RICH IN RADIUM.
CANADIAN ORE TO BE UTILISED. A CHALLENGE TO BSLQIA*f MONOPOLY. (OXITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION —BT MLMCfIM TXLioBABSr-rCornuaHT.) (Received December 21st, 7-4# JBM-) PORT HOPE (Ontario), December 20. The only radium refinery in the British Empire will he operating within ten days. Extracted from Canadian ore, the radium will prove Canada's challenge to the Belgian syndicate which controls tho supply. fifty-six tons of pitc]iblend most, incredible richness were mined in ihe Great J3e<vr Ljike district in the far north of Canada and stacked at a plant here. According to Canadian (rpvernment geologists it. averages between 40 and 5Q per cent, uranium oxide, and will produce about 135 milligrammes of refined radium a ton.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20736, 22 December 1932, Page 11
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