The Uravan Mill is a uranium mine located in Montrose county, Colorado at an elevation of 4,902 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,902 Feet (1,494 Meters)
Commodity: Uranium
Lat, Long: 38.37, -108.72390
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Uravan Mill MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Uravan Mill
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Colorado
County: Montrose
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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Holdings
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Workings
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Ownership
Owner Name: Union Carbide Corp., Mining And Metals Division
Company ID: 501785
Info Year: 1980
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Processing Plant
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Colorado Plateaus
Physiographic Section: Canyon Lands
Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Deposit): CERCLA (SUPERFUND) SITE. LISTED ON NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST (NPL). ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS INCLUDE: 1) RELEASE OF RADON FROM TAILINGS PILES, 2) SEEPAGE OF CONTAMINATED LIQUIDS INTO SOILS AND GROUND WATER, AND 3) CONCENTRATIONS OF LARGE QUANTITIES OF WASTES.
Comment (General): From http://www.uravan.com/ (accessed 9/20/10) "Originally the site of the Joe Jr. Mill, the company town of Uravan was established in 1936 when U. S. Vanadium Corporation moved its plant there. At one time, over 800 people lived along the tree-lined streets enjoying housing, schools, medical facilities, tennis courts, a recreation center and pool provided by the company. Trucks took ore from mines of the surrounding area, rich in uranium and vanadium deposits, to the processing plant at Uravan. Between 1936 and 1984 the plant milled 42 million pounds of vanadium . The mildly radioactive tailings (byproducts of the extraction) were deposited in huge piles above the canyon next to the plant Since 1983, Umetco Minerals corporation has been involved in a 15 year, $70 million reclamation project. Tailings above the mill have been stabilized and covered and process wastes from the evaporative ponds have been removed. A groundwater cleanup program is also underway. When the project is completed you will see the canyon almost as it was before milling operations began."
Comment (General): Copied from http://www.uravan.com/ (accessed 9/20/10): * Uravan, Colorado was in Montrose County, US Zip Code of 81436, location is 38?22'6"N 108?44'9"W; elevation is 4,992 feet * Standard Chemical Company (SCC) was the original owner of the Joe Jr. Mill, named for Joseph Flannery, Junior, the owner. SCC also had a radium refinery at Cannonsberg, Ohio. * U.S. Vanadium (USV) was acquired by Union Carbide and Carbon in 1926. * In 1929 USV acquired the SCC holdings at what was then known as the Joe Jr. Camp. * Uravan received its name in 1936 as a result of a company-sponsored contest. * "uravan" comes from the first three letters of uranium and vanadium. * The Joe Jr. Mill was torn down and USV built a mill on the hillside that was operational until 1957. * 1936 is the date that the mill began production on the hillside. * The USV mill was part of the Manhattan project that produced uranium for the first atomic bomb.
References
Reference (Deposit): COLO DIV OF MINES SUMMARY MIN ACTIV IN COLO 1978
Reference (Deposit): MSHA DATA, REVISED BY MILS 3-80
Reference (General): http://www.uravan.com/
URL: http://www.uravan.com/
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