or a radioactive threat?
High uranium prices and new rare earth production capabilities at the White Mesa Mill could revive the aging facility in San Juan County.
White Mesa • In a white tent set up in a parking lot beside the rust-streaked metal towers of the last conventional uranium mill in the United States, investors, miners, engineers and executives were giddy for the future.
For years, the White Mesa Mill, just south of Blanding, had been “hanging on by a thread, literally,” said Mark Chalmers, CEO of Energy Fuels, the company which has owned and operated the mill for a decade. But that is beginning to turn around this year.
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