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Show AMERICAN RADIUM-' MARECLOSED The European war has, for the present at least, totally closed the European market to American radium ores. As In well known, the uranium ores of Colorado and Utah are sold exclusively for their radium content, so little use being known for the uranium ur-anium that the ores can not be sold for their content of that element. The condition ot the European 'market 'mar-ket leaves the miners without a buyer; buy-er; so that while the war lasts, and probably for some tlrao afterwards, the market will bo restricted and without the benefit of competition. As has been pointed out by Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior Lane, had the bills Introduced in Congress been passed, the United States government would probably havo been in the market as a buyer and the miner might now havo a chanco to sell his ore. |
