This map shows the risk of fatal accidents along the transportation route from Canyon uranium mine near the Grand Canyon to the White Mesa uranium mill.
Resource Issue: Uranium
This map shows active mining claims, including various uranium mines, inside the boundaries of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument
Radioactive waste is shipped from toxic sites across the country to the White Mesa Mill.
This interactive map shows the Canyon Mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine) haul route, from the south rim of the Grand Canyon to the White Mesa uranium mill in southern Utah.
This map shows the route uranium haul trucks will take to deliver uranium ore mined at Canyon Mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine) to the White Mesa Mill for processing.
In 2008, there were over 8,000 mining claims on public lands surrounding Grand Canyon National Park.
The history of low-level radioactive wastes considered for processing and disposal at the White Mesa Mill near Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.
The Grand Canyon Trust’s comments objecting to the Department of Interior’s expedited review of a mine plan modification for the Velvet-Wood uranium mine.
This interactive timeline offers a brief history of Canyon Mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine), a controversial uranium mine near the Grand Canyon.
The Havasupai Tribe opposes the hauling of uranium across its ancestral lands near the Grand Canyon.
Scientists developed this dashboard to help explain mine shaft flooding at Canyon uranium mine and heavy metal levels in water pumped out of the mine shaft.
Heavy metals, including uranium, arsenic, and lead in floodwater at Canyon uranium mine, renamed Pinyon Plain Mine.
How much water has been pumped out of Pinyon Plain uranium mine near Grand Canyon National Park?
Canyon Mine, also known as Pinyon Plain Mine, a uranium mine located near Grand Canyon, continues to flood with water.
More than 275,000 pounds of unwanted radioactive materials from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have arrived at the uranium mill in White Mesa, Utah.
On May 20, 2024, the Grand Canyon Trust submitted comments on the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality’s proposed rulemaking to update aquifer water-quality standards that are out of compliance with Arizona law.
Uranium spot prices have flutuated between 1989 and 2024, with notable spikes in 2007 and 2024.
The annual global price of uranium has fluctuated from 1980-2023.
Conservation groups are defending the new Grand Canyon national monument against lawsuits that aim to both undo it and dismantle the Antiquities Act.
Learn about the history of uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and the extra protections that Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument brings to the region. Download the lesson plan.
Read the Havasupai Tribe’s statement opposing uranium extraction at Canyon Mine.
Energy Fuels plans to start ventilation at Pinyon Plain Mine (formerly Canyon Mine). Read the notice.
Arizona voters strongly support a national monument to protect lands and waters around the Grand Canyon. See the poll findings.
This report details the radioactive wastes that have been approved for shipment to southeastern Utah’s White Mesa uranium mill for disposal.
Arizona voters strongly support a national monument to protect lands around the Grand Canyon.
Get the facts about uranium mining around the Grand Canyon.
How much uranium is in the Grand Canyon region? Your questions, answered.
Canyon Mine is a poster child of what can go wrong at a uranium mine in the Grand Canyon region.
Read the case against mining uranium on public lands around the Grand Canyon.
The Senate has only a few weeks left to pass the Grand Canyon Protection Act, which would permanently ban new uranium mines around the canyon.