Show startling bis discovery covery the united states stated bureau of 0 na minca 1 ti es has made the startling dit di covery that more than two third of the radium supply of the world is being made in europe horn from american ores shipped abroad through tho foresight td of foreign scientists radium badiu is is purchasable only in ii very small quantities and ata at a price equivalent tt to in an ounce and althou although 9 h from the investing invest ig actions of tho the bureau of minos mines it ia 6 shown that the united states has tile gr greatest calest known supply of radium hearing bearing ores in the world not ono one grani gram has been produced hero here the rho united states to day is in ill tile the militating hu abing position of being forced to purchase so at extravagant trava gant pr prices ces from abroad such radium as its hospitals and physicians can afford for experimental purposes while we havo have beecie supplying tile the ores from which it is made suid said charles L marsans Par sans chief of the division of mineral technology of the bureau we have paid eur prices for what abat we could get yet in order to investigate the wonderful Vond erful properties of radium ind their possible application to the eradication of disease it is needless to say that idt wo we have been greatly re aly hampered i in n our work by the almost prohibitive prices tit at which the radium has been bien hold several months ago rumors reached the bureau of mines th that it in color colorado ado there lias has been an increased derna demand ild for the radium carrying ore and that this ore was being ship ped abroad in considerable quantity it was vas also reported that the europeans were insisting up on olly ol 01 ly the highest grades geades of cheso ores and that a L groat reat a m aunt of lower grade ores oles was practically being wasted R B moore ald K L kithil in chai charge chaio o of the denver chloi lab oratory of the bureau was requested to investigate th these eso rumors and they rea reached olied the surprising conclusion that while all the radium placed upon tipon tile the markot market in ill tile the last few years had been produced in flu europe rope a laro larce M portion of ohis had come from american ores 1 l radium institutes have been established in australia franco france germany and england and t a european science and indi industry stry have been dov developed eloped from american ores the austrian gov government ern realizing the untold pos possibilities i bili ties of the radium ores at S sl T Joachini purchased ali tl mines put them under tinder direct 11 governmental govern mental supervision and has an arrangement with th the 0 vienna enna a academy of science whereby the ore is worked up tip into rod lum on oil the other hand tile the U united states has allowed I 1 her much greater resources sources ic to he be exploited Il OiLed by foreigners on oil a basis which wastes perhaps ihly bly a large portion of the ores mined and has exported care fully selected ores tit at a price hy by 1 no mens commensurate with its f i radium value even before car jf botito was vaa exported pitchblende another radium making ore of tw ole highest grade grado was being sent scat nut of tile the country at a t the time 1 when the worlds radium output ik was sup supposed posca to he be co coming mill wholly irom from austrian ores y while is found in small quantities in a number afi r states the more important deposits tire are scattered over a con sid erable area in colorado land and utah embracing meeker and skull greek in colo green river thompsons Thomp sons SODS moab rich ardson tuble bublo mountain pall pah A reah and other places in utah the largest proportion pio portion of this ore however lifts has been produced prodoc el t in or around paradox valley in southwest colorado ol orado rn in the mining of these carno t lo lie ores 5 tons are thronton thron atkind n la 19 pon h 1 the dump for every ton mat at lind find its way to market to develop do celop methods for con n of those 0 ores and save the vt h material now wasted is one the problems leins before the bureau of mines with fair prospect of a successful conclusion J s blend the richest of alli all radium bearing minerals b haa as turf been becu found bozin in ill small quantities i in 11 connecticut and in tile the feldspar quarries of north carolina practically the total american output hits has come from the mines in quartz hill gilpin county colorado practically everston every ton of car kotite mined in 1912 went abroad and as the american deposits deposit are far from being inexhaustible inex haus tible wo avo tire are rapidly depleting our owal owa A reserve aud are shipping from 10 this county material of td great value and of unknown ties which cannot bo be replaced k th the e v bilue allue of the radium in ill this ore at ole iho mini minimum murn marl market ket 1 price would be is the purpose odthe of the bur cau of mines to encourage 1 I tho the development of a radium indus try in ill the united states |