The
Atkinson Mesa property, located on Atkinson
Mesa in the heart of the Uravan Belt near the
northeast end of the salt anticline region
of the Colorado Plateau,
consists of 111 mining claims for a total of 2,120 acres (848 hectares or 8.5
square kilometers).
Union Carbide held claims over the area
covered by the Atkinson Mesa property during
the 1950's through the 1970's. During this
period they
mined the highly
profitable King Solomon, Big Dick, and other large mines on the AEC (now
DOE) lease tracts to the southwest of the property. When the price of uranium
declined
in the early 1980's, Union Carbide dropped their claims and as a result,
much of the property has seen very limited exploration activity since that
time.
Homeland
is considering a work program for this property in 2010.
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