ST. GEORGE — Over 500 abandoned uranium mines sit on Navajo land, many with radiation levels above the federal safety limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the agency.

A small but meaningful victory has halted a plan to massively expand Daneros uranium mine, near National Monument.

The dark gray rock is uranium ore headed to the White Mesa Mill in Utah’s rural San Juan County — the last remaining “conventional” uranium mill in the United States. The country’s other ...

The Trump administration directed the Bureau of Land Management to complete an environmental assessment for the reopening of ...

President Buu Nygren said he will continue to oppose shipments of uranium ore from a mine near the Grand Canyon across the reservation. advertisement Story by Arlyssa D. Becenti, Arizona Republic ...

But now, uranium waste rock that has sat for decades at a Superfund ... Companies extracted an estimated 30 million tons of uranium ore on or near the Navajo Nation from 1944 to 1986, largely ...

Serious concerns have been raised as a report revealed that three tons of uranium were legally dumped in a protected English ...

to buy cigarettes, he saw two men examining a fist-sized, yellow-streaked piece of rock. He heard them say, in Spanish, that it was a sample of uranium ore, and that the Government was offering a ...

Another user suggested the rock was probably uranium ore and urged him to be cautious. "If it is Uranium ore, then it emits mainly alpha particles, which can cause damage only to a very limited ...

A uranium mine in southern Utah is the first project to be approved under President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration ...

Even after receiving photos of trucks transporting uranium ore through the Navajo Nation ... Utah, at Church Rock, New Mexico, and near Kayenta in northern Arizona. The EPA has identified 523 ...