Tag: Uranium
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Can Colorado better source, produce rare earth minerals? Mining experts weigh in on how
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump’s recent policy directives to cut the cord between China and the U.S. for rare earth minerals triggered by China’s retaliatory cut-off of certain critical minerals put a spotlight on the United State’s near-total dependence on China for minerals, products and materials essential…
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Navajo Nation and Colorado uranium mining company agree on ore transport plan
The Navajo Nation has come to terms with the prospect of renewed shipments of uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain mine in northern Arizona through its lands on the way to the last uranium mill in the United States near Blanding, Utah. Two shipments of ore by Lakewood-based Energy Fuels Inc. from the mine on June…
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Legacy of uranium one of sadness and promise
The legacy of uranium begins with the terrible power that ended World War II and poisoned the Navajo Nation. Its future promises pollution-free, endless energy. The development of the nuclear bombs that destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and compelled Japan to surrender on Sept. 2, 1945, began in 1939 when physicists Albert…
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Uranium mining: A Colorado company pumps out ore, with implications for economy and national security
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Travis Chiotti puts a brass tag bearing his name on a hook on the “in” board before heading 1,400 feet down-shaft. It’s a pair — the other tag goes in his pocket. Just in case. Helmet, headlamp, heavy steel-toed rubber boots, emergency respirator. Check. Mining…
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Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon: A dispute over water and geology
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save To critics, the mine poses too much of a risk. To the company, that claim is unsubstantiated. Amber Reimondo, energy director for the Grand Canyon Trust, said the risk of uranium and other minerals migrating out of the mine after mining is completed is too great…
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Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon: 1,470 feet below surface
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Unlike strip mines, the Pinyon Plain mine’s surface impact is only 14 acres. The geological formation containing the uranium ore body, called a “breccia pipe,” is about 250 feet in diameter and extends vertically down some 3,000 feet. To mine the ore, a vertical shaft…
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Biden’s new national monument restricts domestic uranium supply
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Joe Biden’s designation of a new national monument near the Grand Canyon prohibits mining of most uranium deposits within the monument, a decision made amid renewed interest in accelerating the building of carbon-free nuclear powerplants in the U.S., which need uranium to fuel reactors. …
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Rare earth minerals essential to renewable energy not as rare as advertised
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The confluence of the need for renewable energy with China’s dominance in the “rare earth minerals market” puts America’s supply chains for these essential components in a precarious position, say extraction and refining executives in Denver. China controlled more than 80% of the supply for…