= Jáchymov
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= Joachimsthal
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"Joachimsthal" is the <German> for it. Note how it is just near the modern frontier between <Germany> and the <Czech Republic>.
It is from <ore> of this mine that <Uranium> and <Radium> were discovered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uranium&oldid=1243907294#Pre-discovery_use[]:
> In the early 19th century, the world's only known sources of <uranium ore> were these mines.
Apparently the region was a <silver> mining center:
> Starting in the late Middle Ages, <pitchblende> was extracted from the Habsburg silver mines in Joachimsthal, Bohemia (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic), and was used as a coloring agent in the local glassmaking industry
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