Eldorado : : Canada's National Uranium Company /

Eldorado : : Canada's National Uranium Company / / Robert Bothwell.

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On 16 May 1930, Gilbert LaBine ddiscovered pitchblende near the shores of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. This is the story of Eldorado and the mine whose discovery marked the beginning of Canada's uranium industry. Robert Bothwell tells how Gilbert and Charlie LaBine, veteran Can...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Bothwell, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1984
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (470 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • 1. The Canadian Shield
  • 2. Northern Lights
  • Interlude: The Powers of the Atom
  • 3. From Radium to Uranium
  • 4. Private into Public
  • Interlude: War into Cold War
  • 5. The Shadow of War
  • 6. Mines and Money
  • Interlude: Searching for Security
  • 7. Stoking a Boom: The Search for a Just Price
  • 8. Beaverlodge and the Boom
  • 9. Beaverlodge and the Boom: II
  • 10. Getting There Is Half the Fun
  • Interlude: Atoms for Peace
  • 11. The Politics of Peace
  • 12. Too Little, Too Soon
  • Notes
  • Index

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