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If you would like to contribute materials to the Atlas, please reach out to the editors: Sarah Kanouse (s.kanouse at northeastern.edu) and Shiloh Krupar (srk34 at georgetown.edu).
Cover Image by Shanna Merola, "An Invisible Yet Highly Energetic Form of Light," from Nuclear Winter.
Atlas design by Byse.
Funded by grants from Georgetown University and Northeastern University. Initial release September 2021.
Susan Hall, Uranium minerals from the Burro Mine, Colorado, 9 September 2012, U.S. Geological Survey
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Burro Mines
The Burro Mine is an abandoned uranium and vanadium mine located on the bank of the Dolores River in the red rock canyons of southwestern Colorado near Slick Rock. It is still littered with piles of waste rock which are stained with uranium minerals. Some of the waste rock piles have been arranged to slow contaminated surface runoff water before it reaches the Dolores.
Uranium minerals were first discovered in the Slick Rock-area in the early 1900s. The Atomic Energy Commission reported two million pounds of uranium produced at the Burro Mine from 1957 and 1971.
Frosch, Dan. "A Fight in Colorado Over Uranium Mines." New York Times, April 16, 2013. Accessed July 30, 2020.
Uranium minerals were first discovered in the Slick Rock-area in the early 1900s. The Atomic Energy Commission reported two million pounds of uranium produced at the Burro Mine from 1957 and 1971.
Sources
Hudson Institute of Mineralogy. "Burro Mine (C-SR-13 Mesa)." Minedat.org. Accessed July 30, 2020.Frosch, Dan. "A Fight in Colorado Over Uranium Mines." New York Times, April 16, 2013. Accessed July 30, 2020.
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