News release regarding uranium use, 1943 January 26

File — Box: 1 - Peg-Leg, Folder: 11

Staff Only

From the Collection:

This collection contains an assortment of materials including pictures, letters, news reports, maps, a manuscript, directors reoprts, mine reports, and comercial mining pamphlets. These items provide information about John "Peg-Leg" Foster and the mining industry in Colorado, Utah, California, Arizona circa 1900-1960.

Dates

Creation: 1943 January 26

Access to the collection

Open for research in Tomlinson Library Special Collections and Archives. Please make an appointment at archives@coloradomesa.edu to ensure staff availability.

Extent

From the Collection: .5 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

This news release relays the ban on delivering uranium and its compounds for use in ceramics. M-285 forbids the sale, delivery, and purchase of uranium in glass, pottery, tile, and other ceramic products due to “increasingly important war.”