Mining the West: Primary Elements

Mining the West - Voices from the Field

Item Set

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  Radium
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  Atomic Energy Commission: Albuquerque Operations Security Division, 1957 Poster
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  Claims [6: Uranium Prospector]
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  Kennecott Utah Copper Refinery and Smelter with view of Tailings Pond, Magna, Utah

  1917
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  Charles A. Steen's hilltop mansion in Moab, Utah

  1955
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  Men inspecting rock at vanadium mine

  1930 - 1950
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  Uranium miner pushing cart

  1956

  Spatial CoverageMoab, Utah
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  Uranium mining machinery and lot

  Spatial CoverageUtah
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  Uranium mining equipment
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  Prospectors Looking At Mining Equipment
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  Prospectors mining uranium
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  Mining Machinery
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  "Doodle-Bugging" for Uranium

  1954

  SubjectMining

  Spatial Coverage Utah; Moab
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  Prospectors looking at mining equipment

  SubjectUranium Mining; Uranium miners; Mining equipment
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  Morenci Mine

  1980
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  Ore dump and waste dump on Golden Gate Lode Claim of Eagle Group of Mines Mineral County, Nevada; looking Southeast from point near camp on Golden Gate Lode.

  1908-1912
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  Men at mine opening
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  Geneva by-products area
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  Geneva coke ovens and refinery
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  U.S. Mining Company tracks
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  Miners in mine shaft

  1940-1970
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  Fig. 6. Bingham Mine

  1917
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  Fig. 9. Tipsy: Labyrinth (UT, copper).

  2012
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  Fig. 4. Bingham Mine

  1917
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  Fig. 10. Guggenheim Museum. Image courtesy of the author.