Image:Charles Steen.jpg Charles A. Steen (b. 1919), was a student of geology who made a fortune after discovering a rich uranium deposit in Utah, sparking the "Uranium Rush" of the early 1950s. Charles A. Steen, Uranium King File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, the earth) and λογος (logos, word, reason)) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history and the processes that shape it. ... General Name, Symbol, Number uranium, U, 92 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery gray metallic; corrodes to a spalling black oxide coat in air Atomic mass 238. ... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 13th 219,887 km² 435 km 565 km 3. ... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ...

Steen was born in Caddo, Texas and attended high school in Houston. He went on to study at John Tarleton Agricultural College in Stepenville and in 1940 transferred to the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy at El Paso, receiving a B.A. degree in geology in 1943. Official language(s) None. ... Nickname: Space City Motto: Official website: http://www. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Downtown El Paso, Texas, looking south into Mexico from the US side. ... Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, the earth) and λογος (logos, word, reason)) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history and the processes that shape it. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ...

Ineligible for the draft because of his poor eyesight, Steen spent World War II working as a geologist in Bolivia and Peru. Returning to Texas in 1945, he married Minnie Lee ("M.L.") Holland. He started graduate school at the University of Chicago but after a year returned to Houston to take a job doing field work for the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. However, within two years he had been fired for insubordination and had trouble getting any jobs as a geologist anywhere in the oil industry. Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths World War II, also known as the Second World War (sometimes WW2 or WWII), was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The University of Chicago is a private research university located primarily in the Hyde Park neigborhood of Chicago, Illinois. ... Standard Oil was an oil refining organization founded by John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) and partners beginning in 1863. ... Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 38th 94,321 km² 225 km 435 km 1. ...

Down on his luck, Steen read an article in the December 1949 issue of The Engineering and Mining Journal which discussed how the United States federal government had issued incentives for prospectors to locate domestic supplies of uranium. As part of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, the Atomic Energy Commission had the authority to withdraw lands from the private sector in order to examine them as possible sites for uranium mining. During World War II, the Manhattan Project had received most of its uranium from foreign sources in Canada and the Belgian Congo. However, it had also received some from vanadium miners in the American Southwest, where uranium was often a by-product of mining (uranium was not, before the first use of the atomic bomb, seen as a terribly valuable metal). As the Soviet Union was reportedly seizing uranium mines in Czechoslovakia and East Germany at the beginning of the Cold War, and running them with slave labor consisting of political prisoners, there was an anxiety throughout the federal government that the United States would not have enough uranium for its budding nuclear weapons program. A domestic supply of uranium would enable the government to maintain a nuclear self-sufficiency, with control of all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle. 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1789 by a constitutional convention, sets down the basic framework of American government in its seven articles. ... General Name, Symbol, Number uranium, U, 92 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery gray metallic; corrodes to a spalling black oxide coat in air Atomic mass 238. ... Almost a year after World War II ended, Congress established the United States Atomic Energy Commission to foster and control the peace time development of atomic science and technology. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Almost a year after World War II ended, Congress established the United States Atomic Energy Commission to foster and control the peace time development of atomic science and technology. ... Control panels and operators for calutrons at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ... The Belgian Congo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between King Léopold IIs formal relinquishment of personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November, 1908, to the dawn of Congolese independence on 30 June, 1960. ... Vanadium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol V and atomic number 23. ... The Southwest region of the United States is drier than the adjoining Midwest in weather; the population is less dense and, with strong Spanish-American and Native American components, more ethnically varied than neighboring areas. ... National motto: none Official languages German Capital East Berlin Largest city East Berlin Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 106th 108,333 km² Negligible Creation -Unified 7 October 1949 3 October 1990 Currency East German mark Time zone  â€“ in summer CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2) National anthem Auferstanden aus Ruinen Internet... For the generic term for high-tension and / or indirect struggle between states, falling short of actual open hostilities, see cold war (war). ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ...

As part of this, in the late 1940s and early 1950s the Atomic Energy Commission also established itself as the only legal buyer of uranium in the U.S., and artificially manipulated prices to reflect their current uranium needs. By raising the price of uranium to far above almost any other metal, they created a massive incentive for amateur and professional prospectors in the Four Corners region to make large amounts of money off of new claims. The Four Corners region is in the red area on this map The Four Corners Monument, placed by the Interior Department at the exact point. ...

Despite the fact that his three sons: Johnny, born out of wedlock while Steen was in Honduras, Charles Jr., and Andy were all less than four-years-old, and his wife was expecting a fourth child, Steen borrowed $1,000 from his mother and headed for the Colorado Plateau, determined to strike it rich. The Colorado Plateau, also called the Colorado Plateaus Province, is a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. ...

