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Other uranium mining companies built housing adjacent to the town to take advantage of its location and infrastructure. The townsite was sold off in an auction in the 1990s. Gas Hills, Wyoming was composed of several mining companies' towns, the largest of which was owned by Lucky Mc Uranium. Shirley Basin, Wyoming was another uranium mining ...
Uranium mining in the United States produced 224,331 pounds (101.8 tonnes) of U 3 O 8 in 2023, 15% of the 2018 production of 1,447,945 pounds (656.8 tonnes) of U 3 O 8. The 2023 production represents 0.4% of the uranium fuel requirements of the US's nuclear power reactors for the year.
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.
Abandoned housing in Jeffrey City, Wyoming in 2011 Moab uranium mill tailings pile in 2010 Partially refined Yellowcake uranium oxide. A yellowcake boomtown also known as a uranium boomtown, is a town or community that rapidly increases in population and economics due to the discovery of uranium ore-bearing minerals, and the development of uranium mining, milling or enrichment activities.
Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation (8 P) Pages in category "Uranium mining in the United States" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Wyoming Minerals Corporation operated a pilot in-situ leaching plant from June 1977 to May 1978, successfully extracting uranium from a deposit in the Laramie Formation near the town of Grover. The aquifer was then remediated. [33] Power Resources Corporation began in-situ mining the uranium deposit in the Fox Hills Formation at Keota, Colorado ...
Pages in category "Uranium mines in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
United States (See Uranium mining in the United States) Mine Location Main owner Year discovered Year commenced Grade %U Annual production (tOre) Annual production (tU) Type of mine Crow Butte: Nebraska: Cameco: 1980: 1991 _ 363: ISL Daneros: near Fry Canyon, Utah: Energy Fuels: 1975: 2009: 0.26: 37,900: 97.4 (2012) UG, on standby 2012 Smith ...