| Title |
Everett Blackburn, Placerville, Colorado, Uranium History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Everett Blackburn, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Blackburn, Everett |
| Contributor |
Henslick, Harry |
| Date |
1970-07-29 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Placerville, San Miguel County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Blackburn, Everett--Interviews; Vanadium industry--United States; Vanadium Corporation of America; Navajo Indian Reservation--Social conditions; Navajo Indian Reservation--Economic conditions |
| Description |
Transcript (29 pages) of an interview by Harry Henslick with Everett Blackburn, on July 29, 1970. From tape number 111 in the Uranium History Project |
| Abstract |
Blackburn was interviewed by Harry Henslick in Placerville, Colorado. Subjects: how he became interested in mining, experiences on the reservation, job at VCA, his accident, civil suit against FCA and Union Carbide, Monument mine, future of the vanadium industry, DeVar Shumway (29 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
29 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/s6rv2vsc |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Vanadium industry; Vanadium Corporation of America; United States--Navajo Indian Reservation; Navajo Indians--Social conditions; Navajo Indians--Economic conditions |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053686 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rv2vsc |
| Title |
Page 31 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1053681 |
| OCR Text |
Show EVERETT BLACKBURN HH: And is there, are there specifics as to what type of work has to be done? EB: No, you can build roads, or you can-- HH: Someone suggested to me that today in Utah, as in the past, it could be most anything and it would be hard to prove that you haven't gone out and thrown rock off the road for four days or whatever it might be, but that in Colorado there was a something about a shaft has to be dropped. EB: It's supposed to be ten, ten foot assessment, it's suppose to be like you drive a four by seven exposed rock, ten feet on it, that's what you figure a hundred dollars worth but most of the boys just put it up in surveying and road work and things. HH: So you can still use it and in things like that. EB: Yeah, and hillsides and things like that and we can still use it though. HH: About how much in reserves have you got drilled out and marked out? EB: Not very much, no, just mighty little. HH: Now are your mines, the claims that you have are they high in vanadium or are they high in uranium? EB: Oh yeah, they're pretty high in vanadium. HH: They're vanadium claims. EB: They lay in Bowl Canyon, on Long Park. I got a hundred 27 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rv2vsc/1053681 |
