• Patricio "Paddy" Martinez (1881– August 26, 1969) was an American prospector and shepherd who discovered uranium at Haystack Mesa in the San Juan Basin...
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    Heritage Museum. Perhaps the town's most memorable boom occurred when Paddy Martinez, a Navajo shepherd, discovered uranium ore near Haystack Mesa, sparking...
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    since 2012, Pimblett is a former Cage Warriors Featherweight Champion. Paddy Pimblett was born on 3 January 1995 and grew up in Huyton, Merseyside. He...
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    population of Moab grew from 1,200 to 6,500. In 1950, Navajo rancher Paddy Martinez discovered uranium ore near Grants, New Mexico. The small village of...
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  • unincorporated community in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. Paddy Martinez, the Navajo American man who discovered high grade uranium ore that...
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  • uranium for nuclear power, 1950s discovery of uranium by Navajo shepherd Paddy Martinez, falsely attributed to luck and not knowledge. The book concludes with...
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    uranium producer since the discovery of uranium by Navajo sheepherder Paddy Martinez in 1950. Uranium in New Mexico is almost all in the Grants mineral belt...
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    would be located at the ranch nine years later, on December 15, 1977. Paddy Martinez, 88, Navajo American shepherd who discovered a source of uranium ore...
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    Southwest. Charles Steen made a significant discover near Moab, Utah, while Paddy Martinez made another near Grants, New Mexico. However, by the 1960s, the United...
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    Guggenheim, Herbert Hoover, James M. Hyde, Ed Schieffelin, Harrison Schmitt, Paddy Martinez, Horace Tabor, Fred Chester Bond and Edmund J. Longyear, founder of...
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