| Title |
Grant L. Shumway, Blanding, Utah, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Grant L. Shumway, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Shumway, Grant L. |
| Contributor |
Erick, Dorothy |
| Date |
1970-07-21 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Shumway, Grant L.--Interviews; Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Utah |
| Description |
Transcript (57 pages) of an interview by Dorothy Erick with Grant L. Shumway, on July 21, 1970. From tape number UR-143 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Dorothy Erick interviewed Shumway, a geologist, in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: Elk Ridge mine, the bust, nuclear power plants, pollution, international market, large corporations and small miners, health and safety, future of nuclear power, geology and prospecting, geiger counter, airplanes, Navajo regulations (57 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
57 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6km1jv6 |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Uranium mines and mining |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053562 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6km1jv6 |
| Title |
Page 9 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053511 |
| OCR Text |
Show GRANT L. SHUMWAY #1 DE: GS: prospecting very much, but this is the reasoning why things have gone the way they have. It's very important in the industry. In 1966 they told us anyone that had a mine that wanted to continue to mine it from 1966 through 1970 could enter into a stretch-out program. In other words, ship lesser amounts of uranium from 1 66 to '68 in order to be able to ship ore from '68 to '70, see. Well, the ore bodies that we had at that time weren't sufficient that we felt we wanted to stretch-out, so we didn't and we went ahead and shipped what ores that we felt we could make a good profit on, up through 1968. Then we closed the mine. The books are still closed, and right now I have oh, numerous claims and numerous properties that have potential and the early assessment work on them in anticipation of a price increase. Of course, anyone that's familiar with the uranium industry and familiar with the projections of what's going to happen with these nuclear reactors, why, it's just--it's fantastic. The government, for instance, was building a uranium ore reserve from 1948 through 1968. During that period of time they only ended up with a surplus of 50,000 tons of uranium. The whole AEC program, according to the projections of the atomic reactors that will be 7 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6km1jv6/1053511 |
