Tag: Mining
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Can Colorado reinvent its uranium legacy?
Uranium mining in Colorado has a bright future. George Glasier believes that. From his cattle ranch near Nucla, Colo., where sagebrush valleys give way to rugged canyons, Glasier leads a company working to restart old uranium mines and build a new ore processing plant. This push comes at a pivotal time for an industry that’s…
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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
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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
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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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U.S. ban on Russian uranium threatens nuclear power renaissance, Colorado company poised to help
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The U.S. bans Russian uranium imports, investing $2.7 billion to expand domestic processing capacity
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Colorado company plays key role in developing massive, rare earth element find in Wyoming
The mine is expected to produce significant quantities of neodymium, terbium, dysprosium, and other REEs.
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Navajo Nation grapples with challenges in educating the dangers of radon gas
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The tragedy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation
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How uranium mining affected the Navajo Nation, its people, and its land
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The tragedy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation