Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg, 45, director of chemical research at the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, explains with disarming simplicity: "I discover new elements." Born in the mining town of Ishpeming, Mich., he found his calling in a Los Angeles high-'school science class, pursued it at the...
In 1952 six nations which had been fighting among themselves for centuries -Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-formed the European Coal and Steel Community, surrendered to its control 188 iron ore mines, 355 steel companies operating 455 iron and steel plants, 145 coal mining companies operating 459...
The decision meant that while the U.S. will honor its existing contracts to buy uranium concentrate from mills, it does not intend to sign any new contracts that would appreciably increase production. Thus, after ten years of an all-out program to expand uranium mining. AEC put on the squeeze...
This made little sense to uranium men, who saw as their only incentive a present-day market for their ores. Many of the small-time uranium miners who do not have contracts to sell to existing mills will fold up altogether. Such a fallout could peril future U.S. uranium supply...
With their production of concentrate limited, even the big integrated producers were planning to cut back the costly ore search. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., which operates the richest U.S. mine near New Mexico's Ambrosia Lake region (TIME, Sept. 30), set a course that probably will be followed by...