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[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0751]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A key item in the Shiprock uranium processing plant is this huge rod mill which crushes the raw ore into a fine grey powder for treatment with acid."
Date: June 20, 1955
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0754]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the few pieces of mechanized mine equipment, a compressed air loader, is used by a Navajo to load the precious uranium ore into an ore car."
Date: June 20, 1955
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0765]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The inside of the Shiprock plant is a maze of conveyor belts and machinery designed to squeeze the precious uranium oxide out the ore as it comes from the mines."
Date: 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0766]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gen Woodward, plant metallurgist, and Tom Seale, Kermac vice-president, take a look at the tanks where the last solids are removed from the solution."
Date: June 20, 1955
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0370.0445]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here Specialist Third Class Howard Leonard, a Navajo Indian from Shiprock N. M. sees that Charlie is securely fastened to his place of honor stop the company guidon."
Date: 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0752]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is what the Shiprock mill does: It takes ore equivalent to that in this pile to produce one 250-pound drum of uranium oxide such as Ed Ritchey displays. The ore pile would weigh out about 50 tons."
Date: June 20, 1955
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0764]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Thickener tanks, where uranium-bearing ore in acid solution is clarified, are in the foreground of this picture taken at Shiprock, New Mexico, uranium concentrator mill of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc."
Date: June 28, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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