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Coordinates: 46°28′20.4″N 082°33′35.37″W / 46.472333°N 82.5598250°W

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Stanrock Mine
Location
Stanrock Mine Location in Ontario
Location	Elliot Lake
Province	Ontario
Country	Canada
Coordinates	46°28′20.4″N 082°33′35.37″W / 46.472333°N 82.5598250°W / 46.472333; -82.5598250
Production
Products	Uranium
Production	6.4 Mt ore
History
Opened	1958
Closed	1985
Owner
Company	Denison Mines

The Stanrock Mine is an historical uranium mine located approximately 11.5 km northeast of Elliot Lake, Ontario, owned by Denison Mines. The site has been decommissioned and rehabilitated with ongoing monitoring by Denison Environmental Services.

the site was in operation from 1958 to 1964 as a traditional mining operation. Following the end of large scale drilling and blasting operations, the mine continued production using a leaching technique which utilized water and bacteria. Production contracts were fulfilled by 1970 and all operations ceased. The property was sold to Denison Mines in the early 1970s Total production was 6.4 million tonnes of ore.^[1]

Other mines in the area

References

^ Jan 1966 Ontario Dept. of Mines Annual Review

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v t e Uranium mining in Ontario
Elliot Lake Mines	Buckles Mine Can-Met Mine Denison Mine Lacnor Mine Milliken Mine Nordic Mine Panel Mine Pronto Mine Quirke Mine Spanish American Mine Stanleigh Mine Stanrock Mine
Elliot Lake mines' owners	Rio Algom BHP (parent company of Rio Algom) Denison Mines Uranium Participation Corporation (contracting to Denison Mines) Korea Electric Power Corporation (15% owners of Denison Mines)
Elliot Lake Mines' politics and people	1974 Elliot Lake miners strike Royal Commission on the Health and Safety of Workers in Mines Franc Joubin Joseph Hirshhorn Serpent River First Nation United Steelworkers
Bancroft Area Mines	Faraday Mine/Madawaska Mine Dyno Mine Bicroft Mine Fission Mine Greyhawk Mine
Bancroft mines' owners	Ovintiv
Bancroft mines' politics & people	Arthur H. Shore Henry Joseph Maloney
Organisations & events	Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission International Atomic Energy Agency Bancroft Rockbound Gemboree
Agnew Lake	Agnew Lake Mine Kerr Addison Mines Ltd.
Main articles	Uranium mining in the Elliot Lake area Uranium mining in the Bancroft area

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