RADIUM REFINERY
CANADIAN VENTURE CHALLENGE TO BELGIAN SYNDICATE OPERATING SOON » (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.45 p.m.) Port Hope (Ontario), December 20. The only radium refinery in the British Empire will be operating within ten days. Made from Canadian ore, the radium will prove Canada’s challenge to the Belgian syndicate which controls the world’s supply.
Fifty-six tons of pitchblende of almost unbelievable richness, mined in the Great Bear Lake district in the far north of Canada, are stacked at a plant here. According to Canadian Government geologists it averages between 40 and 50 per cent, of uraniumoxide, and will produce about 125 milligrammes of refined radium per ton.
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Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 5
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108RADIUM REFINERY Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 5
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