Box 7
Container
Contains 13 Results:
Walter Livingston, 1970
File — Box: 7, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Livingston was interviewed by Richard Gibbs and Clare Engel. Subjects: personal background, early mining experiences, theories of uranium deposits, sources of uranium, Union Mines Development Company, patent for leaching uranium ore, the Morrison Formation, Manhattan Project, people in the industry, uranium deposits on Temple Mountain, Union Mines Survey of the Morrison Formation, Livingston's in situ leaching process, equipment used in the ...
Dates:
1970
John W. Lowe, 1970
File — Box: 7, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Lowe spoke with Mitch Haddard at his office in the Walker Bank Building in Salt Lake City. Subjects: legal background, uranium claims cases, mining law and patents, leasing of claims, conflicting claims, courts, large corporations and mining, assessment of claims, shell game, penny stocks, anti-trust litigation, mining and the environment (34 pages).
Dates:
1970
Carl Mahon, 1970
File — Box: 7, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Suzanne Simon interviewed Mahon at his home in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: Mahon's early interest in mining, prospecting and the boom, Montezuma Creek, naive prospectors, red-hot claims, development, Peate claims, the Happy Jack mine, Navajo miners, the "red-headed woman," milling, the Sandy mine, a job with the Bureau of Land Management, bighorn sheep sightings, hunts, water, a ewe named Mabel, lambs, Father Escalante (79 pages).
Dates:
1970
Jimmie Manheimer, 1970
File — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Manheimer, a Navajo miner, was interviewed by Milan Pavlovitch, Kathy Biel, and Jeff Jones. Subjects: mining accidents, personal background, trees in mines, sawmill job, children (26 pages).
Dates:
1970
Dan and Leon Marsing, 1970
File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Suzanne Simon interviewed the Marsings at their home in Moab, Utah. Subjects: working at the mill, the ferry, learning to fly, the Happy Jack, Bronson and Cooper, extracting ore, Free's store, living conditions, airplane adventures, flying bishop, road conditions, transient miners, working conditions and safety policy, crops, company nurse, Rattlesnake Ridge claim, tailings (41 pages).
Dates:
1970
Chester Martin, 1970
File — Box: 7, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Clare Engel interviewed Martin in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: employment with Union Carbide, the atomic bomb, peacetime uses of atomic energy, pollution, government compensation, AEC bonuses, economic ups and downs, small miners, investments, competition, contract miners, safety, the school and the mill, camp layout, unions and management, layoffs, cost of maintaining Uravan, company benefits, problems (81 pages).
Dates:
1970
S. A. Mayer, 1970
File — Box: 7, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Richard Gibbs and Greg Brolin talked with Mayer at the AEC compound in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: radiation in mines, uranium business, AEC and leasing (25 pages).
Dates:
1970
Maurice McCabe, 1970
File — Box: 7, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Kathy Biel interviewed McCabe in his office at the Navajo Office of Economic Opportunity. Subjects: personal background and schooling, tribal renenues, mills and leases to miners, unions and labor, Navajo nationalism, education, industry (21 pages).
Dates:
1970
Daniel L. Meyer, 1970
File — Box: 7, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Meyer spoke with Mitch Haddard at his office in the Kearns Building in Salt Lake City. Subjects: personal background, mining industry, government, federal land ownership, Standard Oil, consulting firm, fuels, Utah's land policy on minng, uranium market, mining laws, rights, and patents, leasing of public land, pollution and mining, small miners and mining law, mining coporations, public land laws (66 pages, 18 pages).
Dates:
1970
Ralph Miller Jr., 1970
File — Box: 7, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Steve Guttman and John Donnely interviewed Miller at his grocy store in Moab, Utah. Subjects: boyhood in Moab, grocery business in the uranium boom, credit problems, employees, produce, meats, transportation, telephone company, tourism, civic affairs, problems while on city council, competition with City Market, future of Moab (43 pages).
Dates:
1970