| Show RADIUM NOW SELLING FOR THREE MILLIONS AN OUNCE the effect of war on prices has been more strikingly exemplified in the metal industries dus tries than anywhere else particularly among metals which have practical uses in war although this includes nearly all of them an article in the railroad blue book says the war pressure has been felt as keenly in the market for the rarest and cost liest metal as the commoner metals consequently the price of radium which before the war was somewhere around an ounce is now approximately an ounce practically an ail the worlds commercial supply of radium comes from the beds of colorado and utah which also yield the rare metals uranium and vanadium even these deposits however are limited in extent and are difficult to work I 1 and some of them are being worked out so that the output of radium is likely to decrease rather than increase last year from 1100 to 1800 tons of ore was mined in colorado and this was considerably sider ably less than the quantity the previous year the amount of radium extracted from a single ton of ore is mal |
