40 Years After the Eldorado Mine Closed, Uranium City Residents, Past and Present, Still Meet Up for Reunions

https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/article/it-was-a-beautiful-place-to-live-years-later-former-residents-still-call-uranium-city-home-in-their-hearts

Fortune Bay’s Goldfields Project

Companies have been in and out of Goldfields since the late ’80s, hoping to re-open the gold mine that closed at the dawn of WW2. Gold prices have never been right, many companies simply weren’t serious: drilling was a way to raise money on the notorious Vancouver Stock Exchange, then fold and disappear. But Fortune […]

Excite Expands Uranium City Mining Projects

I tend not to repost the mining reports that cross my gmail feed. I have a subscription set up for any news item that mentions Uranium City. Most of it is either irrelevant or trivial. Mining companies have been going in and out of the Uranium City area for decades, including multiple companies have tried […]

The explorer who trekked across Lake Athabasca in the winter to visit Uranium City

Power Outages in Uranium City and region and Wildfires to the south-east of Uranium City

JJ Bougie, from Uranium City, reports: Weather may in our favour for the next few days, the wind and rain may help slow down that fire. Hopefully no new ones flare up with that thunderstorm we had here last night. Power is out here as well, running a generator right now. As of the post, […]

Northerner with dreams of becoming a pilot tours Rise Air

A young man who dreams of one day becoming a pilot celebrated his 19th birthday on Wednesday with a special tour of Rise Air operations in Saskatoon. Alex Adams, who lived for most of his life in the small, remote northern community of Uranium City, has been fascinated with flying since he was a child. He […]

Appia Rare Earths and Uranium Announces New Cooperation Agreement with the Y’thi Nene Lands and the Resource Office

The latest twist on the tortuous search for another mine in the Uranium City area: https://www.juniorminingnetwork.com/junior-miner-news/press-releases/2122-cse/api/154966-appia-rare-earths-uranium-corp-announces-new-cooperation-agreement-with-the-ya-thi-nene-lands-and-resources-office.html

Northern Ice Road Construction Gets Underway After Temperatures Drop

After record warm temperatures over the Christmas season, temperatures recently plunged to below -40 at night. Cold yes, but this means the lake ice will finally be thick enough for the ice road to open in a few weeks: https://www.mbcradio.com/2024/01/northern-ice-road-construction-getting-underway-as-temperatures-drop

Record Warm Temperatues across Saskatchewan for Boxing Day, including Uranium City

Latest record high: Uranium City -3.1 C (-3.3, 2005) Full article: https://www.westcentralonline.com/articles/record-temperatures-wrap-up-last-week-of-2023

If people in Saskatchewan want a white Christmas they might have to go to . . . Uranium City

David Phillips, Environment Canada’s senior climatologist, said 2023 could bring one of the brownest Christmas holidays the province has ever had. “I look at the map of snow cover on the ground and there’s no part of the province (covered in snow),” Phillips said. “It’s probably going to be the greenest – or brownest – […]