Word: valley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jordan River Valley in Palestine, where the desert could be made to bloom, might be a good example. A survey would be made, a plan outlined, and then industry, agriculture and labor would be put to work to bring the plan about...
...long ago as 1900, according to Shimkin, the Russians began looking for radioactive minerals. The best find was at Tyuya Muyun in the Fergana Valley of Central Asia, 200 miles east of Tashkent -where a mine was opened in 1908. By the end of 1913, it had produced 1,044 tons of ore containing vanadium, copper and about .82% of uranium. At 26 pounds of U-235 per atom bomb (a current guess), this early production could have yielded theoretically enough "fissionable material" for four bombs. The Tyuya Muyun mine was still producing in 1936, when it (and some radioactive...
...Fergana Valley is rather like the carnotite of Colorado, a complex uranium-vanadium mineral. It is found in veins, some of them almost five feet thick. By 1933, the uranium content in the run-of-the-mine ore had risen...
Apparently the Fergana Valley is shot through & through with uranium deposits of various kinds. In 1923, V. I. Popov reported one at Uigar-sai that he said compared favorably to "many carnotite sites in the U.S.A." In 1928, intense radioactivity was reported at the western end of the valley...
None of the geological literature quoted by Shimkin is later than 1944. What the Russians may have found by frantic searching since that time, Shimkin does not guess. But he believes that the uranium deposits found before the war in the Fergana Valley alone "appear to provide a possible basis for the development of atomic power in that region...