Story: Radioactive minerals
Two veteran prospectors, Frederick Cassin and Charles Jacobsen, hold a Geiger counter up to a sample of uranium ore. The rock was from the original area of discovery near Batty Creek in the Lower Buller Gorge. ‘I believe that it is possible we have discovered the second most concentrated uranium deposit in the world,’ Cassin commented to the Dominion reporter. It was not quite true, but everyone was happy to believe him.
About this item
Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Free Lance Collection (PAColl-0785)
Reference: C-028110-1/2
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.