RADIUM ORE
■VAST DEPOSITS FOUND SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE GERMAN EXPLORER'S REPORT COMPANY BEING FORMED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September ?0, 5.5 p.m.) VANCOUVER, Sept. 29 A message from Port of Spain, Trinidad, states that after 10 months' exploration in the jungles of South America Dr. Otto Vogt van Sickingen, an eminent German bacteriologist, arrived there to-day to announce the discovery of vast deposits of pitchblende radium ore near the border-line between Dutch Guiana and Brazil. Dr. van Sickingen is hastening back to Philadelphia, where a company is being formed to operate the deposits, which, he says, in quantity and quality surpass the best known to the scientific world. Only by the use of aeroplanes can the deposits be opened up. Pitch-blende, a very scarce mineral, is the source of radium. Scientifically it is an oxide of uranium, and is black or brown in colour. It occurs in masses with ores of lead, silver and tin. In the latter connection it has been found in Cornwall. Saxony, Bohemia and Hungary also yield it in lead and silver veins, and small quantities have been found in some parts of North America.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21919, 1 October 1934, Page 9
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189RADIUM ORE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21919, 1 October 1934, Page 9
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