Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, Brick Skimmer Salt Roaster, 3 miles Northwest of Naturita, between Highway 141 & San Miguel River, Naturita, Montrose County, CO

Significance: Built by the Rare Metals Corporation in 1927, this Skinner Roaster is the Naturita Mill's oldest remaining structure, and is the only extant structure that predates VCA's acquisition of the facility in the mid-1930s. Moreover, it and the other remaining roaster (Structure G) are among only four extant structures that remain from the uranium and vanadium milling process that operated 1947-1958. Earlier, between ca. 1939 and 1947 this roaster was used in a vanadium only milling process...
Survey number: HAER CO-81-F
Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Construction