Climax Uranium Mill, Grand Junction, Colorado [1951] 1101 Kimball Avenue Grand Junction Mesa Colorado 81501 USA place:1545 Colorado Sugar Manufacturing Company factory, Grand Junction, Colorado A mill that, beginning in 1951, processed uranium from local mines for use in the nuclear industry and cold war weaponry. Prior to its use as a uranium processing facility, the building was a sugar manufacturing plant. According to John Fulton Emerson, a local mining engineer who was involved with the uranium industry in the 1940’s and beyond, the mill was first managed by Tony Mastrovich, an employee of the Union Mines Development Corporation. According to Harold Godby, who worked at the uranium plant as a heavy equipment operator, the facility operated 24 hours a day. He worked there for two years, loading dump trucks full of uranium mill tailings, which were driven to the nearby Colorado River and dumped along the banks. Beginning in the 1980's, the Federal Government spent millions of dollars under the Superfund program removing mill tailings from the Colorado River's banks and from buildings, sidewalks and parks where it had been used as an additive in concrete, and as fill dirt. The building is now owned by the Museums of Western Colorado and houses their archives. yes yes