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  2. Navajo Mine and Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Navajo Mine is a surface coal mine owned and operated by Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) in New Mexico, United States, within the Navajo Nation. The mine is about 20.5 miles (33 km) southwest of Farmington, New Mexico. The Navajo Mine Railroad has 13.8 miles (22.2 km) of track between the Four Corners Generating Station and Navajo ...

  3. Oil drilling, mining blocked from southeast New Mexico cave ...

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    Two mining claims remain in the area, records show, and mining for metals like gold, silver and copper dates back to the 1900s. A uranium mining pit was established in 1954 but was closed the same ...

  4. Uranium mining and the Navajo people - Wikipedia

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    The subsequent mining boom led to the creation of thousands of mines; 92% of all western mines were located on the Colorado Plateau because of regional resources. [24] The Navajo Nation encompasses portions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, and their reservation was a key area for uranium mining

  5. Kayenta Mine - Wikipedia

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    The leased areas, mines, and facilities were collectively termed the Black Mesa Complex. In 1982, the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) issued permit AZ-0001 for surface mining and reclamation operations on the Black Mesa and Kayenta mines. The permit was most recently renewed in 2012 for the Kayenta Mine as permit ...

  6. Uranium mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mi Vida uranium mine near Moab, Utah. Mining of uranium-vanadium ore in southeast Utah goes back to the late 19th century. All of Utah's numerous uranium mines had closed by 1991 because of low prices. In late 2006, Denison Mines reopened the Pandora mine in the La Sal mining district, Utah's first producing uranium mine since 1991. [78]

  7. Mexico takes mining company to court seeking new remediation ...

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    Mexico is pursuing a criminal complaint against the country's biggest copper producer seeking to force a new remediation effort for a toxic mine spill in the northern state of Sonora nine years ...

  8. Uranium mining in New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Active uranium mining stopped in New Mexico in 1998, although Rio Algom continued to recover uranium dissolved in water from its flooded underground mine workings at Ambrosia Lake until 2002. [9] As of (April 7, 2014), there were twelve uranium mines that are either in the process of licensing or actively developing in New Mexico. [10]

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