This article is about the 1938 A. Y. Jackson painting. For mining of radium, see radium.
Radium Mine is a painting made by Canadian artist A.Y. Jackson when he visited the mine-site of the isolated Radium mine at Port Radium, Northwest Territories, in 1938.[1][2] Jackson was a friend of prospector Gilbert LaBine, then the mine manager, and flew to the site with him.
^"Painting tied to Manhattan Project to be auctioned". Asia One. 2012-11-14. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2012-12-02. A 74-year-old painting depicting the Canadian mine that produced uranium for the world's first atomic bomb will go under the hammer in Toronto on November 22, set to fetch up to Can$300,000 (S$367,000).
^Steve Murti (2012-11-13). "Long unseen, 'Radium Mine' by Group of Seven great A.Y. Jackson has nuclear significance". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on 2012-11-17. Retrieved 2012-12-02. Jackson painted the work, along with one other now hanging in the National Gallery of Canada, during a 1938 visit to the Northwest Territories mine owned by his friend Gerald LaBine. The operation was on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake, about 440 kilometres northwest of Yellowknife.
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