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Adams, an attorney and former member of the Utah State Tax and Public Service Commissions, was interviewed by Mitch Haddard. Subjects: personal background, vanadium and uranium mining, uranium boom in Monticello, mining claims, geiger counters, Atomic Energy Commission, anti-trust cases, patents, small miners, problems with mining laws (43 pages).

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Anderson, a prospector, was interviewed by Patricia Ray in Salt Lake City. Subjects: personal background, experiences in Marysvale, exploration by father and sons, claims, methods of prospecting (33 pages).

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Kathy Biel interviewed this Navajo miner in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona. Subjects: employment, injury in mine, future of mining, royalties, housing, children (22 pages).

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Anderson was interviewed by Harry Henslick and Gary L. Shumway in Colorado. Subjects: personal background, fused vs. ferro vanadium, research, breeder reactors, the history of the Vanadium Corporation, Peru properties, Foote Minerals (13 pages, 18 pages).

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Baker spoke with John McFarlane in Green River, Utah. Subjects: horses, springs, the Chaplin family, damage caused by Lake Powell, teaching school in White Canyon, the mill and trading post, parties and diversions, school children, housing, Hanksville, White Canyon characters, Craig Carpenter, drifters, the Pick Mine (53 pages).

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Mitch Haddard interviewed Baldwin at the Continental Bank Building in Salt Lake City. Subjects: mining law, Navajos and mining, mineral rights and laws, uranium boom, Atomic Energy Commission, uranium claims, violence during the boom, conservation and ecology, large corporations (31 pages).

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Barton (b. 1910) spoke with Steve Guttman and John Donnely. Subjects: background, trucking business, school system, uranium mining, penny stocks, Moab (34 pages).

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Beach, a native of Moab, was interviewed by Steve Guttman. Subjects: background, bread company, effects of boom, assessor job (37 pages).

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Begay, a Navajo miner, was interviewed by Kathy Biel at the Black Hat and Blue Cap Mining camp near La Sal Creek, Colorado. Subjects: school, work, job prospects (3 pages).

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Clare Engle interviewed Benedict at the Union Carbide facility in Uravan, Colorado. Subjects: personal background, experiences at the post office during boom years, family, reflections on life at Uravan (18 pages).

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Benson was interviewed by Kathy Biel in Shiprock, New Mexico. Subjects: uranium mines, tribal council, education, problems of young Navajos, future employment on reservation, Anglo attitudes, exploitation of Navajos, Bureau of Indian Affairs (21 pages).

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Mitch Haddard interviewed attorney Daniel Berman in his office in the Kearns building, downtown Salt Lake City. Subjects: background and law schooling, Niseley v. Union Carbide, the Village Theaters case, anti-trust lawyers and litigation (35 pages).

Scope and Contents Clare Engle interviewed Beverly, a director of radiation and pollution control in the mining and metals division of Union Carbide, in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: personal background, mill processes, Vanadium tailings and mills in the 1950s, effluents, mine safety and regulations, public awareness of hazards, Radon gas levels, workmen's compensation, smoking and lung cancer, silicosis and ventilation, respirators, radium in nature, ecological concerns, reclamation projects, the...

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Steve Guttman and John Donnely spoke with Beyeler, a veterinarian and county commissioner in Moab, Utah. Subjects: politics, miners, uranium boom, service clubs, county commissioner, drug problem, sewer, zoning problems, airport and highways, pollution (34 pages).