Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium

• Main Author: Robison, Roger F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Economic geology.; Mineral resources.; Natural disasters.; Nuclear medicine.; Medicine.; Health.; Nature.; Environment.; Earth Sciences.; Mineral Resources.; Economic Geology.; Natural Hazards.; Nuclear Medicine.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.

Presented here is the story of the mining and sale of uranium and radium ore through biographical vignettes, chemistry, physics, geology, geography, occupational health, medical utilization, environmental safety and industrial history. Included are the people and places involved over the course of o...

Table of Contents:

• Reich Thalers & Pechblende
• Ionizing x-rays
• Radioactive rocks
• European radium sales
• Colorado uranium
• United States radium & uranium sales
• United States radium oncology
• Congo & Arctic uranium sales
• Miner’s plague
• Cold war uranium blunders.