Ore Buying Station at Crooks Gap

Also Known As: Ore Buying Station at Split Rock. Ore Buying Station at Jeffrey City
State: Wyoming
Location: Crooks Gap
Time Period: 1956-1957
Facility Type: Department of Energy

Facility Description: The ore buying station at Crooks Gap purchased uranium ore for the AEC. The Lucius Pitkin managed and operated the Crooks Gap station from December 1956 to July 1957. The AEC leased the land and equipment from a private company.

Contractors: Lucius Pitkin, Inc. (1956-1957).
*The history of domestic uranium procurement under U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) contracts identifies a number of ore buying stations (sampling and storage sites) that were operated during the period late-1949 through the mid-1960s. During this period the AEC established ore-buying stations in new uranium producing areas where it appeared that ore production would be sufficient to support a uranium milling operation. The ideal scenario was to accumulate a sufficient stockpile of ore and construct a mill on the site. Under this scenario the AEC would then withdraw and sell the stockpile of ore to the mill operator for processing. Clean up of the area occupied by the ore-buying station was accomplished along with the cleanup of the mill site. For ore-buying stations that were not included as a part of a mill, the property was cleared, tract leases were terminated and the property was returned to its owners. Cleanup of ore-buying stations on or in the vicinity of mill tailings sites subject to the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 was accomplished, as necessary, under the DOE Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program.
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Listing:
The Ore Buying Station at Crooks Gap is listed as a Department of Energy (DOE) site under the EEOICPA.

Ore Buying Station at Crooks Gap Workers:
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