Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Temple Mountain; Consolidated Uranium Mines; Uranium
Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc. Pictoral Report to Shareholders on Temple Mountain Mining Operations. Emery County, Utah -- January 15, 1953. Page 1: A.E. C. unit 1 showing cable to rig drilling air holes resulting in 3 ft. diameter cores. Shaft...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc.
Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc. Pictoral Report to Shareholders on Temple Mountain Mining Operations. Emery County, Utah -- January 15, 1953. Page 29: Underground A.E.C. No. 2 A working unit ore face where men are standing and slusher bucket...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Temple Mountain; Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc.
Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc. Pictoral Report to Shareholders on Temple Mountain Mining Operations. Emery County, Utah -- January 15, 1953. Page 7: Collar of Marchbank unit incline shaft, in foreground showing hoist and ore stockpile (black) on...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Temple Mountain; Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc.
Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc. Pictoral Report to Shareholders on Temple Mountain Mining Operations. Emery County, Utah -- January 15, 1953. Page 10: Underground A.E.C. working unit 8 showing diesel driven shuttle car dumping ore into storage...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Temple Mountain; Wheeler, Marion
Marion Wheeler mined at Temple Mountain during the Uranium Boom in 1955. This photograph is from his collection and reads, "Gill and Isabelle at Temple Mountain." Gill and Isabelle are in many of his photographs. Here they are sitting on a drill...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Wheeler, Marion
Marion Wheeler mined at Temple Mountain in 1955. He is standing at the Calex Hole, which is the shaft drilled vertically to allow the air movement into the mine as well as to take miners into and out of the mine. He wrote, "The shaft went down 80...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; MK Tunnels; Cold War; Morrison Knudsen
In 1948 the Federal Government sent some military officials to the San Rafael Swell to build a series of tunnels over a 300 acre area. Morrison Knudsen Corporation (MK) won the construction contract to blast the tunnels in the solid rock. It was a...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Cabin, Broken Cross
Joe Swasey and sons along with the Nordell brothers (Nordells tie into Swaseys by marriage) built this cabin in 1921 on the San Rafael Swell at the Head of Sinbad, near the "Cliffdweller" cave. The rock formation standing behind the cabin is known...