It is worth recalling the history of this treatment, which began when American, James Douglas, discovered extensive pitchblende deposits on his Western mining properties. |
It was a waste product from the production of radium from the pitchblende deposits around Great Bear Lake in northern Canada. |
The most common ore of the element is pitchblende, although it is also present in other minerals, such as uraninite, carnotite, uranophane, and coffinite. |
More illusive than gold and many times more precious, radium, the product of pitchblende, had somehow gotten into his blood. |
With his dog team on his second journey in search of pitchblende he had traveled fifty miles, and the day was still young. |
During the early years of radium and uranium refinery operations in Port Hope, highgrade pitchblende ores were processed. |