Uravan
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.368, -108.736
Why it was abandoned
⚒️ Mines & quarries
Detected automatically from the text: Uravan is a former uranium mining town in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States.
History
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.