| 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 28 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055377 |
| OCR Text |
Show WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE #1 Type. What this one was, the cutters were tangent to a two-inch pipe on the side which means that you had a gap in the center of the cutter so big and the trajectory of your coarse material would get caught there and the values are in the fines and the fines get around here so they were getting a greater amount of coarse material. Now whether it was an oversight or what, I don't know, but it was designed incorrectly anyhow. But anyhow through, about the time we were just getting really going on the sampling program another crisis appeared in the uranium area, and this was the conflict between the oil and gas and potash leases with mining claims that had been located subsequent to these oil and gases leases. CE: Now when was this approximately? WH: Oh, this was approximately '52, again it's in this-CE: At the beginning of the boom. WH: Yeah, this is right, and it looked for awhile as though maybe 60, 70, 80 percent of the uranium mining claims that had been located would be invalid, so this Uranium Ore Producers Association was the nucleus, but anyhow, through our efforts--and we all worked darn hard and trips to Washington and things like this--we finally got [ it so] the multiple-use 24 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055377 |
