Photo Gallery

Photo of radioactive dyke at the Matte zone. The geiger counter reads 40 µSv/h, the maximum reading of this BR-6 geiger counter. The true radioactivity is higher.

Photo looking along strike of the Matte zone. Notice the weathered orange outcrop of the vein-dyke ore body.

Photo looking at Matte zone open pit and tailings. The site was mined between 1943-1944 for fluorite.

Photo looking upwards towards the tunnel entrance. (The tunnel portal is now backfilled). In 1955, a 175m long tunnel was constructed through the mountain to access the back of the Matte zone.

Photo of radioactive dyke at the Matte zone. The geiger counter reads 4.16 µSv/h, about 20 times background radiation.

Close-up photo of the ore body. Nodules of diopside, scapolite, appatite and fluorite float in an orange