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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 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.

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