JOSIE BISHOP, a sixty-year-old mining veteran of the Mojave Desert who has “struck it rich.” Radium bearing pitchblende, valued at 7,000 dollars a ton, has been assayed from samples taken from her mine near Red Rock Canyon, California. Only one other pitchblende deposit is known on the North American continent. She declares: “If what they tell me is true, I’ll set up a trust fund for poor old prospectors.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20829, 10 September 1937, Page 14
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69JOSIE BISHOP, a sixty-yearold mining veteran of the Mojave Desert who has “struck it rich.” Radium bearing pitchblende, valued at 7,000 dollars a ton, has been assayed from samples taken from her mine near Red Rock Canyon, California. Only one other pitchblende deposit is known on the North American continent. She declares: “If what they tell me is true, I’ll set up a trust fund for poor old prospectors.” Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20829, 10 September 1937, Page 14
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