By paNOW Staff

Clean up continues at Northern mine site

Feb 25, 2011 | 12:07 PM

The province is paying an extra $36.2 million towards the clean-up of an abandoned uranium mine in Northern Saskatchewan.

The Saskatchewan Research Council has been managing the process for the past four years and they have identified additional remediation work required on the site.

Project costs have increased beyond the original estimates, developed prior to 2004.

The Gunnar site is in the Uranium City area.

The so-called “Cold War legacy mine” was a small, short-term mining operation in the '50s and ‘60s that was abandoned following the competition of operations.

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According to the province this happened during a time when environmental controls for decommissioning and reclaiming such sites were limited or non-existent.

Responsibility for bringing the site up to today's standards cannot be placed with the mining companies involved since they no longer exist.

The federal government is expected to commit equal funding to the Gunnar clean-up.

ahill@panow.com