SUPPLY OF RADIUM
OPERATIONS IN CANADA
(United Press Association —By Fjectrio Te legraph—Copyright)
PORT HOPE (Ontario), Dec, 20
The only radium refinery in the British Empire will be operating within ten days. Made from Cadanian ore, the radium will, prove Canada’s challenge to the Belgian syndicate which controls the world’s supply. Fifty-six tons of pitchblende of almost unbelieveable richness, which lias been mined in the Great Bear Lake district in the far north 0 f Canada, is now stacked at the plant here. According to the Canadian Government geologist the pitchblende averages between forty and fifty per cent, uranium oxide, and wi.? produce about 125 milligrammes of refined radium per ton. .
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1932, Page 5
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111SUPPLY OF RADIUM Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1932, Page 5
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