COFFINITE NATURAL

URANIUM ROCK

 

Radiation level:  24,000 CPM;

Found at Jurassic Canyon NM

uranium field     October 2017

Weight:  0.6 oz.

$14.00 + $0.00 shipping

 

COFFINITE is a fairly common uranium

mineral.   Typically, it has scattered

colors of yellow and black on its rock

surface.  Jurassic Canyon NM is the

USA's richest location for uranium

rocks to be found, on or near the

ground surface.

 

Radiation levels above 40,000. CPM are

considered high levels, with regard to

comparison with other natural

radioactive rocks.  This rock, with

24,000. CPM response, is mid-level.

  (NOTE that applications in industrial,

medical, or military uses have far

higher radiation levels than those

found in natural uranium rocks.)

 

ALPHA RADIATION is the radiation type
that is most easily blocked by barriers,
even by clothing, paper, or the skin.
 Alpha radiation is the radiation type that
is most commonly emitted by natural

uranium.   (  By contrast, Gamma ray

radiation, is the "Macho" type of

radiation.  Gamma rays penetrate all

barriers, even metals such as lead.

Gamma rays make space travel difficult,

because cosmic rays in outer space are

mainly gamma radiation. Cosmic radiation

at the ISS space station is 240 times

more intense than natural surface

radiation on Earth;  At the surface of red

planet Mars, the radiation is 730 times

more intense than Earth's surface
radiation. The Gamma Ray Burst of
October 2022, a tightly focused narrow
  beam, traveled 2.4 billion light years to
Earth; it was the most intense energy 
event since the early "Big Bang." That
GRB interrupted low-frequency AM-
radio on Earth for four days.)
 
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Stephen Buggie, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Univ. of New Mexico, Gallup

Gallup NM 87301-6979