Story: Radioactive minerals

More links and websites

• Mineral Commodity Report 19

  This is a report (PDF 184 KB) on minerals, including uranium, by Tony Christie and Bob Brathwaite.

• Uranium mineralisation in the Hawks Crag Breccia of the lower Buller Gorge region, South Island, New Zealand

  This paper describes the uranium mineralisation discovered in the lower Buller Gorge in 1955. It was published in the New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics (1958).

More suggestions and sources

• Bolitho, Elaine E. ‘There’s uranium in them thar hills.’ In Reefton School of Mines, 1886–1970: stories of Jim Bolitho, 110–118. Reefton: Friends of Waiuta in association with Reefton School of Mines and the Bolitho family, 1999.
• Nathan, S., M. R. Rattenbury, and R. P. Suggate. ‘Geology of the Greymouth area.’ Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Geological Map 12. Wellington: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, 2003.
• Nicholson, D. S. ‘Wartime search for uranium.’ New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology (January 1955): 375–396.
• Priestley, Rebecca. ‘The search for uranium in “nuclear-free” New Zealand: prospecting on the West Coast, 1940s to 1970s. New Zealand Geographer 62 (2006): 121–134.
• Williams, G. J. Economic geology of New Zealand. Monograph Series 4. Parkville: Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1974.