Kanab North Uranium Mine, located next to Kanab Creek, a tributary to the Colorado River on the North Rim of Grand Canyon. Photo Robin Silver. Because uranium mining is not consistently profitable, ...

The Grand Canyon of Colorado state is famous for its natural and historical beauty worldwide. Nevertheless, what is hidden behind this beautiful view is the continued mining of uranium that negatively ...

Jacob Phipps with the Flagstaff branch of the Environmental Protection Agency said there are thousands of abandoned mines across the Colorado Plateau and over 500 abandoned uranium mines on the ...

Investigators found air in 50% of the uranium mines in Colorado and Arizona contaminated by four to five times the safe level of radiation. In one mine, they counted 47,000 micromicrocuries per li ...

Kanab North Uranium Mine, located next to Kanab Creek, a tributary to the Colorado River on the North Rim of Grand Canyon. Photo Robin Silver. Because uranium mining is not consistently profitable, ...