URANIUM IN BULLER
Tivo Scientists Optimistic
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 3.
Two scientists of the Nuclear Science Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research have indicated that the mining of uranium ores in the Buller region may be worth while. Mr J. A. McWilliams said in an address to the Wellington branc.i of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers recently:—“There are good reasons to expect that the present indications of uranium ores in the Buller district will result in the commercial production of uranium in this country.” The following day, Mr T. A. Rafter, the head of the division, told the Wellington Optimists’ Club:—“From the Buller Gorge have come specimens of rock with a percentage of uranium far greater than had been thought possible previously by our geologists.”
The Uhder-Secretary of Mines (Mr C. H. Benney) said today that Mr J. B. Richardson, a United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority expert who inspected uranium deposits in the Buller in July, had made no report, and nothing was available for publication.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28399, 4 October 1957, Page 12
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