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...take the Equity minimum, and the stagehands volunteered to take big pay cuts. Says one prop man: "We figured they got a bad shot from that guy Kerr." Some help may have come too from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which suddenly made Watch seem disquietingly relevant. Says Jan Miner, who portrays the Washington matriarch who discovers that even her comfortable home is not safe from the fascist menace: "This play means as much...
...four-man contract mining team. It will take them nearly a month to produce the 2,000 tons of ore needed to yield one 401-oz. bar that is "four nines," or 99.99% pure gold. But they will never see any of it. Even so, says fellow Miner Dan Cooper, a big Dakota farm boy lately turned miner: "People back home are always asking, 'How much did you get?' They think you just pick the stuff up and put it in your pocket...
Question: You are a miner. The Government has ordered you to attend a safety clinic, but has not paid your $500 in travel expenses. You are asked to take a multiple-choice quiz designed to relax the group. But it turns out that questions are based on off-color jokes. Given these facts...
...Kerr McGee began to move out of Shiprock, abandoning uranium mine shafts and the uranium mill in favor of awaiting ore bodies found elsewhere on the reservation. In the early 1970s, the long-term effects of low-level radiation began to take their toll among the Navajo miner workforce. By 1974, 18 Navajo uranium miners had died from radiation-induced lung cancer, with many more near the hospitalization stage. Kerr McGee refused to take any responsibility or to pay medical expenses. As Kerr McGee spokesman Bill Phillips told one reporter in Washington, "I couldn't tell you what happened...
...uranium miner deaths are not enough, Kerr McGee's abandoned uranium mine amounts to something more than an eyesore for the Navajo people. The uranium mill at one time processed raw uranium ore into "yellowcake," discarding tons of low-grade uranium ore called tailings in the process. For every ton of uranium mined, only 2.24 ounces of processed ore results. Although the company is long gone, the 71 acres of uranium mill tailings remain, untreated and exposed in the city of Shiprock. The U.S. Department of Energy now estimates that those persons residing within a half-mile radius of uranium...