Underground and Radioactive: Adventures of a Uranium Miner in 1970s New Mexico

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Somewhere in the recesses of my mind has lingered the thought, however farfetched, that maybe, someday, somehow, some way, I could do it all again. That, perchance, the call would go out for experienced though older, much older, former miners. The time has come to acknowledge the personal collection of mining experiences and anecdotes I have been harboring for many years now will be expanding no further, and should be shared.

I suppose for some, who spend the bulk of their working lives moving from one mining boomtown to another, there is nothing especially unique about that life but, unbeknownst to me at the time, my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was to live and work in one such place in New Mexico, then known as the “Uranium Capital of the World.”

Though decades have passed since I last set foot in a uranium mine, not many days go by that I don’t miss both working underground and living in a boomtown. It was an exciting time to have lived through and left an indelible imprint on many of us who experienced it.

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