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URANIUM STRIKE in Wyoming may turn into one of the biggest yet. Part-time prospector and Machine-shop Operator Neil McNeice hit a rich ore deposit 45 miles east of Riverton. American Smelting & Refining considers the area so promising that it will operate with the AEC a uranium-buying station at Riverton...
...West's 20th century uranium rush, only one prospector thus far has been dry-gulched in 19th century fashion. He was Leroy Albert Wilson, a brawling, bullying Utah claim-jumper, whose body was found near the Kanab uranium strike with six .45 bullet holes in the head and back and a Geiger counter still clicking in his hand (TIME, May 31). The sheriff promptly arrested Wilson's prospecting partner: Tom Holland, 49, a jovial, six-foot settler, who had driven off with Wilson the day of the murder, but came back alone. He claimed that he had dropped...
Payoff in Manhattan. Last week Prospector Pick went to Manhattan to see about selling his mine. There he sat down with Floyd Odium of Atlas Corp., who has been busily scouting the Colorado plateau, picking up uranium claims in hopes of putting together a major new combine of uranium companies. After several days of dickering, Pick sold his mine to Odium's Atlas Corp. for a whopping...
...outstanding), the Odlum interests turned over to Lisbon 15 promising uranium claims in southeast Utah and cash for diamond-drilling with a total value of $930,000. The claims are all near the rich mine started by Charlie Steen (TIME, Aug. 3), the first millionaire prospector of the uranium age. Lisbon, whose stock has shot up from 20? when it was first issued in February to around $2.75, planned to start drilling operations this week...
...attempt to reach the area, they took another route. When the car came to a gorge Wilson got out alone to continue the journey on foot. Holland went back to town, took a nap in his trailer, bought a bottle of whiskey and spent a gay evening with some prospector friends...