Milling and Mining
Inside this geometric mound, with a skin of coarsely crushed rock, is a demolished uranium mill and its radioactive tailings. The mill was buried in 1992 by the Department of Energy, one of 24 uranium mill tailings sites in the US that are being remediated as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings...
The Durango Uranium Mill was one of two uranium recovery plants in Colorado set up secretly in 1943 to produce uranium for the Manhattan Project. Uranium from this site, and the other in Uravan, was shipped to the new secret refinery in Grand Junction, now the DOE's Grand Junction Lab. This uranium...
Radioactive tailings from a uranium mine (located between a dairy farm and a school), currently undergoing clean-up as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remediation Act Project. The site consists of two parcels: Parcel A covers 473 acres, and Parcel B, which is 0.9 miles east of Parcel A, covers...
Kennecott is developing this uranium mine in the Green Mountain area of south central Wyoming. The group of five uranium oxide deposits in the Green Mountain Mining Venture area (as the development consortium is called), including the Jackpot Mine, constitute one of the largest uranium oxide...
Tailings from a uranium mine, currently undergoing clean-up as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remediation Act Project. The site covers approximately 90 acres, on Navajo Nation land.
Uranium mill site, cleaned up by the DOE as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remediation Act Project. The operations left radioactive mill tailings which have been placed in mounds on site, and at a disposal site is one mile from Uravan, 15 miles northwest, where the DOE moved nearly a million...
This mill was at the center of one of the largest uranium mining areas in the country. It operated from 1958 to 1985, though it continued to mine uranium from the groundwater inside the flooded mines for several years after that. At its peak, it processed 7,000 tons of ore per day. The mine/mill...
Tailings from a Western Nuclear uranium mine, currently undergoing clean-up as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remediation Act Project. The site covers approximately 170 acres. The tailings and debris were relocated to a UMETCO Title II disposal site in the nearby Gas Hills area.
Radioactive tailings from a uranium mine and mill site, currently undergoing clean-up as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remediation Act Project. The site covers approximately 230 acres and is located on Navajo Nation land.
Two adjacent uranium mills operated here and have been mostly erased, as part of the federal government’s Uranium Mill Tailings Remediation Act (UMTRA). What is know today as Slick Rock East was the first mill here, built in 1931, and used to extract radium salts and vanadium. In 1945 the site was...
The Split Rock Mill was a uranium mill in Jefferson City, operated by Western Nuclear Inc. from 1957 to 1981. In 1988 the mill facilities were demolished and buried in a prepared area at the millsite. The town went from a population of 4,000 to 60 in ten years. The mill and mine site are undergoing...
Tailings from a Western Nuclear uranium mine, currently undergoing clean-up as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remediation Act Project. The site covers approximately 55 acres.
Tailings from a uranium mine and mill, currently undergoing clean-up as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remediation Act Project. The site covers approximately 105 acres, and is located on part of the Bennett-Freeze District land, bordering on the Navajo Nation and lands of the Hopi Tribe.The Tuba...