The United Western Minerals Company was a company formed to exploit uranium deposits in
New Mexico
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, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
in 1955.
History
In the mid-1950s, the company was involved in uranium exploration in the
Ambrosia Lake
Ambrosia Lake is a uranium mining district in McKinley and Cibola counties in New Mexico north of Grants that was heavily mined for uranium starting in the 1950s. It is in an anticlinal dome.
History
Kerr-McGee first learned about ric ...
area of
McKinley County, New Mexico. A number of lawsuits were tried regarding ownership of the claims and the ore produced.
[OpenJurist.org] The company was cited in an undated draft document from the 21st century as being one of several that interfered with the ''Hozho'' (a way of life) for the
Navajo people
The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; nv, Diné or ') are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United ...
.
[Hozho]
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Non-renewable resource companies established in 1955
Defunct companies based in New Mexico
1955 establishments in New Mexico
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