| Title |
Robert Blanc, Costa Mesa, California, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Robert Blanc, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Blanc, Robert |
| Contributor |
West, Linda |
| Date |
1970-08 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Shirley Basin, Carbon County, Wyoming, United States |
| Subject |
Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Blanc, Robert--Inverviews; Getty Oil Company; Shirley Basin (Wyo.); Uranium industry--United States; Uranium mines and mining; Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, inc. |
| Keywords |
Skelley Oil Company; Atomic Energy Commission |
| Description |
Transcript (25 pages) of an interview by Linda West with Robert Blanc, in August 1970. From tape number 86 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Blanc, the minerals exploration manager for Getty Oil, spoke with Linda West in Costa Mesa, California. Subjects: uranium exploration, AEC, Chama basin, uranium in Canada, uranium boom. (25 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
25 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/s6n32419 |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Uranium industry; Uranium mines and mining; Getty Oil Company; Kerr-Mcgee Oil Industries, inc.; Wyoming--Shirley Basin |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056024 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6n32419 |
| Title |
Page 9 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056003 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROBERT BLANC #1 early history of Petrotomics beyond this--there 's a lot of detail and good history that you ought to get on this. A chap within our organization by the name of Norm Grant was involved at that time, or came very shortly after the mine started and knows that history and knows it well. Unfortunately, he's out of the country right now, but he' 11 be back soon, and I would suggest if you continue this program and if you're around, that you really ought to get together with Norm and talk about it. LW: Yeah, he sounds like the man to talk to. RB: Yeah, Norm's a mine engineer and was in charge of the mine and mill for sometime. So he not only is knowledgeable in that period of history of the industry, but was also very active in Canada in uranium in the early days. In fact, that's how he happened to come to our organization. So beyond that, which is really just a sort of thumbnail sketch of how the company got into mining and uranium and how we got started in the Shirley Basin, I think it would probably be inappropriate for me to say any more because I'm just not that knowledgeable about the details. Incidentally, I brought home some papers today. I assume Gary is aware of these, but they're published once a year in Riverton, Wyoming. A special 5 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6n32419/1056003 |
