In 2009 we won a grand victory for the Grand Canyon when Interior Secretary Salazar announced a two - year halt on new uranium - mining claims and exploration on 1 million acres of land near Grand Canyon National Park, with potential for a 20 - year withdrawal of those lands from
most uranium mining.
Not exact matches
The respondents are
most adamant that militarily significant sectors of the economy be protected from foreign ownership, including
uranium mining.
For ores that contain even less concentrated
uranium — McArthur River is the
most concentrated active
mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's
uranium is much less concentrated than the
mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
In fact,
most of the
mining is done via remote control, because the McArthur River deposit is so rich: more than 20 percent triuranium octaoxide (U3O8), the
most common form of
uranium found in nature, according to Cameco.
The severity of health risks at Baley is comparable with the significant radon contamination in homes and communities observed at other major
uranium mining districts around the world,
most notably the USA, eastern Germany and South Africa.
These immense facilities sprawling across the steppe are the
most extensive
uranium operations in Asia and among the handful of the largest
uranium mining and milling sites in the world.
From the historical perspective, the lingering impacts of underground
uranium mining on the health and lands of the Navajo people are
most often cited by community leaders as one of the principal reasons why so many Diné disfavor new
uranium development by any method, including the in situ leach (ISL) technique.
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