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    "Saint Joachim's Valley". It later developed into the Czech name Jáchymov. Jáchymov is located about 15 kilometres (9 mi) north of Karlovy Vary, on the...
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    Nový Jáchymov is a municipality and village in Beroun District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants. Nový...
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    ore from Jáchymov, several scientists started to isolate radium in small quantities. Later, small companies purchased mine tailings from Jáchymov mines and...
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    the historic mining and spa town known as Joachimsthal, the modern-day Jáchymov, on the Czech side of the mountains, where F. E. Brückmann described the...
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    Retrieved on 5 November 2016. Welcome to Jáchymov: the Czech town that invented the dollar. The tiny town of Jáchymov was just named one of Unesco's newest...
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  • Metarauchite is a member of the autunite group, found at the Jáchymov ore district (type locality), Czech Republic and in Schneeberg, Germany. The autunite...
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    Teplou Horní Blatná Jáchymov Ostrov Toužim Valeč Žlutice Kojšovice Kosmová Abertamy – Boží Dar – Horní Blatná – Mining Landscape Jáchymov Mining Landscape...
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    the mountain and a 24 meter high lookout tower. From the south side, the Jáchymov - Klínovec chairlift leads to the top (length 2,168 m and elevation 480...
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    Darkov Františkovy Lázně (German: Franzensbad) Hodonín (German: Göding) Jáchymov (German: Sankt Joachimsthal) Jeseník (German: Gräfenberg) Karlova Studánka...
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    extracted from the Habsburg silver mines in Joachimsthal, Bohemia (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic) in the Ore Mountains, and was used as a coloring...
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