Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Place, an abandoned adobe hut, Ira and his friends played cards for a while, but the cheap muscatel wine they were drinking soon got the better of the young men. Sometime after midnight Hayes became ill and went outside. Early the next morning he was found frozen on the sand...
...idea of melting it and forcing it to the surface with steam, and it revolutionized the industry. I think Shepherd's process may do the same for uranium." ¶ Jeeps with scintillometers roamed the back-country roads along Texas' Cap Rock, an outcrop of red sand and limestone running from Big Spring north to Amarillo. The rumor: the entire 200-mile stretch was hot. Other promising uranium areas were being opened up just across the Oklahoma line above Wichita Falls, in the Hueco Mountains near El Paso and in Brewster County and San Saba...
Near one of the sand filters Shepherd got a surprise: his scintillator needle indicated high radioactivity. Shepherd scooped up some filter sand and shipped it off to the Atomic Energy Commission's office in Grand Junction, Colo. AEC reported that the sand contained up to 0.75% uranium, almost four times as rich as minimum commercial ore. The uranium, said AEC, was being deposited in the sand by water. But since sand is a poor concentrator, it was probably catching only about 20% of the uranium in the water...
Shepherd mixed some coal, a good uranium concentrator, with the sand in one of the oil-well filters. When he sent the filter coal to the Atomic Energy Commission after a few weeks, he got the report that it was several times as rich in uranium as the sand. Shepherd then took some shallow-core samples of the rock in one section of Nowata County and shipped them off to AEC. The assays showed a uranium content well above the lowest commercial grade...
...process before-and failed. But it has never been tried as a byproduct of another operation, such as oil producing, that already pays the basic costs. In any case, Shepherd has applied for a patent on his method and is getting ready to ship about ten tons of filter sand from his holdings to AEC for processing...