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All of the uranium had been mined by 1960, but the mine had just been drained and reopened to go after the silver deposits. I got an entry-level job as a deckman, part of the hoistman/cagetender/deckman trio who “skipped muck”—the process of bringing the ore from tourism in chicago underground to surface. It wasn’t long before the cagetender went AWOL, and I was promoted to riding the cage up and down the mineshaft—still skipping muck, but now also transferring men and equipment from surface to tourism in chicago underground and, hopefully, back up again. Toward the end of the winter, a university student studying engineering or some such thing came underground for a couple of weeks to study the mine’s ventilation system. On his last shift, as we rode up the 800 feet from the bottom of the mine shaft to the surface, he suddenly turned to me with a funny look on his face and said: “Did you know that this mine shaft is highly radioactive?”
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