Promise of a golden future (Mar, 1953)
Promise of a golden future
Yellow uranium ore from the Colorado Plateau is helping to bring atomic wonders to youLong ago, Indian braves made their war paint from the colorful sandstones of the Colorado Plateau.
THEY USED URANIUM-Their brilliant yellows came from carnotite, the important uranium-bearing mineral. Early in this century, this ore supplied radium for the famous scientists, Marie and Pierre Curie, and later vanadium for special alloys and steels.
Today, this Plateau—stretching over parts of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona —is our chief domestic source of uranium. Here, new communities thrive; jeeps and airplanes replace the burro; Geiger counters supplant the divining rod and miner’s hunch.
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