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Total amount of radium produced by country of origin, 1898 to 1928
Origin
Radium production gm
United States
250
Belgian Congo
245
Czechoslovakia (Austria)
45
Portugal
15
Madagascar
8
Russia
6
UK (Cornwall)
5
South Australia
1
Total
575
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Early uranium mining in the United States