Uravan
Pueblo fantasma · Estados Unidos
- Abandonado
- desconocido
- Fundado
- —
- Población
- —
- Coordenadas
- 38.368, -108.736
Por qué se abandonó
⚒️ Minas y canteras
Detectado automáticamente a partir del texto: Uravan is a former uranium mining town in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States.
Historia
Uravan is a former uranium mining town in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States. The town was a company town established by U. S. Vanadium Corporation in 1936 to extract the rich vanadium ore in the region. As a byproduct of vanadium extraction, small amounts of uranium were also produced, at the time mostly used as a yellow pigment for ceramics.
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