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1998

Cameco Announces Fourth Quarter Dividend (December 8, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation announced today that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.125...
   
Cameco Announces Production Slowdown  (November 24, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation today announced it is decreasing uranium production to reduce spending in response to continuing low uranium prices and to ensure a smooth transition to its future McArthur River and Cigar Lake mines...
   
Cameco Announces Nine-Month Financial Results For 1998  (October 30, 1998)
  "During the first nine months of 1998, despite weak uranium and gold prices, Cameco provided strong cash flow and continuing profitability."
   
Kumtor Reaches Production Milestone of One Million Ounces Gold  (October 21, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation is pleased to announce that the Kumtor gold mine has achieved a production milestone of one million ounces...
   
Cameco Announces Completion of Preferred Securities Offering  (October 14, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation today announced that it has completed an offering in the United States of $125 million (US) of preferred securities. Each security represents $25 (US) principal amount of junior subordinated debentures with a term of 49 years and an interest rate of 8.75%...
   
Cameco to Offer $125 Million (US) of Preferred Securities  (October 2, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation today announced that it has filed a preliminary prospectus with the Saskatchewan Securities Commission and a registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission for an offering in the United States of $125 million (US) of preferred securities...
   
Information on the May 20, 1998 Truck Accident and Sodium Cyanide Spill  (September 29, 1998)
  Following a truck accident which resulted in a spill of sodium cyanide in Kyrgyzstan May 20, 1998, a scientific commission of international experts was assembled at the request of the Kyrgyz Republic to assess the impact...
   
Cameco Completes Uranerz Acquisition  (August 11, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation is pleased to announce it has acquired 100% of Uranerz Exploration and Mining Limited (UEM)...
   
Cameco Announces Third Quarter Dividend (July 29, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation announced today that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.125 (Cdn) per share...
   
Cameco Announces Second Quarter Financial Results For 1998 (July 24, 1998)
  This news release combines the information previously contained in the quarterly news release and the printed quarterly report. This new format will allow Cameco to distribute the information more efficiently to shareholders and other interested parties...
   
International Scientists Agree Barskoon Safe (June 10, 1998)
  Kumtor Operating Company (KOC), today confirmed that it has received copies of reports from a number of the international health experts and environmental scientists who have been assembled in Kyrgyzstan at the invitation of the government to collect, analyse and review the data surrounding the release of sodium cyanide into the Barskoon River following a truck accident on May 20, 1998...
   
Truck Accident Information Supplied To Media (June 9, 1998)
  On June 9, 1998, Cameco provided the media with additional information regarding the truck accident in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia that resulted in a spill of sodium cyanide on May 20, 1998 (see previous news releases). There is still no evidence available to the experts which suggests a link between cyanide and the reported illnesses and deaths...
   
Accident Update from Kumtor Operating Company (June 4, 1998)
  Kumtor Operating Company (KOC) today confirmed that it has received reports that a woman from the village of Barskoon has passed away while being treated in the hospital in Karakol...
   
Kumtor Helps Barskoon Village (May 29, 1998)
  Kumtor Operating Company (KOC) today reported providing medicines amounting to approximately $5,000 to the Barskoon hospital. The patients started coming to the hospitals two days after the sodium cyanide leakage incident of May 20, 1998...
   
Cameco Announces Second Quarter Dividend (May 28, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation announced today that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.125 (Cdn) per share payable on July 15, 1998 to shareholders of record on June 30, 1998...
   
Cameco Updates Status of Truck Accident in Kyrgyzstan (May 26, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation today reports an update on the status of a traffic accident in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia May 20 which resulted in a spill of granular sodium cyanide into the Barskoon river...
   
Water in Lake Issyk-Kul and The Barskoon River is Safe (May 25, 1998)
  Kumtor Operating Company (KOC) today reported that on May 22, 1998, the content of sodium cyanide in the water of Lake Issyk-Kul and the Barskoon river is less than that provided in the norms established by Kyrgyz legislation...
   
Cameco Confirms Traffic Accident in Kyrgyzstan (May 21, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation today confirms that a traffic accident in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia has resulted in a spill of granular sodium cyanide into the Barskoon river...
   
Cameco Announces First Quarter Financial Results For 1998 (April 27, 1998)
  This news release combines the information previously contained in the quarterly news release and the printed quarterly report. This new format will allow Cameco to distribute the information more efficiently to shareholders and other interested parties...
   
Cameco Acquires Uranerz Exploration and Mining Limited & Uranerz U.S.A., Inc. (April 17, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation today announced that it has entered into an agreement in principle to purchase Uranerz Exploration and Mining Limited (UEM) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Uranerz U.S.A., Inc. (UUS), Denver, Colorado from their parent company, Uranerzbergbau GmbH (UEB) which is jointly owned by Preussag AG and Rheinbraun AG. Rheinbraun is a wholly owned subsidiary of RWE AG and is responsible for mining and raw materials development within the RWE group. Preussag is one of Germany's largest industrial concerns and RWE is Germany's largest electrical utility. The purchase price is $483 million (Cdn) in cash, subject to closing adjustments...
   
Federal and Provincial Governments Support Development of Cigar Lake (April 3, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation today confirmed the Saskatchewan and Canadian governments have agreed that the Cigar Lake uranium project can advance to the next stage of the regulatory approval process...
   
Cameco Announces 1997 Financial Results (February 6, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation reported today annual earnings from operations increased by 4% to $151 million in 1997 despite the significant decline of about 23% in the average uranium spot price from the previous year...
Also: 1997 Financial Statements
   
Cameco Achieves Record Production in 1997 (January 27, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation today released 1997 production results showing record production of both uranium and gold and setting site production records at several operations...
   
Blind River Sets Eight-Year Safety Record (January 26, 1998)
  Cameco Corporation's Blind River refinery continues to be a leader in the Canadian uranium industry as it marks eight years without a lost-time accident. The facility is also one of the world's leaders for safety performance in the uranium conversion business...
   
Highland Uranium Operation Reaches 10-Million Pound Milestone (January 5, 1998)
  Power Resources, Inc. is pleased to report that the Highland uranium operation, located in Converse County, Wyoming, has reached a 10-year, 10-million pound U3O8 production milestone. The Highland operation, which utilizes the environmentally benign and cost competitive in-situ leach method of uranium recovery, began commercial operations in January 1988, and has grown to become the largest uranium production operation in the United States. Highland achieved record annual production of 1.5 million pounds U3O8 in 1997. Production in 1996 was 1.2 million pounds U3O8....