URANINITE  (Pitchblende)

Natural Uranium Rock  4.3 oz weight

Found June 2017, at Lisbon Valley UT

RADIATION:  51,000 CPM, as measured with

a standard "pancake probe."

 

$34.00 + $12.80 shipping

 

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.

 

If you buy this rock, or any other rock of

uraninite, I will include this DVD video produced

by the Museum of Moab:  URANIUM CRAZE.

The video has three 30min films produced by

geologist CHARLEY STEEN, who discovered

huge deposits of uraninite at his "MI VIDA

URANIUM MINE," 40 miles S.E. from the

town of Moab.  I spent half a day exactly at

this mine site, gathering the uraninite rocks

there.  The mine entrance appears to be open,

but it is sealed shut by bricks 15-20 ft inside

the entrance.

 

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. There are about 20 abandoned

uranium mines in this region; all are on the

upward sides of a long valley. At most locations,

rockhounds like me gather the radioactive rocks

at the waste piles that are immediately below

the mine's entrance.  The miners toss the waste

rounds down the slope below the entrance.  The

entrance is easily spotted because of its own

wooden frame.

 

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.

 

The $12.80 shipping cost covers any number of

rocks, shipped together in the same package.

For instance, if you buy three rocks and $12.80

is charged on each rock, then $25.60 is the

likely refund. (The refund amount also depends on the shipped package's total weight.)

 

$34.00 + $12.80 shipping

 

 

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