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Joachimsthal

A 16th-century name for Jachymov, a town in what is now the Czech Republic that was known for its silver deposits. Coins minted from silver found in Joachimsthal became common throughout the Holy Roman Empire and elsewhere. This coin was called the Joachimsthaler, which was shortened to thaler. This in turn became the origin for the word "dollar."

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The rich mining town of Jachymov became the centre of the action, developing dynamically and attracting not only businessmen, but also scholars.

The First Century OF THE REFORMATION IN THE CZECH LANDS

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Starting in the late Middle Ages, pitchblende was extracted from the Habsburg silver mines in Joachimsthal, Bohemia (now Jachymov in the Czech Republic), and was used as a coloring agent in the local glassmaking industry.

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GEONAS--geodynamic network of permanent GNSS stations within the Czech Republic

In general, presa germana atribuie o deosebita importanta politica vizitei la Paris a domnului ministru de Externe Mitilineu, urmata indata dupa conferinta Micii Antante de la Jachymov si tocmai in timpul cand Anglia era hotarata a rupe relatiunilor cu Rusia Sovietica.

Din relatiile diplomatice romano-franceze. Vizita ministrului de externe Ion Mitilineu in Franta (Mai 1927)

Samples compared include the stibioclaudetite fragment from our X-ray study; claudetite from Jachymov, Czech Republic (University of Arizona Mineral Museum 16128; RRUFF R050313); and leiteite from Tsumeb, Namibia (RRUFF R040011).

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The most notable occurrences worldwide of the five-element-type vein system are Kongsberg in Norway (Bugge 1978; Johnsen 1986), Jachymov in the Czech Republic (Ondrus et al.

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Many of the younger priests and religious were sent to military labor units; others were sent to work in the uranium mines in Jachymov in northern Czechoslovakia.

Telling the story of a brutal time: priest films documentary about Christians in communist Czechoslovakia. (World)

In a valley in Western Bohemia, in the Czech Republic, lies the town of Jachymov. It was here that the silver mines owned by the famous Slik (Schlick) family produced a coin in 1519 which was named the Joachimsthaler, the thaler, which the Americans where to transmute into the dollar.

The legacy of a single currency

In the Ohre rift valley in the Jachymov ore mining district, uranium-rich minerals have been exploited for many years, with little regard for the consequences.