AEC & Chenoweth Collection ➔ Navajo Indian Reservation, Uranium, Mines
Historical artifact -- Legal documents;List
Identifier:
1992.102.1Description
Folder 1
#1) Exhibit CS-1 Navajo Indian Reservation uranium by P.L. Merritt Captain, Corp. of Engineers
#2) Exhibit CS-2 Report on the Lease of the Radium ores Company on the Northern Navajo indian Reservation by B.W. Dyer
#3 Exhibit CS-3 Bids on carnotite mineral lease sale from Navajo Service Window Rock, Arizona (5 jan 1942)
#4) Exhibit CS-4 From Dept. of Interior, Washington to Catherine M. Carraw, assignment to U.S. vanadium have been approved
#5) Exhibit CS-7 Letter to H.I. Smith, Chief Mining Division Carlsbad, New Mexico about sampling method on royalty report of vanadium corporation (24 mar 1944)
#6) Exhibit CS-24 Dept of Interior To: Allan G. Harper regarding the recovery of royalty for uranium extracted from Navajo ore. (26 jul 1950)
#7) Exhibit CS-25 Letter To: Allan Harper about Navajo ore mined in 1943 (28 Jun 1950)
#8) Exhibit CS-26 Larkin Memorandum: Navajo ore milled at Durango
#9) Exhibit CS-27 To: Chester Shade - Reconstruction Finance Corp. Navajo ore intermingled with other ore. (13 Sept 1949
#10) Exhibit CS-28 R.H. Allport Memorandum: Re: Vanadium lease report
#11) Exhibit CS-30 Letter to John McGue Dept of Interior recovered uranium from ore mined under its Navajo leases.
#12) Exhibit CS-31 Interior memorandum: History of uranium-bearing carnotite ore of the Navajo Reservation
#13) Exhibit CS-32 Newspaper Navajos Have Chance of Riches (25 Sep 1948)
#14) Exhibit CS-33 Letter to James Steward Miner camplain only vanadium corp. Of America can obtain mining leases on Reservation (21 Sept 1948)
#15) Exhibit CS-34 Memorandum: for H.L. Smith about production of vanadium leases
#16) Exhibit CS-35 Letter from Dept of Interior Carlsbad, New Mexico about regarding the production of uranium on Indian Land.
Folder 2
#17) Geology and mineral liaising and mining on the Navajo Indian Reservation 1920-1946 Docket Numbers 69 & 299 for the United States Department of Justice (1 Oct 1982) by Dr. Richard DeVoto and Dr. Gary C. Huber
Folder 3
#18) A list of uranium mines in Mesa County Colorado Compiled by William L. Chenoweth
Content Date:
1920 – 1990Rights:
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AEC & Chenoweth CollectionCreation of this resource was supported in part by an award from the Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), National Archives Records Administration.
William Chenoweth’s geologic career began in 1953, when he received hi...
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