| 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 16 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055365 |
| OCR Text |
Show WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE #1 WH: Well, well, this I did. Among other things I didn't last too long in that position. i was transferred out after about a year, because I got cross-wise with the area engineer, the army engineer. He and I didn't see eye to eye on many things. One of the big problems was that there was a recapture clause in the contract with US Vanadium that when the tailings were completed, the treatment was completed and when the war was over and things like this, that the company had the option to buy back. So I was endeavoring in some aspects to hold the cost down because in the pilot plant work and so on we had been able to produce U3 08 concentrates for, if memory serves me correctly, for four to five dollars a pound. Well, about the time we got well into operation with these, with our mills, why our costs were probably double that. There wasn't an awful lot of reason for it another than just typical government red tape and rigamarloe. I could go through several examples, but I don't think they would apply to history other than the fact that eventually it got to the point where I could not get along with the are engineer. But when, when this did happen, then they transferred me in on company account and to make the original, some original uranium reserve estimates on primarily 12 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055365 |
