In 1958 she remarried and built a filling station next to her house. Uranium was a completely new business. People did not know much about it, but were eager to learn. Uranium is not found in a pure form in nature. Ore deposits have concentrations of about 0.1 percent.
Usable uranium is even a smaller fraction.
For security reasons, the AEC offered a guaranteed price to United States' uranium producers until the mid-1960s. The Arab oil embargo and new nuclear power plants produced a surge in uranium prices. Because of low uranium prices, the early 1970s were hardly boom years in Jeffrey City. From 1970 to 1975, there was no clear mining pattern. Jeffrey City had a bank and a credit union.