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At Dyno mine, at the eastern edge of the Cheddar granite, five zones of ore occur as uranothorite and uraninite in a set of steeply-dipping lens-shaped dykes of pegmatitic granite 0.9 to 20 m (3 to 60 ft) wide, which intrude into gneisses. Ore occurs across the full width of narrower dykes (up to about 3.7 m [12 ft] wide); in wider dykes, ore ...
Greyhawk Mine is a decommissioned underground uranium mine located in Faraday Township near Bancroft, Ontario. It operated from 1954 to 1959 and from 1976 to 1982. The mine produced 80,247 tons of uranium ore, of which 0.069% was U 3 O 8 worth $834,899. Aside from uranium, the mine has produced some of the world's best samples of Kainosite-(Y).
Prospectors have worked the area of the mine since the late 19th-century, seeking mica, phosphate, and feldspar. [3]S. Orser and D. J. Wilson worked the mine in 1925. [4] In 1927, Bancroft Mining Company started excavations and found a cavity holding albite, fluorite, pyrite, sphene, and apatite crystals on the cavity floor.
There are three notable memorials in Rockford Park. The first is Canby Seat, a granite bench and memorial to botanist William M. Canby.Canby was the first President of the Board of Park Commissioners and he was responsible for allocating the funds which developed the park after Bancroft donated the land.
Bancroft Tower is a 56-foot-high (17 m) tower of granite and natural stone, which looks like a miniature feudal castle. It is in Salisbury Park, in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts . The folly was erected in 1900, in memory of George Bancroft , a native of Worcester and a politician, historian, and statesman.
Granite Harbour is a British police procedural television drama series set in Aberdeen, Scotland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is based on an idea by Adriel Leff & Kul Muhay. The series was first broadcast on BBC Scotland on 1 December 2022, followed by BBC One.
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