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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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Mitch Haddard interviewed this Salt Lake City attorney. Subjects: personal background, experience with uranium law, patenting uranium claims, Atomic Energy Commission, large uranium companies, preservation and ecology, marketability test, antiquated mining laws, property, mineral, leasing, and grazing rights (47 pages).

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Moore, the chief chemist for Union Carbide, was interviewed in Grand Junction, Colorado, by Clare Engle. Subjects: uses for uranium, war-time industry, reactivating Uravan, separation processes, Union Carbide, new processes and projects, old methods of separation (22 pages).

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 ...

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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).

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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).

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Clare Engle spoke with Dr. Moore in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: childhood and schooling, World War II, company doctor in Uravan, living conditions and contract (11 pages).