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Gibbon, a partner with the law firm of Senior and Senior, which specializes in natural resource law, spoke with Mitch Haddard in Salt Lake City. Subjects: legal matters dealing with uranium mining, patenting claims, mining law, overlapping claims, large corporations and individual miners, reviving old claims, penny stocks, public land law (25 pages).

Scope and Contents Clare Engle interviewed Golian in Santa Ana, California. Subjects: childhood and MIT, radar in Britain, jerry-rigged devices, Battle of Britain, the war in Germany and the Far East, paratroopers, German research on the A-bomb and rockets, cosmic ray research, atomic energy, submarines, nuclear testing in the Pacific, radiation shielding, Hiroshima bomb, dangers of reactors, public perception, the environment and the cold war, earthquake theory, waste disposal, isotopes for pasteurization,...

Scope and Contents Gordon, a specialist in mining operations, talked with Rich Gibbs and Greg Brolin. Subjects: Vernon Pick's mine, the role of the AEC on the Colorado Plateau, early years of exploration, and reflections on his time at the AEC. In a second conversation, he covers his personal background, how large finds changed the industry, type of groundwork done by geologists, private versus AEC explorations, methods of ore sampling, the problem of disequalibrium, Mexico and South America, the importance of...

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Greene, a Salt Lake City attorney, was interviewed by Mitch Haddard. Subjects: personal background and schooling, mining law, penny stocks, claims, uranium boom, anti-trust, patenting claims, environmental factors (26 pages).

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Richard Gibbs and Greg Broline interviewed Grutt at the AEC compound in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: equilibrium in uranium, AEC programs, exploration, private vs. AEC exploration, other minerals associated with uranium, future of ore reserves in the West (20 pages).

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Haggard spoke with Dorothy Erick at his home in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: personal background, experience in the mines, hauling ore, flash floods, drilling (in Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado), conditions necessary for ore, Elk Ridge, radiation (74 pages).

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Clare Engle interviewed the Haldanes in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: uranium plants in the 1940s, army engineers, Manhattan district, exploration program and the VCA, the boom, fixed scales and unfair pricing, conflict with oil leases, Mr. Burwell, the demise of VCA, the town of Uravan, Doc Haldane, family situation, politics and unions, crime, individual miners (62 pages).

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Hancock spoke with Suzanne Simon and Dorothy E. Erick in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: F. A. Sitton, White Canyon Mining Company, assaying the ore, radium king, claim jumping, hiring miners, shuttlecars and front-end loaders, using airplane for prospecting, Union Carbide, the AEC, health hazards, ventilation problems, federal mining regulations (44 pages).

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Hansen spoke with Dorothy Erick in Monticello, Utah. Subjects: winter work at the Happy Jack, psychological effects of prospecting and mining, pioneer family, the ferry, medicine and supplies in Monticello, the boom, selling the mine, family optimism, sellers and buyers, mine safety, transportation (35 pages).

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Hansen, director of the San Juan County Navajo Adult Basic Education (ABE) program was interviewed by Kathy Biel. Subjects: background of the ABE, non-verbal communication, attitudes and values of Navajos, school, Native American Church, missionary experiences, problems, vocational training, student advisory council (31 pages).

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Harrison was interviewed by Richard Gibbs. Subjects: personal background, involvement with the uranium industry, Blanding and Uravan during the boom, mining, vanadium production, litigation, Lackaluker Mining Company, Hidden Splendor Mining Company, independent miners during the boom, AEC leasing program, safety of mines (25 pages).

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Clare Engle interviewed Harvey in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: mining districts at Uravan, mining techniques, ventilation, rotation of miners, open pit mines, ecology and public awareness, smoking and mining (21 pages).

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Hayne was interviewed by Mitch Haddard in Salt Lake City. Subjects: personal background, problems in securities, the Salt Lake Exchange, Charlie Steen, shell game (18 pages).