Lukachukai Mountains
In 1948, a copper deposit in the Moenkopi Formation was discovered to have economic concentrations of uranium. The deposit was in the Lukachukai Mountains of Apache County. Uranium totaling 3.5 million pounds (1600 metric tons) of U3O8 was produced from 1950 until the mines closed in 1968.
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“In the mountains there are thousand-year-old trees, but in the towns there are hardly any hundred-year-old people.”
—Chinese proverb.