Uranium Mine Moratorium Extended at Grand Canyon
A six-month extension to prevent new claims in a million-acre buffer zone around the Grand Canyon was announced as the government awaits ...
June 20, 2011 - - Science / Environment - Article - Print Headline: "Uranium Mine Moratorium Extended at Grand Canyon"
U.S. to Ban New Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon
The Department of Interior plans to announce a 20-year moratorium on new mining claims in a million-acre buffer zone around the Grand ...
January 06, 2012 - - Science - Green Blog
Uranium Mines Dot Navajo Land, Neglected and Still Perilous ...
Scientists and Indian advocates are questioning why the government is not acting more quickly on a cleanup.
March 31, 2012 - - U.S. - Article - Print Headline: "Uranium Mines Dot Navajo Land, Neglected and Still Perilous
New Step in Debate Over Uranium Mining in Virginia
The National Academy of Sciences, in a long-awaited report, warned the Virginia legislature that it faced “steep hurdles” for safely mining and ...
December 19, 2011 - - U.S. - Article - Print Headline: "Uranium Mining Study Sees Hurdles for Virginia"
Uranium Contamination Haunts Navajo Country
The legacy wrought from decades of uranium mining is long and painful here on the expansive reservation. Over the years, Navajo miners ...
July 27, 2009 - - US - Article - Print Headline: "Uranium Contamination From Mining Haunts Navajo Country"
Global Growth Prospects For Uranium Stir Concerns
South Texas is striving to become a mining hub for uranium but environmentalists have concerns about contamination.
April 14, 2012 - - U.S. - Article - Print Headline: "Growth Prospects For Uranium Stir Concerns"
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Uranium Miners Inherit Dispute's Sad Legacy
Uranium Miners Inherit Dispute's Sad Legacy January 9, 1990, Tuesday By KEITH SCHNEIDER, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES NYT National Desk ...
Uranium, Grazing Cattle and Risks Unknown
A cattle ranch near an abandoned uranium mine in Cameron, Ariz. Joshua Lott for The New York TimesA cattle ranch near an abandoned ...
April 04, 2012 - - Science - Green Blog
Fear Darkens Czech Uranium Mining Town
STRAZ POD RALSKEM, CZECH REPUBLIC — The national uranium company in the Czech Republic, Diamo, has been working for years to ...
November 4, 2010 - - Business Day / Global Business - Article - Print Headline: "Fear Darkens Czech Uranium Mining Town"
Uranium; Mine Operations Meeting Grass-Roots Opposition
EARLIER this month, the West Milford Township Council adopted an ordinance that bans uranium exploration, mining and milling, as well as the transportation ...
October 12, 1980 - - New Jersey Weekly - Article - Print Headline: "Uranium; Mine Operations Meeting Grass-Roots Opposition"
Passage of Ban Is Blocking Projects For Mining of Uranium in Vermont
Uranium mining companies are backing down on plans to prospect in Vermont following the passage of a bill that would prohibit digging for the radioactive ...
April 15, 1980 - - undefined - Article - Print Headline: "Passage of Ban Is Blocking Projects For Mining of Uranium in Vermont; Makes Vermont the First Terms Bill Propaganda"
Officials Are Heeding Opposition to Mining Uranium in Vermont ...
Confronted with mounting public opposition to proposed mining of uranium, Gov. Richard A. Snelling has recommended that Urangesellschaft U.S.A. Inc. be ...
March 18, 1979 - - undefined - Article - Print Headline: "Officials Are Heeding Opposition to Mining Uranium in Vermont; Study Is Planned"
Canadians Cut Wilderness Road To Supply Uranium Mining Area ...
They are cutting a truck route through the trackless wastes to the uranium mines around Uranium City in northwestern Saskatchewan. When the road is finished, ...
August 14, 1956 - - Business & Finance - Article - Print Headline: "Canadians Cut Wilderness Road To Supply Uranium Mining Area; Saskatchewan Truck Route Slated for Completion by First of Year CANADIANS BUILD WILDERNESS ROAD Franchise Granted Investment $150,000"
Vermonters Vote for a Ban On Mining of Uranium Ore; Protection ...
The hill towns of central Vermont, in turmoil for more than a year because of the possibility that deposits of uranium ore discovered there would be exploited, ...
March 6, 1980 - - undefined - Article - Print Headline: "Vermonters Vote for a Ban On Mining of Uranium Ore; Protection Called Sufficient Discussion in Jamaica Meeting A Lack of Information"
VIRGINIA DELAYS PERMITS FOR URANIUM MINING - Free ...
Charles S. Robb has signed legislation declaring a moratorium until July 1, 1983, on the issuing of uranium mining permits in Virginia. The moratorium was ...
A Valley of Death for the Navajo Uranium Miners
On the way up to the summit of the red rock mesas where uranium was mined for atomic bombs for a quarter-century, Jim John pointed to the ...
May 03, 1993 - Front Page - Article
A Legacy of Ashes: The Uranium Mines Of Eastern Germany - New ...
BARREN and black, the ashen hills of nuclear waste stand like treeless offspring of the wooded mountains that cradle the towns and villages of ...
March 19, 1991 - undefined - Article
URANIUM MINING BLOCKED; State Refuses Permission to Take ...
19- Promoters of the uranium explorations at Camp Smith here laid today they were "deeply shocked" to hear that commissioners of the State Land Office in ...
March 1, 1956 - - Business & Finance - Article - Print Headline: "URANIUM MINING BLOCKED; State Refuses Permission to Take Camp Smith Ore"
High Death Toll Feared in Uranium Mining
NASHVILLE, Nov. 25 (UPI) Hundreds of millions of people could die as the result of the mining and milling of uranium to fuel nuclear-powered generators of ...
November 26, 1977 - undefined - Article - Print Headline: "High Death Toll Feared in Uranium Mining"
Foes Highlight Companies' Foreign Ownership in Bids to Halt ...
A key issue: Companies that mine uranium and other hardrock minerals do not pay royalties to the U.S. government. Several companies that ...
May 4, 2011 - - Business Day / Energy & Environment - Article - Print Headline: "Foes Highlight Companies' Foreign Ownership in Bids to Halt Uranium Mining"
A DOCTOR'S JOURNAL; Navajo Miners Battle a Deadly Legacy of ...
The Navajo, whose lands extend over western New Mexico, eastern Arizona and southern Utah, were at the epicenter of the uranium-mining boom, and ...
Uranium Swindle Put at $20500000
Also : the `Chexokee Uranium Mining Corporation; Blackstone Uranium Mines, Inc., both in Denver, and Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc., a Utah concen that ...
August 4, 1956 - - undefined - Article - Print Headline: "Uranium Swindle Put at $20,500,000; URANIUM SWINDLE PUT AT $20,500,000"
NEW JERSEY JOURNAL
Although the safeguards might exist on the books, he asserted, the health records of the uranium miners out West showed that the safeguards either were not ...
August 24, 1980 - - New Jersey Pages - Article - Print Headline: "NEW JERSEY JOURNAL"
VIRGINIA TO CONSIDER LIFTING A MORATORIUM ON URANIUM ...
[ DISPLAYING ABSTRACT ]Virginia officials are considering lifting a moratorium that has prohibited uranium mining among the rolling tobacco ...
Uranium Miners Tell Panel Radiation Caused Ailments - New York ...
Hundreds of former uranium miners and their family members, some speaking in their native Navajo, told a United States Senate committee ...
March 14, 1990 - U.S. - Article
