URANINITE  (Pitchblende)

Natural Uranium Rock  11.7 oz weight (big!)

Found June 2017, at Lisbon Valley UT

RADIATION:  28,000 CPM, measured with

a standard "pancake probe."

 

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URANINITE creates special interest, because

huge  supplies of this type of rock were

available to Hitler and the German Nazis during

WWII; but Hitler had NO INTEREST in nuclear

energy; he called it "Jewish physics," so

Heisenberg and other nuclear scientists

used none of it to work towards uranium-based

nuclear weapons during WWII.

 

This rock originated near the town of Moab

Utah, at the southeastern corner of Utah.

A whiskey-drinking geologist, CHARLEY STEEN,

discovered the largest deposit of Uraninite

at the Lisbon Valley mining area, 40 miles

S.E. from Moab, around 1950. The Lisbon

Valley area is among the top five uranium areas

in the USA.

 

In August 2021, GABBY PETITO, the young

blonde from Florida, and her murderous

boyfriend, visited Moab Utah during their

adventurous road tour of the western states.

I speculate that they traveled to Moab to

visit the famous "Shin-A-Rub" uranium mine,

located just eight miles north of Moab, near

the paved highway leading to the I-70 Utah

interstate freeway.  Shin-A-Rub is famous for

its "glow-in-the-dark" uranium rocks.

 

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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.
 

 

Stephen Buggie, Ph.D.

Univ. of New Mexico, Gallup

Gallup NM 87301-6979