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FLOYD ODLUM'S ATLAS Corp., already one of the biggest uranium miners, is growing still bigger. For $7,250,000 Atlas bought more than 50% of the Almar uranium mine through purchase of Almar Minerals Inc., which owns about 15,000 acres with at least 600,000 tons of ore in the Big Indian area of Utah. Total Atlas uranium investment: $37 million...
These student theses have been circulated in libraries throughout the country and have provided scholars with interesting and sometimes illuminating descussions of topics which have not been otherwise fully explored. The whole Far East, in fact, is wide open, a veritable gold mine for the enterprising scholar. M. A. candidates often use their theses as preliminaries to Ph.D. works, and from there, it is hoped, to works of outstanding scholarly merit...
Back in 1946, young Joe Cooper and his" father-in-law, Fletcher Bronson, of Monticello, Utah, paid $1,000 for 500 acres of copper-mining property in southwestern Utah. They soon regretted the investment: the copper ore was so heavily contaminated with uranium that nobody wanted to process it. Then the atomic age got into swing, and Cooper and the Bronson family forgot all about copper. Their Happy Jack mine never had a waste dump, because every pound of rock dug up was commercial-grade ore. Last week Cooper, now 45, and the Bronsons decided that the mine...
...friend of mine did recently, I know...
...happily at a piece of mule meat. "After a long ride," he explains, "I get hungry as a bear." In the morning Jane suggests a clubby breakfast. "I wish I was a peach tree," she sings, "a growin' in the ground . . . And if he wants them peaches of mine He'll have to climb the tree...