Resisting the Nuclear Boom: A new wave of uranium mining threatens Indigenous communities in Southwest http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/04/resisting-nuclear-boom-new-wave-of.html

Resisting the Nuclear Boom: A new wave of uranium mining threatens Indigenous communities in the Southwest Since December, miners have resumed crawling deep into the earth on the edge of the Grand Canyon to mine high-grade uranium ore at the Arizona 1 Mine, which had been closed since the late 1980s. Owned by the Canadian Denison Mines Corp., it is the first uranium mine to open in northern Arizona since nuclear power again became a popular idea in Washington within the last decade. The greater Grand Canyon area faces a possible explosion in the number of new uranium mines