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THE Times of January 18 reports the discovery of a fine lode containing pitchblende on the Kingswood estate, Buckfastleigh, South Devon, and quotes an analysis of what is stated to be a representative sample of the ore, which shows a uranium oxide content of more than 26 per cent. This is the first time that pitchblende ore has been recorded from Devon. The precise location of the lode is not stated, but Kingswood is situated upon shales of Upper Devonian age, and just outside the area to which the meta-morphism caused by the Dartmoor granite has extended. North of Kingswood there are several copper lodes that course in a general east-to-west direction, underlie south, and contain mixed sulphide ores. These were the only lodes hitherto known in the district. Uranium ores where they exist in Cornwall are associated with copper.
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Pitchblende Ore in Devon . Nature 102, 427 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/102427b0
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