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Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, Office Building, 3 miles Northwest of Naturita, between Highway 141 & San Miguel River, Naturita, Montrose County, CO
Summary
Significance: The VCA Naturita Mill Office Building was constructed in 1960-61 as part of an effort to reconstruct the facility as an experimental uranium and vanadium ore concentrating facility. Between 1958 (when the milling operation had closed) and 1961, VCA had been paying miners to ship raw ore to the company's Durango mill. By first concentrating the ore at Naturita, VCA hoped to greatly reduce the volume of ore shipped to Durango, and correspondingly reduce the company's shipping costs...
Survey number: HAER CO-81-A
Building/structure dates: 1960-1961 Initial Construction
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Location
Naturita, 38.21832, -108.56870
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
