Show URANIUM FOUND IN GUERRERO William Niven Well Known Mexican Scientist Credited With Important Discovery I Professor William Wililam Niven the well known scientist dentist of Mexico has discovered in the state tate of ot Guerrero a deposit of rare earth In n which it appears that a large percent percentage percentage age of the rare element uranium from some ome of ot whose ores comes the priceless wonderworking element radium says the Mexican Herald are now at work endeavoring to o the presence of ot such ele elements elements elements ments and if f they are really there It Itma may ma be that this Mexican deposit will place upon the market sufficient quan quantities titles of this rare mineral to make it possible to put it to the really practical uses of which scientists believe It capable A report was recently published by b the geological survey In Washington of a ade de posit of rare earth minerals in Texas the locality which is isn In n Llano county c it reads Few If It f any an other deposits in the till world and certainly no other in Amer AmerIca America Ica ca outside of the monazite localities have yielded such amounts of ot the rare earth minerals as BarrInger Hill HillIn HillIn HillIn In the American Journal of Science December 1890 1190 there is the description of several severa Urla and thorla thoria minerals from lano Llano county count Texas with announcements of f three new species thoro and of mono and and this Is from the he locality above referred to It was mainly through the efforts of ot Mr Niven Iven In whose honor one of the abovementioned new minerals was named that hat this valuable deposit was first brought to light and now by a remark remarkable remarkable remarkable able coincidence Mr lr Niven has recently discovered this other rare earth mineral minerai locality in the state of Guerrero Mexico which promises to far outstrip In Import Importance Importance importance ance and value any other otheL similar deposit In n the world Uranium and Copper The name of the rare earth in Guerrero Guerreo Guerreros Is s a hydro phosphate of ura urn uranium uranium and copper which was identified by b Jose G Aguilera director of the Mexican Mexican can ean Geological institute This is the it t discovery discover of or uranium in Mexico and v Las aSS as excited the most moat profound interest in scientific circles as it has been from tram the ores of ot uranium that the entire product Iff dr the wonderful metal radium only a afew afew afew few grammes has been extracted The marvelous discovery was made by Madame Professor Protessor Curie Curle in Paris that one of the minerals front from fco l which uranium Is obtained contains an entire entirely ly y new element which Is more than a mil million million million lion times as active as uranium In gh Ing ng off oft radiations and this substance is isnow Isnow isnow now the famous radium Whether or not this wondrous living Jiving substance will cure cancer or not Is a question for tor the scientist but its most wonderful property Is that it gives off light of Itself and that without any an ap apparent apparent apparent parent of ot its force It is safe to o say sa that no other metal meta has so electrified fied fled the scientific world as this and at atthe atthe atthe the meeting in London last summer of or orthe the British Association for the Advance Advancement Advancement Advancement ment of or Science Sir William Ramsay made a new announcement that the em emanation emanation emanation from radium changes chan es Into an another another another other element helium and that under certain circumstances it also changes Into nto both argon and neon two other rare elements but also that copper when acted upon by the radium emanation is changed Into lithium and possibly also into sodium and potassium In the Metals This statement concerning the copper and lithium was most in its I effect because here at last was something some ome something thing startlingly like the dream of the alchemists Here was a well known metal one of the oldest and most familiar in human use turned at the magic touch of a mysterious emanation Into another metal entirely different in appearance color olor weight and utility Lithium is the light white soft metal meta whose volatile compounds produce the magnificent crimson flame so well known In and this brings up the question if It copper opper can be turned into the metal lithium by b the influence of the emanation from radium why not some something something something thing else be turned into the metal meta gold That question undoubtedly occurred o to many thousands of minds the instant that Sir William Ramsays discovery became known and here are quoted the disco discoverers own words These remarkable results appear to In Indicate Indicate Indicate I the following line of thought From its activity It Is probable that radium emanation belongs to the helium series of elements During its spontaneous change chan e it parts with a relatively enormous amount of ot oten energy en erg The direction In which the th energy Is expended may be modified by circum circumstances circumstances circumstances stances If It the emanation is alone or in contact with hydrogen and oxygen gases a portion Is decomposed or disintegrated by the energy glen glyen off oft by the rest The gaseous substance produced Is in this case helium If It however the distribution of or the energy Is modified by the presence pre en e of oC wa water water water ter that portion of the emanation which Is decomposed yields Ields neon if in the pres prea presence presence ence once of ot copper sulphate argon aron Similarly Similar the copper c acted upon by bythe b bythe the emanation is degraded to the first member of Its group roup namely lithia It Is impossible to prove that sodium and are formed seeing that they are constituents of ot the glass vessel vesselIn In which the solution Is contained but from analogy with the decomposition prod products nets of the emanation they may ma also be products of the degradation of cop copper copper copper per Discovery Is Counted as Important It will thus be hp seen how Important is thi this discovery of ot uranium in Guerrero and particularly so If IC the deposit Is so extensive as Is believed helleved by Mr Niven Nhen who has traced the vein on the tire surface for a distance of over feet teet The most abundant n the Tex Texas Texas as locality were the ores of yttrium gado Unite and so forth fort but in inthis Inthis inthis this Mexican deposit the principal ore in evidence is uranium I Ihas Mr Aguilera of ot the Geological Institute has been at work for over a week on specimens from the new discovery en endeavoring endeavoring to find the presence of at the theother theother theother other rare elements by the spectroscope and some some Interesting revelations are ex expected very shortly One of the minerals he has found founG contains 22 2 per cent of co cobalt i baIt balt with a large percentage of arsenic Before the eminent zoologist Dr Ga Gadow Gadow I dow dov of Cambridge England left for tor the study stud of the Jorullo volcano In MIchoacan last month Mr Ir Niven gave him a number of specimens of ot the uranium minerals found In the state of ot Guerrero which he sent to the Royal Roval Society of ot London re requesting rEquesting requesting questing Sir William Ramsay to have hac I them analyzed |