Re: AW: [Fwd: [Know_Nukes] (NYT) Navajo Miners Battle a Deadly Legacy of Yell...

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 5/19/03 4:15:20 PM Mountain Daylight Time, franz.schoenhofer@chello.at writes:


> Even more I think that uranium mining has been finished since long in this area and in the meantime rain should have removed the "yellow cake". The uranium mine which I visited in 1988 mined pitchblende containing ore and this ore was shipped far away for the production of yellow cake. To my knowledge there cannot have been many factories producing yellow cake in this area and Moab is not in the Navajo reservation.....



Several points:


Solution mining is now done instead of "hard rock" mining, but mining is still done.


You are quite right about yellowcake.  It is produced from uranium ore at Portsmouth, OH (and maybe at Oak ridge) but not anywhere near the Navajo reservation.


Moab actually sits very near Indian lands.  It is sort of in the middle of Canyonlands Nationalo Park.


Ruth

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