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Uranium mining in Colorado, United States, goes back to 1872, when pitchblende ore was taken from gold mines near Central City, Colorado. The Colorado uranium industry has seen booms and busts, but continues to this day.
Uravan (a contraction of uranium/vanadium [2]) is a former uranium mining town [3] in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States, which still appears on some maps.The town was a company town established by U. S. Vanadium Corporation in 1936 to extract the rich vanadium ore in the region.
Uranium mining in southwest Colorado goes back to 1898. The Uravan district of Colorado and Utah supplied about half the world's radium from 1910 to 1922, and vanadium and uranium were byproducts. The last producing uranium mine in the state, the Topaz Mine, part of the Sunday Complex near Uravan, Colorado , was closed down on March 18, 2009 ...
Tom Talbert discovered the yellow uranium-vanadiaum of the Colorado Plateau on Roc Creek, near the town of Uranium. [60] [61] Western Colorado is the country's oldest uranium mining area. [62] 1880 Leadville Colorado's first labor strike required intervention by the state militia. [46] 1879 molybdenum Climax Molybdenum was discovered in 1879 ...
The Colorado Plateau holds major uranium deposits, and there was a uranium boom in the 1950s. The Atlas Uranium Mill near Moab has left a problematic tailings pile for cleanup. As of 2019 [update] , 10 million tons of tailings had been relocated out of an estimated 16 million tons. [ 9 ]
Paradox Valley is a basin located in western Montrose County in the U.S. state of Colorado.The dry, sparsely populated valley is named after the apparently paradoxical course of the Dolores River—instead of flowing down the length of the valley, the river cuts across the middle and through the sheer walls of large mesas on either side. [1]
Uranium is a widely distributed metal with large low-grade deposits that are not currently considered profitable. As of 2015, 646,900 tonnes of reserves are recoverable at US$40 per kilogram of uranium, while 7,641,600 tonnes of reserves are recoverable at $260 per kilogram. [ 2 ]
Climax Uranium Mill is a decommissioned uranium mill near Grand Junction, CO.. The mill, which processed vanadium as well as uranium, was incorporated on May 11, 1950. It was constructed on city-owned property next to the Colorado River which was once the Grand Junction sugar beet mill.