Energy company expects daily uranium shipments to White Mesa Mill from mine near Grand Canyon

The mining company Energy Fuels transported its first shipment of uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon to the White Mesa Mill in Blanding, Utah, on Tuesday. The company plans to transport six or more truckloads of ore to the White Mesa Mill daily for the next two years. The shipping route cuts through the Navajo Nation, which banned the transportation of uranium on the reservation in 2012, and on Tuesday, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said that Energy Fuels is operating illegally on tribal land. Tribal laws don't apply to federal and state highways, which the company uses to transport, but President Nygren threatened to take Energy Fuels to court over the issue.