Uranium Miner - Grants, New Mexico, USA.
N 35° 09.194 W 107° 51.297
13S E 239931 N 3893768
All mining starts with a hole. The life size Silhouette Sculpture of a miner is shown holding a Jack drill, drilling a hole, and represents the typical Miner. Located in Grants, the Uranium mining belt in the USA.
Waymark Code: WMM5HF
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 07/25/2014
Views: 6
The Grants Mineral Belt was the primary focus of uranium extraction and production activities in New Mexico from the 1950s until the late 1990s. Now all the mines are closed.
"In the mining industry, it's a fact of life and a philosophy: everything starts with a hole in the ground.
Uranium, coal, gold, silver, diamonds, copper and a myriad of other exotic metals, minerals and gems from the original hole in the ground are released to flow up and out in the world to become the wealth of nations.
Very few places in the world recreate the raw and often dangerous conditions of the hole in the ground re-created in Grants, New Mexico, in "one of the few Uranium Mining Museums in the World." Text Source: (
visit link)