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What is a pitchblende?

What is a pitchblende? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (mineralogy) Naturally-occurring uranium oxide, a variety of the mineral uraninite.
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It was a waste product from the production of radium from the pitchblende deposits around Great Bear Lake in northern Canada.
He was probably one of the few Canadian prospectors of that time who could have identified the pitchblende mineral.
The project at hand is to extract the newly discovered deposits of pitchblende on these satellites of Jupiter.
With his dog team on his second journey in search of pitchblende he had traveled fifty miles, and the day was still young.
The first discovery of pitchblende in the United States was associated with gold ores at the Wood mine in Gilpin County.
It would take a deposit of pitchblende richer than anything I've ever heard of to penetrate the lead.

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