Uranium

Conceptual ore-pad and covered haul truck leaving a fenced mine toward a distant mill sign, HOST explaining the pause

Pinyon Plain Mine haul, 2024–2026

Ore on the pad, the July 2024 haul pause, February 2025 restart, and the 300-mile truck path to White Mesa — distinct from the regional uranium overview.

Illustrated map-style cutaway of the Grand Canyon showing scattered small icons for mine adits, shafts, and tailings piles across the rim and inner canyon

Grand Canyon's mine inventory: 38 sites, 75 features, by the numbers

NPS has counted 75 abandoned mine features across 38 sites in the park, part of a 37,050-feature nationwide problem. Here’s the public accounting.

Split comic panel of the Orphan Mine: an active 1960 uranium headframe beside tourists, and today a locked fence with an Area Closed sign.

The Orphan Mine: Copper Bust, Uranium Boom, Radioactive Fence

An 1893 copper claim on the South Rim became one of the richest uranium mines in the country, then a cleanup the Park Service is still fencing, monitoring, and gluing down today.