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Deeo in the heart of the Congo, away from Pthe beaten track of £$»*J£ lie* buried immense /wealth n the iorm b^^p^^Fodaifta; remartoWe fact that tL raton mmc the Coiieb remains unworked, sajs. '{he "Moining Yost." It is the worlds greatest deposit ;of the kind; but operfc■tions have had to cease, owing, it js sdd to the eX pensivo and difficult nature of the process necessary to extract, the rndium frorii the uranium deposits. In 1922 extracts of:the.uranium ore, from which radium U obtained,, ; wcre' collected in the Congo. The supplies ; were re-, fined in Belgium, and what is, for radium the substantial quantity of several/ thousand milligrams, was; accumulated.- The marketing of the product was placed in the hands of American dealers, but, although they used 4the greatest discretion in selling; there was a sharp iall in the market price. . ' . • '.'.'." ,: ■ ■-:' ■■..■;..■.■;■.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 109, 4 November 1925, Page 3
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