| Will the Wyoming Uranium Province Rival Canada's | | | | Harris. |
| Athabasca or Australia's Northern Territories? | | | | Once the chief metals geologist for Burlington |
| "Geology is 90 percent terminology and 10 percent | | | | Northern, which acquired Santa Fe Pacific and then |
| science," laughed Ray E. Harris, one of Wyoming's | | | | spun off Santa Fe Gold (later acquired by Newmont |
| leading geological theoreticians, having been with the | | | | Mining), Ray Harris wrote voluminously and spoke |
| Wyoming Geological Survey since 1982. He died on | | | | passionately about uranium mining. Wyoming legislator |
| March 7th. Two weeks earlier, we met with and | | | | and president of Strathmore Minerals, David Miller, |
| interviewed Mr. Harris. Everyone we met in Wyoming, | | | | introduced us to Ray Harris. Miller recently wrote in an |
| and who was interested in uranium mining, had, at | | | | email about Ray Harris, upon notifying us of his |
| one time or another, passed through his office, which | | | | death, "He was an advocate for diversifying |
| was adjacent to the University of Wyoming in | | | | Wyoming's economy with the production of industrial |
| Laramie. | | | | minerals and uranium. He will be sorely missed." |
| Terrence Osier of Strathmore Minerals was a | | | | Ray Harris traveled the world, investigating and |
| frequent visitor to his corner office on the third floor. | | | | studying uranium deposits. He was well versed on the |
| Norman Burmeister of Kilgore Minerals had met with | | | | geology of every significant uranium deposit on earth |
| Ray Harris the day before our meeting. When we | | | | and was also involved in the exploration, |
| announced an upcoming interview with William (Bill) | | | | development and mining of uranium. In a Geological |
| Boberg of UR-Energy to discuss his premise that | | | | Survey of Wyoming Public Information Circular, |
| Central Wyoming was, on its own merits, a uranium | | | | published in 1986, Ray Harris presented a unique, and |
| province, Ray politely told us to say hello to Bill. | | | | possibly controversial, thesis, "The genesis of uranium |
| Anyone exploring for, or developing, uranium assets | | | | deposits in Athabasca, Canada and Northern Australia |
| in Wyoming were on a first-name basis with Ray | | | | |