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Title: Cleanup company walks away from Jeffco uranium mine, state takes $7.3 million bo
Post by: Marlin on Dec 18, 2023, 01:12

Cleanup company walks away from Jeffco uranium mine, state takes $7.3 million bond

https://coloradosun.com/2023/12/18/colorado-jefferson-county-uranium-mine-cleanup-failure/

Title: Re: Cleanup company walks away from Jeffco uranium mine, state takes $7.3 million bo
Post by: Mounder on Dec 18, 2023, 03:30

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0172265,-105.3658132,3a,66.4y,178.79h,100.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sY76X-QnJWU__QzgqxobEiQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Uranium in water from a reservoir.  Bigger things to worry about, but they don't.

Title: Re: Cleanup company walks away from Jeffco uranium mine, state takes $7.3 million bo
Post by: GLW on Dec 19, 2023, 09:22

Quote from: Mounder on Dec 18, 2023, 03:30

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0172265,-105.3658132,3a,66.4y,178.79h,100.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sY76X-QnJWU__QzgqxobEiQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Uranium in water from a reservoir.  Bigger things to worry about, but they don't.

aka millionaire gulch,....

(https://www.memesmonkey.com/images/memesmonkey/74/7415d4d143475f9d312c4c688b2e806e.jpeg)

Title: Re: Cleanup company walks away from Jeffco uranium mine, state takes $7.3 million bo
Post by: Mounder on Dec 19, 2023, 09:38

It appears, per the multiple years of Google Images, that someone has torn down the previously visible mine processing buildings.  There are no public clean-up records.

Title: Re: Cleanup company walks away from Jeffco uranium mine, state takes $7.3 million bo
Post by: Mounder on Feb 05, 2024, 09:27

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.017121,-105.3654901,3a,15.3y,189.84h,91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBWrMyJFUnNAXJDS_T1vpsA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu