Ambrosia Lake

Uranophane specimen from Ambrosia Lake
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image icon Ambrosia Lake mill and tailings pile after remediation.

Ambrosia Lake is a uranium mining district in McKinley and Cibola counties in New Mexico north of Grants that was heavily mined for uranium starting in the 1950s. It is in an anticlinal dome.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

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