Talk:Uranium mining in New Mexico

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really helpful, or not[edit]

Are space consuming WikiProject panals all that helpful. If so why can't they be more efficiently contructed. Does anybody really pay attention to them if the first place. J.H.McDonnell (talk) 22:23, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Historic Only[edit]

Regarding the lower part in the section on the Grants Mineral Belt, the Atomic Engergy: Uranium Jackpot reference from 1957 is obsolete, only of historic relevance. The inititial statement, New Mexico's Ambrosia Lake is a misnamed patch of sunbaked, bone-dry limestone where miners have long thought they smelled uranium is so much nonsence. I known, I worked there in the 60s for Kee-McGee. The only limestone is on the Todildo bench , a strip along the soutnern edge of the basin. The Todildo underlies the more productive Morrison Fm of Ambrosia Lake, a broad plane below the Dacota and full of the conposit weed, ambrosia. As for "smelling" uranium, an imaginary olfactory talent, that takes special instrumentation.

The clusteringt of companies is apparently from Federal Circuits, 10th Cir (07 Sept 1960) , again of possible historic relevance. http://vlex.com/vid/homestake-oro-36680163. Simply tells who the actors were.

The facts regarding Louis Lothmann are coroborated in Geology and Technology of the Grants Uranium Region, Memoir 15, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 1963. a much better historical reference.

In conclusion, I suggest a separate section covering the early history of uranium exploration and mining in the district, or in New Mexico, preferably written so the reader won't have to jump here and there for complete explanations and with minimal dead end links (zero is fine) J.H.McDonnell (talk) 22:23, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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