| 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 10 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056004 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROBERT BLANC #1 issue comes out on, oh, sort of--it's the annual mining issue. This is our operation at Petrotonics. This was a new shovel which is one of the biggest shovels in operation in uranium. And there are hundred-ton trucks, which are also some of the largest. See the size of the guys? We just put this in. The point being that these papers--each year this is an annual issue and it sort of recaps things, the status of the industry, and in addition covers a lot of history. And I have kept the last three years, so you'll find a lot of Wyoming history in this. LW: Oh, that's what we need. RB: All right. I .don't know again whether Gary knows this chap, Peck. They're two brothers in Riverton, and I always forget which one is which. But one is really the Wyoming historian. Well, I forget. But I'm sure it's in here. And if Gary is really pursuing the uranium industry and history in Wyoming, he should certainly be in touch with Peck, if he's not already. He may well be already. But he is certainly the unofficial historian. So, again, I think that's probably all I ought to say about that phase of the history. And then maybe sort of then skip onto the second go-round. What happened when it appeared that we had all the uranium that was needed, and this was 6 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6n32419/1056004 |
