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South Terras Mine is a disused uranium and radium mine near Grampound Road and St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall.[1]

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  1. 49 relations: Activated carbon, Adit, Aerugite, Becquerel, Bismuth, Bismuth ferrite, Braunschweig, British Geological Survey, Cornwall, Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, Edward VII, Eldorado Mine (Northwest Territories), Eldorado Resources, Gersdorffite, Grampound Road, Iron, Loellingite, London Radium Institute, Manhattan Project, Mindat.org, Mineral, Mining in Cornwall and Devon, Nasolabial fold, Native metal, Ochre, Paris, Pierre Curie, Port Hope, Ontario, Port Radium, Radioactive decay, Radium, Radium bromide, Radon, Rammelsbergite, Sievert, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Skutterudite, Smaltite, St Stephen-in-Brannel, Tin, Torbernite, Uraninite, Uranium, Uranium glass, Uranium mining, Uranium mining in Canada, Working level, World War I, Xanthiosite.

  2. Cornish mining organisations
  3. Mines in Cornwall
  4. Radium
  5. Uranium mines

Activated carbon

Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, is a form of carbon commonly used to filter contaminants from water and air, among many other uses.

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Adit

An adit (from Latin aditus, entrance) or stulm is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage to an underground mine.

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Aerugite

Aerugite is a rare complex nickel arsenate mineral with a variably reported formula: Ni9(AsO4)2AsO6.

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Becquerel

The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI).

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Bismuth

Bismuth is a chemical element; it has symbol Bi and atomic number 83.

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Bismuth ferrite

Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3, also commonly referred to as BFO in materials science) is an inorganic chemical compound with perovskite structure and one of the most promising multiferroic materials.

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Braunschweig

Braunschweig or Brunswick (from Low German Brunswiek, local dialect: Bronswiek) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser.

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British Geological Survey

The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, (10 November 1847 – 7 October 1927) was an Anglo-Irish businessman and philanthropist.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Eldorado Mine (Northwest Territories)

The Eldorado Mine is a defunct mine located in Port Radium, Northwest Territories, Canada. South Terras mine and Eldorado Mine (Northwest Territories) are uranium mines.

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Eldorado Resources

Eldorado Resources was a Canadian mining company active between 1926 and 1988.

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Gersdorffite

Gersdorffite or Nickel glance (trivial name) is a nickel arsenic sulfide mineral with formula NiAsS.

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Grampound Road

Grampound Road (Fordh Ponsmeur) is a village in the parish of Ladock, Cornwall, England, north-west of Grampound.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Loellingite

Loellingite, also spelled löllingite, is an iron arsenide mineral with formula FeAs2.

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London Radium Institute

The London Radium Institute was a public health initiative set in motion by Edward VII in 1909 and initially financed by Ernest Cassel and Edward Guinness.

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Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.

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Mindat.org

Mindat.org is a non-commercial interactive online database covering minerals around the world.

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Mineral

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

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Mining in Cornwall and Devon

Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the southwest of Britain, is thought to have begun in the early-middle Bronze Age with the exploitation of cassiterite.

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Nasolabial fold

The nasolabial folds, commonly known as "smile lines" or "laugh lines", are facial features.

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A native metal is any metal that is found pure in its metallic form in nature.

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Ochre

Ochre, iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity.

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Port Hope, Ontario

Port Hope is a municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, approximately east of Toronto and about west of Kingston.

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Port Radium

Port Radium is a mining area on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Radioactive decay

Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation.

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Radium

Radium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ra and atomic number 88.

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Radium bromide

Radium bromide is the bromide salt of radium, with the formula RaBr2.

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Radon

Radon is a chemical element; it has symbol Rn and atomic number 86.

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Rammelsbergite

Rammelsbergite is a nickel arsenide mineral with formula NiAs2.

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Sievert

The sievert (symbol: SvPlease note there are two non-SI units that use the same Sv abbreviation: the sverdrup and svedberg.) is a unit in the International System of Units (SI) intended to represent the stochastic health risk of ionizing radiation, which is defined as the probability of causing radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage.

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Site of Special Scientific Interest

A site of special scientific interest (SSSI) in Great Britain, or an area of special scientific interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.

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Skutterudite

Skutterudite is a cobalt arsenide mineral containing variable amounts of nickel and iron substituting for cobalt with the ideal formula CoAs3.

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Smaltite

Smaltite is a variety of the mineral skutterudite consisting of cobalt, iron, nickel, and arsenide.

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St Stephen-in-Brannel

St Stephen-in-Brannel (known locally as St Stephen's or St Stephen) (Eglosstefan yn Branel) is a civil parish and village in mid Cornwall, England.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn and atomic number 50.

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Torbernite

Torbernite, also known as chalcolite, is a relatively common mineral with the chemical formula Cu2(H2O)12.

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Uraninite

Uraninite, also known as pitchblende, is a radioactive, uranium-rich mineral and ore with a chemical composition that is largely UO2 but because of oxidation typically contains variable proportions of U3O8.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Uranium glass

Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting for colouration.

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Uranium mining

Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground.

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Uranium mining in Canada

Canada is the world's second-largest producer of uranium, behind Kazakhstan.

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Working level

Working level (WL) is a historical unit of concentration of radioactive decay products of radon, applied to uranium mining environment.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Xanthiosite

Xanthiosite is an arsenate mineral first discovered in Germany in 1858; it may also be found in Greece.

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See also

Cornish mining organisations

Mines in Cornwall

Radium

Uranium mines

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Terras_mine