AUST. RADIUM MOUNTAIN?

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 11

AUST. RADIUM MOUNTAIN?

STRANGE STORY LONDON. April 2. Under the title of "Radium—Untapped Empire Sources." the Cornhill Magazine publishes a nrst-person story by Mr. Robert M. Macdonald of the discovery '.if "a radium mountain," 200 ft high, somewhere m the vicinity oi 21 degrees smith, and between 136 ami 135 degrees cast. Tho hill is ((imposed for the must part in oxide form, and is far richer than the Katnngo deuosits in Africa. Nearby was a famous anthropologist, living in a bark lint, who stated that tho aborigines call the hill "Ghost Mountain." because it was illuminated by rays of light by the radio-active clement, the rays of which were rendered harmless bv lead ore. Mr. Macdonald remarks that the story may interest anyone contemplating a radium quest. He the find as being made mi a comparatively recent prospecting trip. He mentions that two persons who saw the mountain had just come from Katanga, and adds thai, as more knowledge of the treatment of radium ores is now available, he may revisit the scene.

The bearings indicate that the mountain lies in Central Australia, on a line almost due west of Bowen (Queensland), and on a lino almost due. north of Port Lincoln (South Australia).