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Vintage VDUP Uranium Mines Construction Company Pin Badge
Vintage VDUP Uranium Mines Construction Company Pin Badge
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- A pretty advertising pin from former Czechoslovakia. The badge face is 1.6cm wide and has a stick pin fastener to the rear. The pin is from a specialised company called Výstavba dolů uranového průmyslu ( VDUP) who were involved in Uranium mine construction in former Czechoslovakia.
- They were a state run enterprise that were equipped to manage the additional challenges faced when mining radioactive ore.
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The first deliberate mining of radioactive ores took place in Jachymov in what is now the Czech Republic. Marie Curie used pitchblende ore from Jachymov to isolate the element radium, a decay product of uranium.
Until World War II uranium mining was done primarily for the radium content. Sources for radium, contained in the uranium ore, were sought for use as luminous paint for watch dials and other instruments, as well as for health-related applications, some of which in retrospect might have been harmful. The byproduct uranium was used mostly as a yellow pigment.
