In 1951 after uranium was discovered in South Dakota's southern Black Hills more than 150 mines were ripped into the Earth where the Oglala Lakota once made their winter camp. Since then, radioactive tailings from those scars have been detected in Angostura Reservoir after a dam on the Cheyenne River broke in 1962. Beginning in 1958 Homestake Mining Company gouged uranium from New Mexico leaving piles of waste rock laden with selenium causing cancers and thyroid disease in its wake.
In 2019 because the Trump Organization despises Native Americans uranium mining was fast-tracked in and around Indian Country where tribes already suffer from diseases and birth defects wrought by radioactive contamination and in northwestern South Dakota cleanup in the Cave Hills area went for decades without remediation.
Clean Nuclear Energy Corp., a subsidiary of Nexus Uranium Corp., applied for a state exploration permit to drill exploratory holes up to 700 feet deep in search of uranium on state land and since Mark Hollenbeck had previously shilled for enCore Energy's nearby Dewey-Burdock uranium site Nexus appointed him to its advisory board in April 2026 to leverage his regional expertise ahead of regulatory hearings.
Following application submitted directly by Nexus Uranium Corp itself and not a subsidiary and after the May 2026 hearings the Chord Project permit stalled prompting Nexus to pivot its immediate exploration focus toward its projects in Wyoming and Arizona.
Canada-based Clean Nuclear Energy Corporation wants to drill through the water-bearing Inyan Kara Group on School and Public Lands property in Fall River County. The project is less than a mile from Craven Canyon where pictographs and rock art of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Mandan, Hidatsa, Ponca, eastern Dakota, and other Native American cultures are protected on the Black Hills National Forest.
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