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Months after the Navajo Nation’s president said the trucking of uranium ore across the reservation showed “blatant disregard for our tribal sovereignty,” the tribe and a uranium mining ...
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.
Shipments of uranium ore from a revived mining operation just south of the Grand Canyon are expected to resume in February after the Navajo Nation reached a settlement with the mining company ...
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 ...
WHITE MESA, San Juan County — An accord between Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels officials over transport of uranium ore from Arizona through the reservation into Utah — focus of a flareup last ...
Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said Thursday he remains firmly opposed to the transportation of uranium ore through the Navajo Nation, and will join First Lady Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren in a ...
A driver transporting uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon to the White Mesa Mill near Blanding fell ill near Flagstaff. According to authorities, Coconino County Sheriff ...