Cameco
Sign in to saveAlso known as Cameco Corp, Cameco Corporation, Canadian Mining and Energy Corporation
Cameco Corporation (formerly Canadian Mining and Energy Corporation) is the world's largest publicly traded uranium company, based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 2015, it was the world's second largest uranium producer, accounting for 18% of world production.
OverviewAI-generated
Cameco is a publicly traded uranium company established in 1988. It is described as one of the world's largest entities in this sector. The organization is also known by the alias Canadian Mining and Energy Corporation.
Cameco is located in Saskatoon, Canada. Its status is active, and it is classified as both a company and a funder.
Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Cameco Corporation
- Company.former_name
- Canadian Mining and Energy Corporation
- Company.logo
- Cameco Logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 150px
- Company.image
- Cameco2.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Head office in Saskatoon, Canada
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.hq_location
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Company.key_people
- Catherine Gignac (Board Chair) Tim Gitzel (Chief Executive Officer)
- Company.industry
- Mining, energy
- Company.products
- Uranium, electricity
- Company.num_employees
- 2,640
- Company.num_employees_year
- 2023
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1988
- Location
- Saskatoon, Canada
- Also known as
- Canadian Mining and Energy Corporation
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.410433.1 · ISNI 0000 0004 0499 1454
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- public company
- Country
- Canada
- Headquarters
- Saskatoon
- Industry
- mining
- Revenue
- 1475000000
- Stock exchange
- Toronto Stock Exchange
- Official website
- www.cameco.com
- Image
- Cameco.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- inception
- 1988-00-00
- social media followers
- 2239
- Commons category
- Cameco
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Operations
- Tax Dispute
- See also
- References
- External links
[Skip to main content](https://www.cameco.com/#main-content)
Cameco is one of the largest global providers of the uranium fuel needed to power a safe, secure energy future. Our competitive position is based on our controlling ownership of the world’s largest [high-grade reserves](https://www.cameco.com/invest/overview/reserves-resources/proven-probable "Proven and Probable Reserves") and low-cost [operations](https://www.cameco.com/businesses/uranium-operations "Uranium Operations") , as well as significant investments across the nuclear fuel cycle, including ownership interests in [Westinghouse Electric Company](https://www.cameco.com/businesses/westinghouse-nuclear "Westinghouse") and [Global Laser Enrichment](https://www.cameco.com/businesses/global-laser-enrichment "Global Laser Enrichment") . Utilities around the world rely on Cameco to provide global [nuclear fuel](https://www.cameco.com/businesses/fuel-services "Fuel Services") solutions for the generation of safe, reliable, carbon-free nuclear power.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cameco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.