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Box Elder County cancels contract with landfill near shores of Great Salt Lake
Meanwhile, some state lawmakers are expressing regret about a 2016 decision that would allow the landfill to take out-of-state waste.
(photo courtesy Fox13) This Aug. 14, 2019, file photo shows an overview of the landfill on the tip of the Promontory Point cape jutting into the Great Salt Lake. Box Elder County has now cancelled its contingency contract with the landfill, which has no other contracts in place to receive waste.
  | March 5, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
Quickly and without discussion, the Box Elder County Commission voted Wednesday to rescind a contract that would have sent the countyâs trash to Promontory Point in case of an emergency.
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The White Mesa Mill was constructed in the early 1980s and is the last conventional uranium mill operating in the country. There are multiple pools filled with radioactive material on site.
Executives from Energy Fuels Resources, which owns the White Mesa Mill in San Juan County, announced last month that they had successfully produced a concentration of rare earth metals from something called monazite sand. And this week, they announced plans to import at least 2,500 tons of the sand a year for the next three years from a plant in the state of Georgia.
Energy Fuels president Mark Chalmers told potential investors on a call Tuesday that the company plans to ramp up production in 2021.