Word: haystack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Government to come and give him $10,000. He didn't get it; the big bonus is offered only to those who find a deposit of high-grade ore, such as pitchblende. But his discovery, made at the 7,000-foot level on a huge, reddish mesa called Haystack Mountain (only 100 miles from the Los Alamos atomic project), set off a uranium rush which took Grants the way Grant took Richmond...