Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FRANK Portland, Ore...
...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...
Portland, Ore...
When he was five the family moved to his father's second pastorate in the little (pop. 6,635) town of McMinnville, Ore. One Sunday there, Ted sat in church listening to an evangelist his father had invited to preach. "He finished, and he asked for true believers to come forward," says Adams. "Without even knowing I was doing it, I stood up and I saw my father standing there waiting. It was only three or four steps up there, but even as a six-year-old I thought to myself that they were terribly important steps...
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...