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Munro spoke with Clare Engle in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: personal background, Uranium and Vanadium, Laird Burwell, Uravan, mining history, important figures in the industry, health, women, retirement (22 pages).

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Suzanne Simon interviewed Nielson and Guyman at the Happy Jack mine in Fry Canyon, Utah. Following the interview, other miners joined the discussion. Subjects: mining accidents, Marquis mine, Rebel mine, Happy Jack mine, Blue Lizard mine, mill in Monticello, Bull's-Eye mine, the Marines and a flash flood, Shumway's mines, room sizes and supports, horses in the mines, mining as a way of life (38 pages).

Scope and Contents Noonan, a miner and prospector, was interviewed by Dorothy Erick and Suzanne Simon in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: the radio-geophysical technique, schooling, radon detection equipment, exploring the Shumway property, Elk Ridge, the Happy Jack mine, radioactivity at the mills, the VCA pilot mill, business dealings with the Shumway family, personal mining ventures, experiences with Navajos, miners and working conditions, mining camps, efficiency and costs ( 78 pages) He later talked with Kathy...

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Nugent was interviewed by Suzanne Simon at his home in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: personal background; packtrain to remote areas in Idaho; education at the University of Idaho; Callahan Company; lead/zinc mine in Coeur d'Alene mining district; government reserve around Uravan, Colorado; Navajo miners; mining the Monde Butte formation; Wyoming; mining camps and equipment; ventilation; mine inspections; cost of drilling (35 pages).

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Oliver was interviewed by Harry Henslick in Norwood, Colorado. Subjects: hauling ore by wagon, prospecting, vanadium and uranium on the Colorado Plateau, working in the mines, Denny Viles, taxes on miners, drilling (40 pages).

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Suzanne Simon interviewed Oliver in Bluff, Utah. Subjects: Ute Indian War in Bluff, outlaws, "the ditch," public health, colonizing, the United Order, driving teams on San Juan hill, sheep and cattle, the Navajo and Ute wars, Posey and the White Men, guns, predators, wells, Uranium and Oil booms (35 pages).

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Richard Gibbs interviewed Palmer, manager and executive director of the Colorado Mining Association. Subjects: AEC's policy on domestic uranium procurement, big business and the uranium industry, competency of the AEC, AEC's leasing policy, radon dotter danger, drilling, E. L. Cord property, trends in the uranium industry, eccentricities of people, looking back (36 pages).

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Perkins, a Navajo prospector and miner, was interviewed by Kathy Biel, Milan Pavlovich, and Jeff Jones. Subjects: personal background, mining experience, dynamite, pulling pillars, superstitions, mining on the reservation, cheating of Indians, tribal council, Navajos and money, gold mining, assays, stocks during boom, affirmative action, prospecting for gold ore, prospecting for uranium (61 pages).

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Pope talked with Steve Guttman in the commissioner's office of the county courthouse in Moab, Utah. Subjects: effect of boom on power company, expansion, mines and power, accidents, road conditions, water shortage, county budget, housing problems, teenagers, airport (52 pages).

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Suzanne Simon interviewed the Pritchards in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: personal background, life in mining camps, Fry Canyon, White Canyon, Payday repair shop, the AEC, road crews, flash floods, accidents, maintenance (29 pages).

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Mitch Haddard interviewed Pruitt, a geologist and lawyer, in Salt Lake City. Subjects: geological work for the government, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of the Interior, granting patents, mining law, small miners, large corporations, anti-trust litigation, conservation and ecology, technology (59 pages).