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D.W. Viles with a miner drilling underground

Colorado Digitization Project
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National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
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Vanadium Corporation of America
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1950?-1959?
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Viles, Dennis Ward
 Vanadium Corporation of America
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 Mining
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 Scenes, underground
 Underground mining
 Uranium mines and mining
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Photograph of Dennis Ward Viles with a miner drilling for carnotite ore in the underground tunnel at the Monument #2 Mine north of Kayenta, Arizona. Viles was the Vice President of the Vanadium Corporation of America (V.C.A.), which owned the mine and had contracts to supply the Atomic Energy Commission with uranium. This mine was one of the largest producers of carnotite ore during the uranium boom of the 1950s, and the ore was trucked to the V.C.A. Durango Uranium-Vanadium Processing Plant where uranium concentrate (yellow cake) and vanadium concentrate (red cake) were extracted from it.
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