Navajo Uranium Mining

This interactive activity explores three locations around Navajo Nation relevant to uranium mining activities and the resulting effects. This was created as a final project for an environmental justice class.

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Bibliography

“Conventional Uranium Mills.” NRC Web, https://www.nrc.gov/materials/uranium-recovery/extraction-methods/conventional-mills.html. Accessed 8 Dec. 2024.

Luokkala, Sonia. “Abandoned Uranium Mines Plague Navajo Nation.” Earth Island Journal, 5 May 2015, https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/abandoned_uranium_mines_plague_navajo_nation/.

“Mining of the Navajo Nation.” PWNA, https://nativepartnership.org/mining-of-the-navajo-nation/. Accessed 8 Dec. 2024.

“Shiprock (Navajo) Mill Site.” New Mexico Environmental Department, https://www.env.nm.gov/former-mines-mills/shiprock-navajo-mill-site/. Accessed 8 Dec. 2024.

Smith, Noel Lyn. Uranium Project given Green Light on Navajo Nation. Farmington Daily Times, 24 Dec. 2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20140726024547/http://www.daily-times.com/four_corners-news/ci_24790246/uranium-project-given-green-light-navajo-nation.

Image sources

Map | Monument Valley | Shiprock | Church Rock