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Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, Sampling Building & Ore Recieving Platform, 3 miles Northwest of Naturita, between Highway 141, Naturita, Montrose County, CO
Locationbetween Highway 141,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CO-81-C
Building/structure dates:
1960 initial construction
Significance: The VCA Naturita Mill Office Building was constructed in 1960-61 as part of an effort to reconstruct the facility as an experimental uranium and vanadium ore concentrating facility. Between 1958 (when the milling operation had closed) and 1961, VCA had been paying miners to ship raw ore to the company's Durango mill. By first concentrating the ore at Naturita, VCA hoped to greatly reduce the volume of ore shipped to Durango, and correspondingly reduce the company's shipping costs...
Subjects
Uranium Processing PlantsOre Industry
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW TO SOUTH (RETAINING WALL OF ORE RECEIVING PLATFORM TO LEFT).
2. VIEW TO NORTHEAST (ORE RECEIVING PLATFORM OUT OF VIEW TO RIGHT).
3. DETAIL OF ORE RECEIVING PLATFORM AND GRIZZLY, VIEW TO WEST.
4. DETAIL OF ORE RECEIVING PLATFORM AND GRIZZLY, VIEW TO EAST.
5. INTERIOR OF NORTHEAST ROOM AND MEZZANINE, NORTHEAST VIEW OF (HOISTS IN CENTER).
6. INTERIOR OF NORTHEAST ROOM AND MEZZANINE, SOUTHWEST VIEW.
7. DETAIL OF ROOM BELOW GRIZZLY SHOWING BOTTOM OF COARSE ORE BIN AND CHUTE TO BEGINNING OF CONVEYOR BELT, SOUTH VIEW.
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