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Show RADIUM BEING DEPLETED. Utah and Colorado Shipping Radium Bearing Minerals Across Water. Washington. Deposits of raium-bearing raium-bearing minerals in the United States are being rapidly depleted by wasteful waste-ful exploitation, chiefly for the benefit bene-fit of foreign markets, according to a report issued Friday by the bureau ol mines. From Colorado and Utah, said to possess the most important radium-bearing radium-bearing deposits known in the world, the report said, there was shipped to Europe in 1912 carhotite ores valued commercially at $792,000. In this time only cne American company was engaged in making radium, ra-dium, and its product has only recent ly been offered for sale. |