Underground and Radioactive

Adventures of a Uranium Miner in 1970s New Mexico

R.D. Saunders (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6996-0 (ISBN)

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Evoking images of the vanishing world of uranium, the author shares his adventures, misadventures and respect for his fellow miners through a unique blend of traditional and offbeat storytelling by way of a collection of character sketches, entertaining anecdotes, and glimpses into a time and place and way of working that are now gone.

Capturing for posterity the vanishing world of uranium mining, this candid memoir recounts the author's adventures and misadventures working underground in 1970s New Mexico, the "Uranium Capital of the World." Detailed descriptions of the tools, methods and hazards of uranium mining, along with character sketches and entertaining anecdotes, provide a colorful glimpse of a bygone way of life--drilling, blasting and mucking the sandstone of the Grants mineral belt in the San Juan Basin.

R.D. Saunders is a retired economist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Table of 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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	31 photos, glossary, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	1-4766-6996-1 / 1476669961
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6996-0 / 9781476669960
Zustand	Neuware