Jan 14, 2025 · The Grants Mining District was the primary focus of uranium extraction and production activities in New Mexico from the 1950s until the late 1990s. The belt extends along the southern margin of the San Juan Basin in Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, and Bernalillo Counties as well as on tribal lands.

Feb 6, 2025 · EPA works with its federal, state and tribal partners to address abandoned uranium mines and to identify parties responsible for cleanups. Efforts are in progress to address properties and structures contaminated by historic uranium mining for the Navajo Nation and the Grants Mining District in New Mexico.

uranium ore occurred on Navajo lands in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Today the mines are closed, but a legacy of uranium contamination remains from more than 500 abandoned uranium mines, homes built with contaminated mine waste

Ambrosia Lake - Rio Algom (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) The Ambrosia Lake-Rio Algom uranium mill site is located approximately 25 miles north of Grants, New Mexico, near to the Ambrosia Lake-Phillips mill site. The tailings impoundment contains 33 million tons of uranium ore and covers an area of approximately 370 acres.

Feb 4, 2025 · The Quivira Mines site is an inactive uranium mine operation located northeast of Gallup, New Mexico. Commercial exploration, development, and mining of uranium at Quivira Mines began in the late 1960s by the Kerr-McGee Corporation (Kerr-McGee) and then its subsidiary, Kerr-McGee Nuclear.

Nov 9, 2016 · The Grants Mining District was the primary focus of uranium extraction and production activities in New Mexico from the 1950s until the late 1990s. The belt extends along the southern margin of the San Juan Basin in Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, and Bernalillo Counties as well as on tribal lands.

The Grants Mineral Belt was the primary area for uranium extraction and production activities in New Mexico from the 1950's until the mid 1980s. Historical uranium mining impacts within the Shiprock Mining District and the tribal part of the Ambrosia Lake sub-district of the Grants Mineral Belt are under the jurisdiction of the Navajo Nation ...

Mar 14, 2025 · The Laguna sub-district is located within the Pueblo of Laguna and had one of the richest uranium ore deposits in the United States. The Jackpile-Paguate Mine operations started in 1953 and ceased in 1982, while being the largest open …

The Grants Mining District is an area of significant uranium-bearing rock approximately 100 miles long and 25 miles wide encompassing portions of McKinley, Cibola, Sandoval and Bernalillo counties and organized into three (3) sub-districts (Ambrosia Lake, Laguna, and

From October 2007 to June 2008, urine and water samples were collected as part of New Mexico state general fund-supported efforts to assess veterans' exposure to uranium, and more specifically, depleted uranium.