| Title |
William Everett & Marge Haldane, Grand Junction, Colorado, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
William Everett & Marge Haldane, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Everett, William; Haldane, Marge |
| Contributor |
Engle, Clare |
| Date |
1970-08-04 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Everett, William--Interviews; Haldane, Marge--Interviews; Vanadium industry--United States; Uranium industry--United States; Vanadium Corporation of America |
| Keywords |
Union Carbide |
| Description |
Transcript (62 pages) of an interview by Clare Engle with William Everett and Marge Haldane, on August 4, 1970. From tape number UR-179 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Clare Engle interviewed the Haldanes in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: uranium plants in the 1940s, army engineers, Manhattan district, exploration program and the VCA, the boom, fixed scales and unfair pricing, conflict with oil leases, Mr. Burwell, the demise of VCA, the town of Uravan, Doc Haldane, family situation, politics and unions, crime, individual miners (62 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
44 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/s6156q49 |
| Topic |
Uranium industry; Vanadium industry; Vanadium Corporation of America |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055417 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49 |
| Title |
Page 14 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055363 |
| OCR Text |
Show WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE #1 thing. This was strictly an exploration program and not a development or production program, because at this time there had been no price established or anything for the purchase of uranium and no purchase contracts on it. They would buy it, they would buy uranium if it was high grade. It had to be, I think their requirements at that time were about one percent U308 but ... CE: Well, did you ever hear Dr. Haldane mention why they weren't able to go onto VCA' s property? The report stated very specifically that they were not allowed to enter the Monument Number Two property. WH: Well, there are two, two reasons for this. One, was that there was a lot of rivalry in these days. Now part of this rivalry diverts back to early 1942 when to maintain the war effort for vanadium production the vanadium for the war effort, USV actually had determined on the Monticello site to put in their mill because it was more centrally located. Well, VCA raised a terrific objection to this, that there was no point why Union Carbide, US Vanadium should be given this privilege and not them. So as a compromise measure USV decided, that well, we can get into production within six months by converting the old smelters at Durango into a vanadium mill and so on, 10 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055363 |
