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Show Steen Reports Uranium Find In Southeast Utah, AP Says A Reno, Nevada Associated Associat-ed Press article this week stated that Charles Steen, the rags to riches uranium iprosVctar who made his fortune for-tune at the Mi Vida mine south south of hero, was ba:;k in this area prospecting pros-pecting for more of the iprecious mineral, and tha. Steen had found another group of claims that he believed be-lieved to Ik as valuable as the. ones that took him from poverty to millionaire statu? in one easy lesson. ' According to the article, Steen reported filing 350 new claims last week in south-cast south-cast Utah and the Colorado Plateau. lie also stated that he would be returning to the area this week to start dieting. die-ting. For the past two years Steen has been fighting bankruptcy bank-ruptcy charges tint will cost him about $1.8 million in back taxes and an additional addition-al $G million in bad debts. These claims against his once-vast fortune are the result re-sult of non-mining business ventures that Steen terms losers. They left him wHb assets worth a claimed $19 million but no cash. Steen said that he had used us-ed a variety of disguises during du-ring his throe weeks of prospecting in the area and that his three sons had accompanied ac-companied him during that time. He also said that there was little difference between his prospecting 17 years agi and that he was doing now. "I was doing it then with no money and beat-up equipment equip-ment and that is the same way I'm doing it now," |