WONDER MINERAL: Utah's Uranium
To most persons, the word uranium became significant during die early 1950's when the badlands of the Colorado Plateau suddenly became alive with prospectors and miners feverishly hunting for the precious metal. Reminiscent of the California gold-rush days of a century before, both old pros and "city-fellers" set out on foot, in jeeps, in airplanes, and on burros in search of the modern-day version of the "Dutchman's gold"; and "investors" swarmed into the
BY D O N SORENSEN Mr. Sorensen, a candidate for the Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois, was employed under a grant from the Utah State University Research Council when the research for this article was done. The author is grateful for the collaboration of Dr. Leonard J. Arrington of Utah State University Economics Department in preparing this article for publication. Aerial view of the entrance of a uranium mine incline in the Red Canyon mining district in southeastern Utah. The photograph shows the typical desolate country where uranium is found and one of the many roads constructed as a result of isolated discoveries. ATLAS MINERALS DIVISION, ATLAS CORPORATION
