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Introduction/ Scope and contents
Years this material was created: 1959-1983 (bulk years: 1970-1988)
Quantity: 14 linear shelf feet (in 26 document cases, plus 2 folders in oversize flat file case drawer 3:38)
This is a collection of materials regarding uranium mining, compiled and/or created by Langan Swent (1916-1992). Some of these records relate to the Homestake Mining Company (Golden, Colorado). These records include public relations publications on the history of Homestake Mining Company, employee handbooks, and company financial statements. A large portion of this collection pertains to issues of health and safety in underground mines. The health and safety issues include morbidity and mortality studies of underground miners and their incident of cancer or other illnesses associated with long term exposure to radiation. Employees of Homestake Mining Company were the primary subjects in these studies. Also included are the rules proposed in the 1980's by OSHA and MSHA for limiting exposure to radiation and asbestos and the mining industry's response to these proposed rules. Approximately one third of this collection consists of print materials related to uranium mining and energy issues. These materials include publications from the Atomic Energy Commission, annual reports from the states of Colorado and New Mexico on the annual inspection of mines, presentations from the Second International Mine Ventilation Congress in November 1979, and numerous other articles and reports printed between 1931 and 1990.
Access terms:
Homestake Mining Co.
Mines and mineral resources--Four Corners
Uranium mines and mining--Colorado--Colorado Plateau
Administrative information
Acquisition of this collection:
These materials were donated by the generous
gift of Mrs. Langan W. (Eleanor H.)
Swent in November of 2005 (accession
number 2006:038.001). The Southwest Accessions Committee approved the
acquisition that same month.
(The photo below shows the collection prior to processing.)
About the organization of this collection: The series and boxes are numbered consecutively. Because we do not expect to add to this collection, the boxes are numbered in one single numbering scheme starting with 1.
Processing information: This collection was arranged and described by Assistant Fort Lewis College Archivist Diana Novara in the summer of 2006, through gracious funding from the donor of this collection. The inventory was prepared by Novara and Fort Lewis College archivist Todd Ellison in August, 2006. Seven telephone directories of Grants - Anaconda - Bluewater - Milan - San Rafael, New Mexico, 1957-1965, were placed in the Southwest telephone directories collection at the Center.
A related collection not at the Southwest Studies Center: In his capacity as Vice President for Environmental, Health and Safety, and Governmental Affairs for Homestake Mining, Mr. Swent traveled to Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Canada, South Africa, etc., to obtain information on health and safety in uranium mines. Most of the materials on that phase of his career were acquired by Dr. Douglas Chambers, Senes Consultants, Ltd., 121 Granton Drive, Unit 12, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada UB3N4 Telephone: (416) 764-9380.
Related collections at the Center of Southwest Studies (listed alphabetically by title, which is preceded by the collection number):
I 094: Airborne gamma-ray spectrometer and magnetometer survey, Cortez Quad (Colo. and Utah) final report on microfiche (75 microfiche). Report of a study conducted for the U.S. Department of Energy, Grand Junction office, under Bendix Field Engineering Corporation, Grand Junction Operations subcontract no. 78-179-L, project no. 40-78-4131, circa 1979.
M 004 and I 046: American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company records (1.5 document cases and 7 rolls of microfilm). Records pertaining to Colorado mines and mining, 1901-1957.
I 073: Atomic bomb development records (RG 77) on microfilm (14 rolls of microfilm). Harrison-Bundy files relating to the development of the atomic bomb, 1942-1946 (M1108, 9 rolls), and correspondence ("Top Secret") of the Manhattan Engineer District, 1942-1946 (M1109, 5 rolls).
P 032: Colorado mining towns slide transparencies (approximately 500 slides). Oversize color slide transparencies of former mining scenes and towns of Colorado, especially on the Western Slope, 1960-1989. Arranged alphabetically by place name.
M 008: Durango (Colo.) uranium mill tailings removal collection (5.5 document cases). Publicity materials, engineering/environmental assessment reports, Task Force records, etc., 1960-1990, regarding the removal of radioactive tailings from the Durango mill site at the base of Smelter Mountain in the 1980s.
M 060: Four Corners Environmental Research Institute (FOCERI) collection (6 document cases + 12 records boxes). Minutes, correspondence and memos, financial records, maps, project records, and engineering/environmental assessment reports re: various projects in the Four Corners region, including the Durango uranium mill tailings site, La Plata County coal mining, Colorado River tributaries, electric transmission power lines in southern and southwestern Colorado, and other topics researched by FOCERI.
M 223: Page L. Edwards papers (4 boxes). From the late 1950s through the early 1970s Mr. Edwards was a geological engineer at the Vanadium Corp. of America (VCA) plant in Durango and was the General Manager of the VCA plant in Shiprock, New Mexico.
I 096: Southwest Geological Studies reports, on 23 microfiche. Includes reports on modes of uranium occurrences in Colorado Front Range by Robert H. Carpenter; detailed uranium hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance of the Tallahassee Creek...in the northwestern part of the Pueblo Nims Quad, Colo., by Spencer S. Shannon, Jr.; hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance of nure by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; engineering assessment of inactive uranium mill tailings, Durango site; geology...of the...Needle Mountains, SW Colorado…
F 004: Southwest mining artifacts. Includes a framed photo with uranium samples in vials from the plant at Naturita, Colorado, and a piece of petrified wood with uranium dust on it. Contact the curator regarding these and any other artifacts.
