| 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 40 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055389 |
| OCR Text |
Show WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE #1 deposits, carnotite deposits, and there are Colorado geological books, I think with Dad's reports in them, but we have a copy that was misplaced. I don't know where it is right now. At least I've seen copies. We might not have had one. I 've seen copies of these reports and so on. Then also this is one of these patents, he and Dr. Flake, and I'm fairly certain in my mind that they also got some basic patents in about 1908 or 1910. In the few minutes I took today to try to run them down in the files I haven't been able to come across it. But I 'm sure he had other patents. In fact that referred to two numbers that I'm sure referred to their earlier patents on the extraction of vanadium, uranium, and radium from carnotite-type ore. CE: And the like. That leaves it wide open, doesn't it? The art of extracting metallic values from ores concentrate and the like. I'll bet they're more specific now. WH: Well, no. Well, I don't know. I'm not too familiar with patents. However in this it says something on that same vein and that it goes on to say while this improvement is particularly applicable to the recovery of uranium, vanadium, radium and other values from carnotite bearing ores, concentrates and 36 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055389 |
