| Show GRAND COUNTY URANIUM moab times another carload of ore is being delivered at richardson for shipment to the railroad from the welsh vels lofftus uranium properties J H lofftus the manager of the property is gradually getting the mine in shape for a heavy heavy product as soon as the experimental plant at niagara new york is ready for business which will be soon after new years so far every detail is being successfully carried out and the ore found to be more valuable than at first thought that this is one of the most remarkable mining properties yet discovered can be well understood by the high compliment paid to it by hon don maguire in another part of this issue one of the most remarkable features about this prop property erty is that besides its gold silver and copper values the ore contains seven different kinds of the rare minerals the principal of which is radium radium co col barium and other valuable metals in demand at high prices in the commercial world so far no other part of the mining world has been able to produce the radium barium ore and this was an accidental discovery made by madame curie of paris from ore taken over to france by charles pollas the uranium expert in 1898 from these mines ie it may be truly said that grand county is the home of radium and rare minerals |