I 093: Toxic release inventory reports for Colorado (92 microfiche). Includes introduction, chemical substance index, facility name index and other indexes, and toxic release inventory reports for Colorado, 1987-1988.
M 187: Union Carbide Western U.S. 20th century mining collection (287 linear shelf feet). Mining company operation records regarding the mining and processing of uranium, tungsten, vanadium and other base metals in the Western U.S., esp. the Four Corners region. 1920-1990.
M 007: Uranium mining collection (3 document cases). Newspaper clippings, articles, and other printed materials and photographs concerning various mills relating to the uranium rush on the Colorado Plateau, 1940-1958; donated by Denny W. Viles, Vice President of the Vanadium Corporation of America, and other sources.
See also this online resource at the Southwest Studies Center's website: Surface Mining Regulation and Reclamation: Bibliography and Abstracts of Research Reports, completed 1978 and 1998.
Langan W. Swent was born November 27, 1916, in Oakland, California, and was married to Eleanor Herz of Lead, South Dakota in 1947. They had four children. Mr. Swent graduated from Stanford University in 1938, where he was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Tau Beta Pi. He was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in mining engineering, 1939-40 and at the Harvard University Geology Department, 1940-41. He served in active duty in the U.S. Naval Reserve, 1941-1945, mostly in amphibious forces in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and southern France. He commanded landing craft and was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation, and also the Legion of Merit medal for action during Anzio beachhead operations. He retired as a Lieutenant Commander.
Employment:
Other activities:
Note
regarding the organization of this collection:
Materials in this collection are arranged by series.
The series are numbered consecutively.
Because we do not expect to add to this collection, the boxes are numbered
in one single numbering scheme starting with 1.
Folder numbers start with 1 in each box.
Items within each series (e.g., correspondence, reports) and within
each folder are arranged chronologically, unless noted otherwise.
The series are organized from highest hierarchical level
to lowest; from most general to most specific.
Series
Subseries 1, Homestake Mining Company, 1947-1986
Subseries 2, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1963-1965
Subseries 3, American Mining Congress, 1972
Subseries 4, Colorado Division of Mines, 1966-1979
Subseries 5, New Mexico State Inspector of Mines, 1964 -1977
Subseries 6, New Mexico Mining Association, 1960-1966
Subseries 7, Second International Mine Ventilation Congress, 1979
Subseries 8, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, 1979-1984
Subseries 9, Printed materials related to uranium mining and energy issues, 1931-1991
Series
Subseries 1, U.S. Transuranium/Uranium registries, 1983-1993
Subseries 2, Radon daughters, 1977-1982
Subseries 3, BEIR III report, 1979-1980
Subseries 4, BEIR IV Alpha Committee, 1985-1986
Subseries 5, Underground Mines Advisory Committee, 1968
Subseries 6, Uranium mining studies in France, 1966-1971
Subseries 7, Gillam study of Homestake underground miners, 1969-1984
Subseries 8, OSHA proposed asbestos standards, 1975-1977
Subseries 9, MSHA proposed ionizing radiation standards, 1984-1988
Subseries 10, NIOSH report on risk of lung cancer to underground uranium miners, 1983-1986
Subseries 11, Bureau of Mines dust assessment at Homestake Gold Mine, 1960-1981
Subseries 12, NIOSH morbidity and mortality study of underground mine workers at Homestake and Reserve Mining Co., 1972-1991
Subseries 13, Robert F. Bell, M.D., morbidity and mortality study of underground mine workers at Homestake Mining Co., 1981-1983
Subseries 14, McDonald morbidity and mortality study, 1973-1981
Series
Subseries 1, Swent resumes and biographies, 1960-1979
Subseries 2, Homestake Mining Co. directors' and officers' questionnaires and stock disclosures, 1962-1984
Subseries 3, Homestake Mining Co. job description for Vice President of Engineering, 1970
Subseries 4, Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1945
Subseries 5, Swent papers and presentations, 1968-1985
Subseries 6, Swent general correspondence, 1968-1991
Series
Note: the records in Series 4 are closed until 2053 (for Subseries 1) and
2061 (for Subseries 2). They are confidential due
to the presence of Social Security Numbers.
