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Colorado residents face exploratory uranium drilling “right in the front yard of the community”

Property owners near Cañon City worry about prospecting as soaring prices motivate mining companies

Tamra Blades listens to her husband Skip Blades give a presentation to the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety Board in Denver on Jan. 17, 2024. The two live in the South T Bar Ranch community where a company is looking to do exploratory drilling for uranium outside of Canon City, Colorado. The couple worries that ground water could be contaminated during miming and they are scared miming operations will effect wildlife near their home. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Tamra Blades listens to her husband Skip Blades give a presentation to the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety Board in Denver on Jan. 17, 2024. The two live in the South T Bar Ranch community where a company is looking to do exploratory drilling for uranium outside of Canon City, Colorado. The couple worries that ground water could be contaminated during miming and they are scared miming operations will effect wildlife near their home. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
DENVER, CO - NOVEMBER 8: Elise Schmelzer - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
By | eschmelzer@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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Many residents of a community 45 minutes from Cañon City are alarmed by an Australian company's plans to drill in the subdivision as it explores the uranium deposits beneath it. An appeal by a homeowner to stop the prospecting failed last week.
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