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The new mining at Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon's South Rim entrance is happening within the boundaries of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukv National Monument that was designated in August ...
Piñon was a town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States. The town was 58 miles (93 km) south of Grand Junction, Colorado, along the San Miguel River and was created as a colony for the Colorado Cooperative Company. [1] During the height of mining from 1902 to 1904, Piñon was the second largest town in Montrose County. [2]
The designation permanently prevents new mining claims within the monument, though there are over 3,000 pre-existing leases that could still be developed. [5] [19] The Pinyon Plain Mine near Tusayan, which started development before the 2012 moratorium, began operations in December 2023. [21]
The Havasupai people and the Grand Canyon Trust sought to block the reopening of the Pinyon Plain Mine (formerly Canyon Uranium Mine). Activity at the mine had ceased in 1992, ten years prior to the moratorium on new development in 2012. Appellants challenged the U.S. Forest Service's consultation process for approving reopening of the mine.
A rescue operation in Colorado on Thursday to bring trapped mining tour visitors out of an underground mine was successful, seven hours after one person died and four others were injured.. Gov ...
A storage unit near Denver whose contents were purchased at auction turned out to contain a land mine, Colorado sheriff’s officials said. Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order around the ...
The uranium-mining boom town of Jeffrey City lost 95% of its population in three years. By 2020, the only active uranium mine in Wyoming was the Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ leaching operation in the Powder River Basin, owned by Cameco. [107] The mine has produced 23 million pounds of uranium since it opened in 1975.
The mine was owned by the General Atomics subsidiary Cotter Corporation, which estimated that there are an additional 16 million pounds (7300 metric tons) of uranium oxide resource remaining in the mine. In 2024, the Colorado Department of Natural Resources Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS) took the mine over from Colorado ...