Steen could not afford the standard equipment used by uranium prospectors - the Geiger counter, which could detect sources of radiation in ore. Instead, he used a secondhand diamond drill rig and his geologic training for his prospecting. At the time, each individual prospector had his own idiosyncratic theory on where to find uranium. The uranium industry was composed primarily of individual prospectors and geologists who would attempt to find a large claim and either mine it for themselves or mine it for a large company (such as Union Carbide) who would then transport the ore from the mine to the uranium mill where it could be converted into yellowcake. Steen's theory on uranium deposits was that they would collect in anticlinal structures in the same manner as would oil, which others on the Plateau dismissed as "Steen's Folly." Image:A Geiger counter. ... Radiation has a variety of different meanings. ... Union Carbide of South Charleston, West Virginia is a chemical manufacturer, now a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company. ... Powdered yellowcake in a drum Yellowcake (also known as urania and uranic oxide) is concentrated uranium oxide, obtained through the milling of uranium ore. ...

After Steen's fourth child was born, his family moved into a small trailer at Dove Creek, Colorado, and then later into a tarpaper shack near Cisco, Utah. Steen fed his family on poached venison and cereal, milk was subsituted with sugar water and tea (milk was too expensive) in a highly marginalized state of existence, for two years. But on July 6, 1952, Steen hit it big, finding a massive, relatively highly-enriched uranium deposit in the Big Indian Wash of Lisbon Valley, southeast of Moab, Utah. He named it the "Mi Vida" mine (My Life), and it was the first big strike of the uranium boom. Steen made millions off his claims, and provoked a "Uranium Rush" of prospectors into the Four Corners region, similar to the Gold Rush of the 1850s in California. Dove Creek is a town located in Dolores County, Colorado. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a [[leap year starting on Tueday] (link will take you to calendar). ... Moab is a city located in Grand County, Utah. ... A California Gold Rush handbill A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ...

In Moab, Steen built a $250,000 hilltop mansion to replace his tarpaper shack, with a swimming pool, greenhouse, and servants' quarters. He formed a number of companies to continue his uranium work, including the Utex Exploration Company, the Moab Drilling Company, the Mi Vida Company, Big Indian Mines, Inc., and later the Uranium Reduction Company. He made his money well known, inviting the entire population of Moab to annual parties in a local airpor hangar, having his original worn prospecting boots bronzed, and flying to Salt Lake City in his private plane for weekly rhumba lessons. He donated $50,000 towards a new hospital in Moab and gave land for churches and schools. The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Salt Lake Citys top tourist draw. ... Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the slave trade to Cuba and the New World. ...

Steen was elected to the Utah State Senate in 1958, but quickly became disillusioned with politics. He resigned from office in 1961 and moved to a ranch near Reno, Nevada, building a 27,000 square foot (2,500 m²) mansion near the residence of the Comstock millionair miner, Sandy Bowers. He sold the Utex Exploration Company and the Uranium Reduction Company in 1962. By the late 1950s, the U.S. government had enough uranium for its needs and had stopped supporting high prices of the ore, killing the market by 1960. Steen attempted to diversify his interests by investing in Arabian horse breeding, a marble quarry, an airplane factory, a pickle plant, and real estate. He met with financial losses and misfortune. In 1968 he declared bancruptcy after the Internal Revenue Service seized his assets to pay for back taxes. In 1971 he suffered a severe head injury working on a copper prospect. 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... City nickname: The Biggest Little City in the World Founded May 13, 1868 County Washoe County Mayor Bob Cashell Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 179. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Seal of the Internal Revenue Service The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is an agency that collects taxes. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...

Currently suffering from Alzheimer's, Steen now lives in Longmont, Colorado. His wife died in 1997. His youngest son Mark now controlls what is left of the estate after lying to the courts, While ML was still alive grandchildren wanted to visit and were not allowed to due to Mark being in controll and threatening to only allow cat food to be eaten if they were to come to the house, The Steen story is not a happy one but of how money can distroy a family. Mark has now cut ailing Charlie off from the rest of his family limiting contact to only himself and his daughter Ashley (Who was concieved only after older brothers with children made a joke that they had namesakes). Charlie also has greatgrandchildren and a total of 6 grandchildren. Life goes on. Alzheimers disease (AD) or senile dementia of Alzheimers type is a neurodegenerative disease which results in a loss of mental functions due to the deterioration of brain tissue. ... Longmont is a city located in Boulder County, Colorado. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...