United Nuclear-Homestake Mill

Producer in Cibola county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10126236
MAS/MILS ID 0350060158
Record type Site
Current site name United Nuclear-Homestake Mill

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -107.85562, 35.24066 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cibola(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grants(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio San Jose(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Cibola

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -107.85562, 35.24066

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MESA MET NONMET MINE FILE RECORDS OWN/OP: UNITED NUCLEAR -

  • Deposit

    HOMESTAKE PARTNERS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CERCLA (SUPERFUND) SITE. PLACED ON NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST (NPL) IN SEPTEMBER 1983 AS "HOMESTAKE MILL." ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS INCLUDE MILL TAILINGS CONTAINING SELENIUM AND RADIONUCLIDES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references