Saunders, R. D.

Underground and radioactive : adventures of a uranium miner in 1970s New Mexico R.D. Saunders - Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2017 - viii, 210 pages 24 cm

Includes index

"This memoir recounts the author's adventures and misadventures working underground in 1970s New Mexico, "Uranium Capital of the World." Descriptions of tools, methods and hazards of uranium mining, with character sketches and anecdotes, provide a glimpse of a bygone way of life--drilling, blasting and mucking the sandstone of the Grants mineral belt in the San Juan Basin"--

9781476669960 1476669961

2017018382


Saunders, R. D. 1951-


Uranium miners--New Mexico--Biography.
Uranium mines and mining--New Mexico.

HD8039.U72 / U673 2017

622.34932092 Sau B 45