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UNINA9910455810003321 |
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Autore |
Bothwell Robert |
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Titolo |
Eldorado : Canada's national uranium company / / Robert Bothwell |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1984 |
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©1984 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-01192-8 |
9786612011924 |
1-4426-7433-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (513 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Uranium industry - Canada - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. The Canadian Shield -- 2. Northern Lights -- Interlude: The Powers of the Atom -- 3. From Radium to Uranium -- 4. Private into Public -- Interlude: War into Cold War -- 5. The Shadow of War -- 6. Mines and Money -- Interlude: Searching for Security -- 7. Stoking a Boom: The Search for a Just Price -- 8. Beaverlodge and the Boom -- 9. Beaverlodge and the Boom: II -- 10. Getting There Is Half the Fun -- Interlude: Atoms for Peace -- 11. The Politics of Peace -- 12. Too Little, Too Soon -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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On 16 May 1930, Gilbert LaBine ddiscovered pitchblende near the shores of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. This is the story of Eldorado and the mine whose discovery marked the beginning of Canada's uranium industry. Robert Bothwell tells how Gilbert and Charlie LaBine, veteran Canadian prospectors, promoted and developed Eldorado Gold Mins Limited to produce radium. Thought to be the miracle cure for cancer, the rare mineral had a market price at the time of |
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