[HN Gopher] The Pitchblende of Cornwall, England (1915) [pdf]
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       The Pitchblende of Cornwall, England (1915) [pdf]
        
       Author : dcminter
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-05-14 07:58 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | londons_explore wrote:
       | Interesting article.
       | 
       | When I visited North Cornwall I noticed some dark grey but
       | slightly metallic looking rocks. I was surprised how heavy they
       | were, although they don't make good 'hammer' rocks because they
       | break quite easily. They were usually embedded in other rocks,
       | but occasionally you'd find one free.
       | 
       | I always assumed it was a type of coal.
       | 
       | Maybe I shouldn't have been playing with them if uranium is a
       | main constituent...
        
         | tleilaxu wrote:
         | Gosh! Where was this, if you don't mind me asking?
         | 
         | I live in Cornwall, am a programmer, and an amateur geologist
         | so this post makes me very excited, hah!
        
           | londons_explore wrote:
           | In the rocks a few hundred meters to the south of polzeath
           | beach. I think there might be more to the north too, about
           | halfway to pentire.
        
       | TimMurnaghan wrote:
       | Houses in Cornwall need Radon surveys.
       | https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment/environmental-protec...
        
         | cafard wrote:
         | A lot of houses in the US Mid-Atlantic states need Radon
         | checks, too. But I've never heard of uranium ores here.
        
           | someguydave wrote:
           | there is a proposed uranium mine in virginia
           | http://www.virginiaplaces.org/energy/mininguranium.html
        
       | bruceb wrote:
       | @dcminter out of curiosity what was the reason to submit this?
        
         | dcminter wrote:
         | I read the article about space-originating plutonium. Looked up
         | something about that in Wikipedia, noticed that there had been
         | uranium mines in England, wanted to know more (I'm English),
         | googled and found and read this.
         | 
         | I then submitted it because I thought the 1915 perspective on
         | Uranium was interesting.
        
           | tleilaxu wrote:
           | Thank you for submitting it! It's a combination of all my
           | interests and location.
           | 
           | Fascinating.
        
             | dcminter wrote:
             | Thanks - if you get a response to your query in the other
             | thread and investigate I hope you'll write it up and submit
             | it!
        
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