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...nation's biggest gold producer into a uranium miner. Homestake Mining Co., which produced $18 million worth of gold last year and has spent $500,000 looking for uranium, has discovered a rich deposit at the end of a 3,200-ft. tunnel driven underground next to Millionaire Geologist Charles Steen's fabulous Mi Vida mine...
Last week Donald Bartlett and his associates added to the excitement; they sold their "Miracle Mine?" to Manhattan Geologist-Engineer M. William Ditto, representing a number of interests, for an announced "$1,000,000." Actually, the for buyers paid only $35,000, promised to pay the rest in royalties...
...Darkest America, Rotten to the Core, Stop That Leak!). But S.U.I. survived. Historian Benjamin Shambaugh helped make the entire state history-conscious; Paleontologist Samuel Calvin became the ranking U.S. authority on the Pleistocene age of North America; bearded Thomas H. Macbride became the "Father of Iowa Conservation"; and Geologist Bohumil Shimek won international fame for his theory on the origin of loess (loam) fossils...
...climbers was Mario Puchoz, 36, whose friends called him "the Mule." In World War II Puchoz fought on the Russian front-but K-2 proved harsher still. On June 21 the Mule died of pneumonia, at 19,000 feet. He was buried near the grave of U.S. Geologist Arthur Gilkey. who was swept away by an avalanche during the 1953 U.S. assault...
Department of National Development, Geologist H. G. Raggatt, then pointed out that more dry holes would be drilled than good ones in Australia's search for oil. Heartened at that bit of sound reasoning, Aussie traders started bidding stocks up again. Oil and uranium issues recovered about 80% of their losses. Their confidence all but fully restored, investors down under were happy again. Said one: "It's like the lottery...