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Jachymov mines

Jachymov mines, Czechia. Heritage site, mining silver, uranium.

Why Jachymov mines is famous

Silver town with a Wikidata inception of 1516 (town founding, used here as an approximate start of mining). Output, the thaler minting and the later uranium work are not verified from an opened page.1,2

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Jachymov mines today

Where silver is mined todayWhere uranium is mined todayMining in Czechia

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People

Worked hereGeorgius Agricola (Georg Bauer)Writing about mines began in a Bohemian silver town where he was town doctor.4Worked hereMarie CurieHer radium came from the waste of a Bohemian silver and uranium mine.5

Mines

ExamplesShinkolobweMarie Curie's pitchblende came from Joachimsthal. Shinkolobwe's ore fed the Manhattan Project.6

Places

Located inJachymovJachymov mines is about 3 km from Jachymov.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q830418 (Jachymov) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Wikidata item Q1945612 (Ore Mountain Mining Region) Wikidata (CC0)
  3. Marie Curie Biographical (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911) Nobel Foundation
  4. Agricola, Georgius Neue Deutsche Biographie / Deutsche Biographie (Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Bavarian State Library)
  5. Marie Curie, Nobel Lecture 1911 (Radium and the new concepts in chemistry) Nobel Foundation
  6. Shinkolobwe and the Manhattan Project National Museum of Nuclear Science and History (Atomic Heritage)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Cerro Rico over Potosí by Jbmurray, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: The laboratories of Marie and Pierre Curie, Paris: room where experiments on uranium ore took place. Photograph, ca. 1900., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Potosi, Bolivia, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); Dolcoath tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall: miners in a mine shaft, standing on wooden platforms connected by ladders. Photograph by J. C. Burrow, 1890/1910., Burrow, J. C., 1852-1914 (Public Domain Mark 1.0).