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Protest calls for closure of Pinyon Plain uranium mine near Grand Canyon

The Pinyon Plain Mine shaft is roughly 1,470 feet deep and used to extract uranium ore from below the surface.
Gabriel Pietrorazio/KJZZ
The Pinyon Plain Mine shaft is roughly 1,470 feet deep and used to extract uranium ore from below the surface.

More than a hundred people gathered Saturday at Red Butte south of the Grand Canyon to protest the mining and hauling of uranium ore. It’s the latest in a string of Indigenous-led protests calling for the closure of the Pinyon Plain mine.

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