Cameco (NYSE: CCJ) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Cameco is a uranium sector leader focused on sustainable mining and clean-energy initiatives worldwide.
Cameco
Cameco is a Canadian nuclear fuel provider specializing in uranium mining, refining, conversion, and fuel manufacturing services for electrical utilities worldwide. The company holds controlling interests in high-grade, low-cost uranium reserves and mining operations, primary in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, and Kazakhstan. Beyond primary extraction, its fuel services division processes uranium concentrate into uranium trioxide, uranium hexafluoride, and fuel assemblies. The company also maintains strategic equity investments across the broader nuclear power value chain, including co-ownership of Westinghouse Electric Company and Global Laser Enrichment, providing reactor technology, plant servicing, and advanced enrichment solutions to international nuclear power generators.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Cameco
- Uranium Mining & Extraction: Operation of high-grade uranium mines, including controlling ownership in the Cigar Lake and McArthur River/Key Lake joint ventures in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, alongside joint venture interests in the Inkai in-situ recovery operation in Kazakhstan.
- Uranium Refining & Conversion: Commercial processing of uranium concentrate into uranium trioxide at the Blind River refinery and subsequent conversion into uranium hexafluoride and uranium dioxide at facilities located in Port Hope, Ontario for global commercial reactor delivery.
- Nuclear Fuel Fabrication: Production of natural uranium fuel bundles and specialized reactor components at facilities in Port Hope and Cobourg, Ontario, serving CANDU heavy-water nuclear power plants and commercial reactors across domestic and international utility markets.
- Nuclear Reactor Technology Services: Strategic joint-ownership of Westinghouse Electric Company, providing nuclear power plant design, original equipment manufacturing, plant maintenance, outage support, field services, and specialized nuclear fuel assembly engineering to utility operators globally.
- Enrichment Technology Development: Equity participation in Global Laser Enrichment to commercialize laser-based separation technology for uranium enrichment and re-enrichment applications, targeting future supply of commercial nuclear fuel and high-assay low-enriched uranium material.
- Uranium Exploration & Development: Evaluation and advancement of advanced-stage uranium exploration properties and undeveloped mineral deposits, including the Millennium project in northern Saskatchewan and the Yeelirrie and Kintyre uranium projects located in Western Australia.
Cameco executive team
- Mr. Timothy S. GitzelCEO & Director
- Dr. Grant E. Isaac Ph.D.President & COO
- Ms. Heidi ShockeySenior VP & CFO
- Mr. Sean Anthony QuinnSenior Advisor
- Mr. Brian Arthur Reilly B.Sc., M.B.A., M.Sc., P.Geo.Senior Advisor
- Mr. C. Scott Bishop P. Eng.Director of Technical Services
- Mr. Cory KosVice-President of Investor Relations
- Mr. Ronald Liam MooneySenior VP & Chief Legal Officer
- Lisa Lorene AitkenSenior VP & Chief Marketing Officer
- Ms. Rachelle GirardSenior VP & Chief Corporate Officer