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    Uravan (a contraction of uranium/vanadium) is a former uranium mining town in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States, which still appears on...
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    long (110 km) Uravan mineral belt is an arcuate zone of uranium-vanadium deposits in San Miguel, Montrose, and Mesa counties, Colorado, and Grand County...
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    Superfund site Uravan their names). Uranium price increases from 2001 to 2007 prompted several companies to revive uranium mining in Colorado. During the...
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    Piñon Uravan Government portal History portal Mountains portal United States portal Colorado portal Bibliography of Colorado Geography of Colorado History...
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    boomtowns are Grants, New Mexico; Moab, Utah; Jeffrey City, Wyoming; and Uravan, Colorado, although there are many others throughout the American West, and in...
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    Dryosaurus (category Paleontology in Colorado)
    and his family discovered a fossil locality around five miles from Uravan, Colorado in the spring of 1972. This site, unintentionally exposed by a bulldozer...
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    Naturita is a statutory town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States. The population was 485 at the 2020 census, down from 546 in 2010. The post office...
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    these, a former UCC uranium and vanadium processing facility near Uravan, Colorado, is listed as the sole responsibility of Dow. The rest are shared with...
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    mine at Central City, Colorado in 1871. Uranium mining in southwest Colorado goes back to 1898. The Uravan district of Colorado and Utah supplied about...
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    arranged for the purchase of US Vanadium Corporation's stockpile in Uravan, Colorado. The raw ore was dissolved in nitric acid to produce uranyl nitrate...
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    Hanging Flume (category Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado)
    (23 m) above the river. It began on a dam on the San Miguel River above Uravan, Colorado. The flume's opening (the headgate) no longer exists, and the connecting...
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    unincorporated community and U.S. post office in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States. The ZIP code of Bedrock is 81411. The town of Bedrock was...
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  • Transcontinental Railway and Strathcona (for Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona) Uravan, Colorado — "uranium" and "vanadium" Valsetz, Oregon — Valley and Siletz Railroad...
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    route of US 91 via its connection to US 191, runs through New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, as well as the tribal nations of the Navajo Nation and Ute Mountain...
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    the Colorado near the historic Dewey Bridge, about 30 miles (48 km) above Moab. The Hanging Flume is located on the canyon wall near Uravan, Colorado. Measured...
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    Trent Franks (category People from Montrose County, Colorado)
    situation on "the current cultural and media climate". Franks was born in Uravan, Colorado, a uranium mining company town which became a ghost town. Franks is...
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    earth mining (titanium, tellurium). The Uravan Mineral Belt (UMB) is on the west side of the state, and the Colorado Mineral Belt (COMB) is a large area of...
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    State of Colorado. A ghost town is a former community that now has no year-round residents or less than 1% of its peak population. Colorado has over 1...
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    inhabited places in the U.S. State of Colorado, including: 273 municipalities from the List of municipalities in Colorado 210 census-designated places from...
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    places in the U.S. State of Colorado sorted by county, including: 273 municipalities from the List of municipalities in Colorado 210 census-designated places...
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    Colorado. For post offices currently in operation: the first ZIP Code is the ZIP Code of the postmaster. See the List of populated places in Colorado...
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    (lived in Vail) – 38th President of the United States Trent Franks (born in Uravan) – U.S. Representative for Arizona's 2nd congressional district John Kerry...
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    while on assignment was in 2010, documenting the abandoned town of Uravan, Colorado, for The New Yorker. After shooting in Libya using iPhone, DSLR and...
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    (SH 90) is a 41.9 mi (67.4 km) long state highway at the western edge of Colorado. SH 90's western terminus is a continuation as Utah State Route 46 (SR-46)...
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    Uranium mining in Utah (category Colorado Plateau)
    the late 19th century, at the northern end of the Uravan mineral belt (see Uranium mining in Colorado), where it crosses into Grand County, Utah. Uranium...
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    United States Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved 2023-10-31. "Uravan Uranium Project". United States Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved...
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    undertaken from there to the confluence with the Dolores, near the site of Uravan. The San Miguel is considered a continuous class 2 run with several class...
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    State Highway 97 (SH 97) is a Colorado state highway connecting Nucla and Naturita. SH 97's southern terminus is at SH 141 in Naturita, and the northern...
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    portal Colorado portal Bibliography of Colorado Geography of Colorado History of Colorado Index of Colorado-related articles List of Colorado-related...
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    the U.S. State of Colorado. Archaeologists have agreed on three main periods of occupation by Pueblo peoples in southwestern Colorado: Pueblo I, Pueblo...
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