uranium mines and mining

"Explore the causes and consequences of the Church Rock, New Mexico uranium mine disaster of 1979"--Provided by publisher.

Explores all facets of uranium as a natural resource in North America, investigating its natural history, human use, technology, environmental impact, and economic significance.

In the early 1950s, eleven-year-old Dal accompanies his stepfather Mr. Sabatini on a business trip to a rural community in Idaho, where Dal makes new friends and becomes involved in a scheme involving a uranium mine.

Award-winning journalist Judy Pasternak uncovers the scandal involving America's mining for uranium on Navajo reservations that began in the 1940s and continued into the twenty-first century. Describes how unprotected Native Americans were used as laborers despite health warnings, and how the radioactive "yellow dirt" contaminated the air, water, and soil nearby. Examines the deaths related to the uranium and the Native Americans' fight for justice.

Young widow Jean Waterman finds friendship, love, and hope for the future when she leaves Ohio in 1954 and heads to Idaho with her two children, looking to strike it rich in uranium mining, and to give her chronically ill son a chance at adventure.

Alexander MacDonald, one of the MacDonald clan that has lived in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia since 1779 when Calum MacDonald, his wife, twelve children, and dog landed in Canada, remains dedicated to the memory of Scotland and his grandmother's admonition to "always look after your blood.".