Tag: Mining
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Soul of Sopris: Remembering a Colorado town now under water
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One day in 1970, Giuseppe Incitti took a pencil to paper and grieved the loss of his southern Colorado home. “Consider the town of Sopris finished,” he wrote, translated from his native Italian. “It will…
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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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Biden signs bill to relieve good Samaritans of liability for abandoned mine waste cleanup
People and organizations that want to clean up abandoned hard rock mines received good news when President Joe Biden signed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act of 2024 on Dec. 17. The law establishes a process and rules for “Good Samaritans” to apply for permits to clean up and remediate hard rock…
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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 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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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: 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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Protection vs. overreach: In western Colorado, national monument proposal ignites controversy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sean Pond was around a small town of his native western Colorado when he spotted a man in a blue ball cap. Above the bill were the words at the center of an ongoing controversy: “PROTECT THE DOLORES.” Pond approached the man. “He said someone…
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Colorado groups decry, cheer Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Chevron deference
In a ruling cheered and criticized in Colorado, the United States Supreme Court on Friday overturned a 40-year-old precedent that ordered federal judges to often defer to interpretations of laws made by federal agencies in their rulemaking, a move that effectively reasserted the authority of the judicial branch as the arbiter of “what the law…