Mining the West: Primary Elements

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• Radium
• Atomic Energy Commission: Albuquerque Operations Security Division, 1957 Poster
• Claims [6: Uranium Prospector]
• Kennecott Utah Copper Refinery and Smelter with view of Tailings Pond, Magna, Utah
• Charles A. Steen's hilltop mansion in Moab, Utah
  Hilltop mansion built by uranium tycoon, Charles A. Steen.
• Men inspecting rock at vanadium mine
  Navajo Vanadium Mine [8]. Black and white exterior photograph of a Navajo man in a cow skin jacket holding a rock with a white man in a cowboy hat. Monument Valley (Arizona-Utah) landscape in the background.
• Uranium miner pushing cart
  "Uranium Mining P.9" Typical small mining operation in early days of uranium production. This sort of manual activity was soon replaced by efficient, mechanized mining. This photo was taken in 1956 near Moab, Utah. Gift of: Glen Snarr(Evans Advertising)
• Uranium mining machinery and lot
  Big Indian District of Utah. Headframe, shops, and hoist building. Photo by Midwest, Grand Junction, Colo
• Uranium mining equipment
  "Uranium Mining P.4" Uranium Mining; Uraniuim miners; Mining equiptment
• Prospectors Looking At Mining Equipment
  Uranium Mining; Uranium miners; Mining equipment
• Prospectors mining uranium
  "Uranium Mining P.3" Uranium Mining; Uranium miners; Mining equipment
• Mining Machinery
  "Uranium Mining P.19" Uranium prospecting at Temple Mountain. Hal Rummel photograph.
• "Doodle-Bugging" for Uranium
  "Uranium Mining P.10" "Doodle-bugging" for uranium, Moab, 1954. Gift of Austin Fife.
• Prospectors looking at mining equipment
  "Uranium Mining P.5" Prospectors looking at mining equipment
• Morenci Mine
• 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.
• Men at mine opening
• Geneva by-products area
• Geneva coke ovens and refinery
• U.S. Mining Company tracks
• Miners in mine shaft
• Fig. 6. Bingham Mine
• Fig. 9. Tipsy: Labyrinth (UT, copper).
• Fig. 4. Bingham Mine
• Fig. 10. Guggenheim Museum. Image courtesy of the author.