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 HB235323 Detail Below Roaster, Southeast View (shaft, Turning Gear Mechanism And Furnace).
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Locationbetween Highway 141,
Naturita vicinity, CO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CO-81-G
Building/structure dates:
1941 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1947 subsequent work
Significance: Moved from Dry Valley, Utah and reconstructed at the Naturita Mill in 1947, this structure and the other remaining roaster (Structure F) are among only for extant structures that remain from the uranium and vanadium milling that operated 1947-1958. During the 1950s, the uranium and vanadium milling was at tis peak, this was one of four roasters in operation at the Naturita site. Processing the ore for its uranium and vanadium values during these years involved a series of steps that included, weighing, crushing, stockpiling, grinding, roasting, quenching, and precipitating the final uranium and vanadium products...
Subjects
Accessory Industrial Buildings
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. DETAIL BELOW ROASTER, SOUTHEAST VIEW (SHAFT, TURNING GEAR MECHANISM AND FURNACE).
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