RADIUM IN CANADA.
ONLY REFINERY IN BRITISH EMPIRE. * ' CHALLENGE TO BELGIAN SYNDICATE. RICH PITCHBLENDE DEPOSITS IN FAR NORTH. (Received Wednesdav, 7.45 p.m.) PORT HOPE (Ontario), Dec. 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 supply. Fifty-six .tons of pitchblende of almost unbelievable richness, mined in the Great Bear Lake distr ets, in the Far North of Canada, are stacked at the plant here. According to Canadian Government geologists it verages between forty and fifty per cent, uranium oxide and will produce about 125 milligrammes of refined radium per ton.
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Wairarapa Age, 22 December 1932, Page 5
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