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Underground and radioactive : adventures of a uranium miner in 1970s New Mexico / R.D. Saunders.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saunders, Robert D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saunders, R. D., 1951-.
- Saunders, R. D.
- Uranium mines and mining--New Mexico.
- Uranium mines and mining.
- Uranium miners--New Mexico--Biography.
- Uranium miners.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 26, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2885-8
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