Although uranium mining in Utah and other western states has ceased, experts indicate that there is still substantial ore deep underground. Should demand for nuclear power revive and the market become viable, the Colorado Plateau may once again teem with the mines and mills of the atomic years.

See: Raye C. Ringholz, Uranium Frenzy, Boom and Bust on the Colorado Plateau (1989), and Raymond W. Taylor and Samuel W. Taylor, Uranium Fever, or No talk Under $1 Million (1970).

Raye C. Ringholz