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Mere months after the long-awaited and widely celebrated designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, a controversial uranium mine within the monument boundaries is starting operations, according to the mine's owner.

Although the monument bans new uranium mines, Canyon Mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine) was grandfathered in after years of attempts by the Havasupai Tribe, the Grand Canyon Trust, and many others to stop it in the courts.

The White House Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument fact sheet mentions two mining operations within the monument that would be able to operate. The second one is likely Arizona One uranium mine, on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, but that mine has been mined out since 2014.

read more: https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/uranium-mine-starts-new-grand-canyon-monument