but its important nuclear legacy will never be forgotten, having served as the hub of the most productive uranium mining district in the nation. The former company townsite has been erased from most maps following complete environmental remediation of the valley.
Wide panorama from the Star 13 mine portal showing the San Miguel River canyon where the former town and uranium mill was located. Recent remediation efforts resulted in the dismantling of buildings and excavation of radioactive waste and the debris is now sequestered in several containment cells south of the former town site.
The mill and town of Uravan, circa 1970. (Rimrocker Historical Society, donated by Wyatt family.)
Link to NRC closure document: Umetco Uravan.
One of several containment cells in Hieroglyphic Canyon. I measured only background levels of radiation while standing at the fence along the road and snapping this image.