Another mining company is staking claim to thousands of acres of mineral lease rights in northeastern Weld County in preparation for possible uranium extraction around the ghost town of Keota. Geovic Mining Corp., a Grand Junction-based company, has leased mineral rights on more than 15,000 acres in the Keota area through about 100 lease agreements signed through 2007, according to documents filed with the Weld County recorder.

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During the 2008 spring semester, students in Colorado State's Journalism and Technical Communication course, Communication and Evaluation Research Methods, undertook a class project to examine citizen concerns about the uranium mine proposed for the area between Nunn and Wellington, Colo. When asked if individuals had made their minds up on the issue one way or another, very few respondents were in favor of the mining operation, at 5 percent; about 20 percent reported they were undecided, while a majority, or 74 percent, said they were against it.

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A company seeking to operate three uranium mines in northern Arizona has been denied a key state permit for two mines, near Tusayan and north of the Grand Canyon. Amid field hearings and congressional legislation proposing to put the area around the Grand Canyon off-limits to uranium mining, this is the first real roadblock to the first proposed uranium mining in Arizona in this decade.

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