Beryllium Unearthed Part 2-A

Part of The Elements Unearthed Project (www.elementsunearthed.com), this is the first half of Part 2 on the history of the beryllium mine in western Utah including how the bertrandite ore is mined by Brush Engineered Materials, concentrated at the mill near Delta, Utah, and refined into final beryllium metal, alloys, and ceramics at the Elmore, Ohio plant. The hazards of beryllium are also discussed, including Chronic Beryllium Disease (CBD) and how it is prevented at the Delta plant.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• beryllium
• elements
• bertrandite
• beryl
• chemicals
• periodic table
• beryllia
• beryllium ceramics
• beryllilum alloys
• spor mountains
• brush wellman
• brush engineered materials
• brush resources
• chronic beryllium disease
• cbd
• chemical engineering
• delta utah
• elmore ohio

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Fr. Michael DeLisle Lyons, SJ (a Jesuit) of Detroit, Michigan supplied beryllium to the US Government for the initiators of our nuclear weapons from 1945 until his death in 1974 from Chronic Beryllium Lung Disease (Berylliosis). For the rest of the story Google "WWJ, A Jesuit and the Bomb," by me (Jeffrey Allan McQueen . . . Fr. Lyons' nephew).