Show startling discovery the united states bureau of mines hns allide iho startling tart ling tit covery that moro inore than two thirds of tho the radium supply of the I 1 world orld is being r mude in europe loin american ores shipped abroad 1 through tile the foresight 0 of foreign scientists radi radium U I 1 is s purchasable only ui lii very small quantities and aid ata ab a price equivalent tu ill an ounce and although from the investing invest ig actions of the bureau burean of 11 mines ines it ib ia alio shown that the united states lias has the greatest known supply 0 of radium hearing bearing ores in the world not one grant gram has been produced here the rhe united states to doy day is in III the militating hu position of being forced to perolia se at extravagant trava gant prices from abroad such radium as its hospitals and physicians can alfrord for experimental ini purposes while we have becent supplying tile the oros ores from on which it is made suid said charles L marsans Par sans chief of the division of mineral technology 6 of the bure bureau ati we have paid eur prices for what we could ret et in ill order to invests investigate tito the 11 I 1 t wonderful 1 10 ild erful p properties of radium an ind d their p possible os sible application to the eradication of disease it is Li needless cedless to say that th at we have been greatly hampered i in 11 out our work by the almost prohibitive prices tit at which the radium has been hold several months ago rumors reached alie abe bureau of mines that in colorado there lias has been an all increased demand for tho the radium carrying ore and that this ore wits was being ship ped abroad I 1 in considerable quan city it was also reported that the burpo Eur europeans po ans were insisting up on oil oi 01 ly tile the highest grades of I 1 I 1 these ores and that a L groat great amount of lower grade otes ores was practically being wasted R B moore alo K aj L in charge of the denver lab oratory of the bureau was requested to investigate these rumors and they reached the sur conclusion that whilo while all the radium placed upon tipon the markot market in ill tile the last few yeas years had been produced in europe a laro larno in portion of this had come colne from Anier american ienn ores 4 radium institutes have been established in australia franco france I 1 germany and england englana all and a european science and industry have been developed from amer ican ores the austrian government realizing zing 0 the untold possibilities bili ties of the radium ores at st joao joachimsthal Joachim hini purchased tile the mines put them under direct govern go vol n mental III e n tit supervision vision and has tin an arrangement with tile bhe vienna academy of science whore where jy by tho ore is i worked up tip into rad mm alln 1 on oil the other hand the united ted suites has allowed I 1 her much 0 greater resources to ho be exploited by foreigners on a basis basi s W which aich wastes pel perhaps haps bly it a largo large portion of tho the oi orea 63 mined and has exported carefully selected ores at a price by no moans commens commensurate with its radium value even before car kotite was exported pitchblende another radium making 9 ore of the highest grade was hoing being sent nut of tho the country at the kinle when the Nv worlds radium output was slip supposed posed to bo coming wholly irom from austrian ores 11 whilce hile carno tito is found in small quantities in a number of elates the more important deposits are scattered over a con sid erable area in colorado and utah embracing meeker and skull greek creek in colo green river thompsons Thomp sons moab richardson table mountain pub pith reah and other places in ut utah tile the largest proportion of this ore however has been pro dudeL in or around paradox valley m southwest 0 colorado 1 in III t the lie iii mining ining of those these carno ii tie e ores 5 tons are thrown 71 the dump for every ton that find finds its way to market to develop methods for ontra ti of those thoe ores and sayo have the vidna valuable hlo material now wasted is one or of the peoble problems ins before the bureau of mines with fair prospect of a L successful conclusion pitchblende Pitch blond blend the riel richest lest olt ol all radium bearing minerals ii haa aa been found in small quantities in connecticut and in the feldspar quarries of north carolina practically the total american output has come from the alles mlles in quartz hill gilpin county colorado practically everston every ton of car kotite mined in 1912 went abroad and as the american Amei Aino ican lican deposits are arc far from boing being inexhaustible s wo we are rapidly do depleting our own reserve reserva and are shipping from this county material of t great great value and of unknown possibilities which cannot bo be replaced the value of the radium in this or ore 0 at iho minimum market mal aca price would be it is tho the purpose odthe bur eau cau of mines to encourage tile tho development of a radium industry iu in the united states |