Subseries 1, Homestake employee personnel records, 1910-1981
Subseries 2, Homestake Mining Co. employee records for use in morbidity and mortality studies, 1980-1989
Series
Series
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Series 1: A (in box 1)
| Box | Series | Folder | Folder title | Date |
| 1 | 1.1 | 1 | The Homestake Enterprise – in the Black Hills of South Dakota, by Guy Norman Bjorga | 1947 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 2 | Homestake: A South Dakota Enterprise | 1948-09-01 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 3 | Sharp Bits, newsletter | 1953-06 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 4 | Homestake Mining Company: actual and average number of employees. by department | 1953/74 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 5 | The Story of Homestake: A South Dakota Enterprise | 1954 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 6 | The Homestake Mine, estimated ore | 1955-01-01 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 7 | Sharp Bits, newsletter | 1955-01/02/07 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 8 | Your Job with Homestake, handbook for employees | 1955/11 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 9 | Homestake Mining Company, 750 TPD carbonate leach plant summary of direct and indirect costs | 1956/10/22 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 10 | Homestake Sabre-Pinon, proposal, records, and correspondence related to uranium mill in Grants, NM | 1956/1957 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 11 | Homestake Sabre-Pinon, correspondence with Santa Fe Railroad re: ore supplies | 1957/01/25 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 12 | Ambrosia Lake Mining District Homestake Sabre Partners Grants, N.M., map | Undated |
| 1 | 1.1 | 13 | Homestake-New Mexico Partners, report on geology, mining, and metallurgy of uranium ores in Ambrosia Lake District McKinley County, NM tributary to Homestake-New Mexico Partners Mill | 1957/02/18 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 14 | Homestake Sabre-Pinon Partners, report on geology, mining, and metallurgy of uranium in Ambrosia Lake area, New Mexico | 1957/02/18 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 15 | Sharp Bits, newsletter | 1957/11 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 16 | Sharp Bits, newsletter | 1958/05 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 17 | My Job with Homestake – New Mexico, handbook for employees | 1961/01 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 18 | Homestake – New Mexico Partners, quarterly report of operations | 1961-07-01/1961-09-30 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 19 | Homestake – New Mexico Partners, financial statements | 1961-09-28/1961-11-8 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 20 | My Job with Homestake, handbook for employees Utah operations | 1961-10 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 1 | Homestake Mining Company, comparative financial statements | 1965-12-31 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 2 | The Homestake Story: A South Dakota Enterprise | 1966 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 3 | Homestake Mining Company, geologic evaluation of the Orphan Uranium deposit Coconino County, Arizona by Paul E. Melancon | 1966-03-01 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 4 | Homestake – Sapin Partners Grants, NM, maintenance program mine and mill industrial engineering project #IEG-1 | 1966-06-01 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 5 | My Job with Homestake – Sapin Partners, handbook for employees | 1966-09 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 6 | United Nuclear – Homestake Partners, Uranium Milling Operations Grants, NM, print material | 1971 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 7 | Homestake: A Black Hills Gold Mining Enterprise since 1876, newspaper | 1973 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 8 | Homestake Mining Co., employee benefits salaried personnel | 1974-12 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 9 | Mine Fire – Homestake Mine, mine department report and correspondence | 1975-05-09 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 10 | Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration, Mine Fire – Homestead Mine final report and letter | 1975-05/12 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 11 | Mine Fire – Homestake Mine, report by Joel K. Waterland | 1975-07-31 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 12 | Homestake Mining Company, management seminar on corporate disclosure and insider trading | 1975-11-11 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 13 | Homestake Veterans Association, constitution and bylaws | 1977-05 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 14 | Homestake Mining Company Mine Dept., board of director’s meeting | 1978-09-8 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 15 | Colorful Creede Colorado – 1890’s: Now Site of Homestake’s Bulldog Mountain Silver Mine | circa 1980 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 16 | Homestake Mining Company, employee benefits | 1981-01 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 17 | Homestake Mining Company, letter of transmittal re: Deep Level Mine-Life Review executive summary | 1982-05-05 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 18 | United Nuclear Corporation and Homestake Mining Co. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Wm. D. Ruckelshaus, on petition for review of standards of the U.S.E.P.A. | 1984-10-15 |
| 2 | 1.1 | 19 | Homestake Mine on the Level, newsletter | 1986-04 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 1 | Fallout from Nuclear Tests, by C. L. Comar | 1963-06 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 2 | Atoms in Agriculture Applications of Nuclear Science to Agricultures, by Thomas S. Osborne | 1963-10 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 3 | Careers in Atomic Energy Planning for Scientific and Technical Professions, by Loyce J. McIlhenny | 1963-10 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 4 | Nuclear Reactors, by John F. Hogerton | 1964-01 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 5 | Nuclear Terms: A Brief Glossary, compiled by James D. Lyman, edited by James D. Lyman and Benjamin S. Loeb | 1964-04 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 6 | Atomic Power Safety, by John F. Hogerton | 1964-06 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 7 | Nuclear Power and Merchant Shipping, by Warren H. Donnelly | 1964-06 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 8 | Power from Radioscopes, by Robert L. Mead and William R. Corliss | 1964-06 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 9 | Power Reactors in Small Packages, by William R. Corliss | 1964-06 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 10 | The Creative Scientist: His Training and His Role, by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg | 1964-06 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 11 | Whole Body Counters, by John H. Woodburn and Frederick W. Lengemann | 1964-08 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 12 | Atoms at the Science Fair Exhibiting Nuclear Projects, by Robert G. LeCompte and Burrell L. Wood | 1964-09 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 13 | Popular Books on Nuclear Science, compiled by John Sherrod | 1964-09 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 14 |
