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Underground and radioactive : adventures of a uranium miner in 1970s New Mexico
- Title
- Underground and radioactive : adventures of a uranium miner in 1970s New Mexico / R.D. Saunders.
- Author
- Saunders, R. D., 1951-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HD8039.U72 U673 2017 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 210 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This memoir recounts the author's adventures and misadventures working underground in 1970s New Mexico, "Uranium Capital of the World." Descriptions of tools, methods and hazards of uranium mining, with character sketches and anecdotes, provide a glimpse of a bygone way of life--drilling, blasting and mucking the sandstone of the Grants mineral belt in the San Juan Basin"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Prologue -- School Days -- What Next? -- The New Hand -- Camping -- Orientation -- The Underground -- Moving Up -- Progress -- Attempted Rape -- A Place to Call Home -- Miner's Helper -- Down the Chute -- The Iron Blossom -- Revenge -- The Sandman -- A Glimpse of the Future -- Encino -- Cal -- Alone -- Darkness -- Ghost in the Stope -- Ana Maria -- Fuzzmobile -- Beginning of the End -- End of the Line -- Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Mining Terminology -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9781476669960
- 1476669961
- 9781476628851 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017018382
- OCLC
- ocn967500975
- 967500975
- SCSB-5934794
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library