venture and Denison owns a 22.5% interest. The McClean Lake property is within the eastern part of the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan.

Orano and Denison announced last year that they planned to restart uranium mining operations at McClean Lake.