Ore mined in the Northwest Territories was transported to Port Hope, Ont., then used to develop the bombs that were dropped ...

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Its discovery in 1789 in the mineral pitchblende (or uraninite) is credited to the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth who named it after the planet Uranus, itself only discovered eight years ...

Radium was isolated while the Curies were studying the mineral pitchblende, revealing the element’s unique radioactive properties. • Their work not only earned them international acclaim ...

The UA92 Project is a uranium project consisting of seven prospecting licenses totaling approximately 4,828 km2 located in central Botswana. The UA92 Project is accessible through the towns of Orapa ...

A previous version of this list incorrectly printed Joe Bonsall's name as Jon Bansall. It has also been corrected to include Amelia Cuni's birth year as 1958, not 1905. Additionally, a previous ...

The two were invariably associated in the pitchblende from which the Curies extracted radium. Dr. Bertram B. Boltwood, of Yale University, has made tests with various ores that lead him to think ...

Will Chase and Zazil Davis-Vazquez contributed research to support this story. Tom Huizenga and Sheldon Pearce contributed text. Jacob Ganz edited.

He didn’t get it; the big bonus is offered only to those who find a deposit of high-grade ore, such as pitchblende. But his discovery, made at the 7,000-foot level on a huge, reddish mesa called ...

A previous version of this list incorrectly printed Joe Bonsall's name as Jon Bansall. It has also been corrected to include Amelia Cuni's birth year as 1958, not 1905. Additionally, a previous ...