Ernie Gordon, Grand Junction, CO, tape 2: Uranium Oral Histories

Gordon, a specialist in mining operations, talked with Rich Gibbs and Greg Brolin. Subjects: Vernon Pick's mine, the role of the AEC on the Colorado Plateau, early years of exploration, and reflections on his time at the AEC. In a second conversation, he covers his personal background, how large finds changed the industry, type of groundwork done by geologists, private versus AEC explorations, methods of ore sampling, the problem of disequilibrium, Mexico and South America, the importance of exploration and drilling, bribing geologists. Tape #96.