Tyuyamunite Uranium Rock 3.8 Oz 38,700. Cpm and 50 similar items

TYUYAMUNITE Natural Uranium Rock Jurassic Canyon, 18 miles NW from Grants NM (This remote location is merely 12 miles north of the East-West I-40 interstate freeway!) Weight: 3.8 oz. Radiation: 38,700. CPM $32.00 plus $9.50 shipping Tyuyamunite is geologically related to URANINITE, another uranium mineral that is found at Jurassic Canyon. But the BEST places to find Tyuyamunite uranium rocks are geologist Charley Steen's legendary MI VIDA Mine at Lisbon Valley Utah's extensive mining area, located 40 miles southeast of Moab UT. Sometimes over the years, I have been asked by rock collectors to tell about uranium rocks that glow in the dark. It is NOT the uranium content that does the glowing; rather, the "UNDARK GLOW" arises from other minerals that are mixed with the basic uranium. The SHIN-A-RUB uranium mine, located west of Hwy 491, ten miles north of Moab Utah, has glowing uranium rocks in addition to a variety of other uranium minerals; I visited the Shin-A-Rub with another prospector during June 2017. CARNOTITE, at some minefields, contains a small amount of RADIUM, which glows brightly during daytime or night. From the 1920s until the early 1970s, the numbers on wristwatches were coated with Undark radium paint, so the time could be seen on the dial even in darkness. I have a Benrus automatic self-winding wristwatch, made in Switzerland during the 1950s, with radium-painted numerals on the watch dial. The radiation has declined so much that the dial no longer glows; yet, the audible clicks are tremendous when the geiger probe is held closely against the dial's enhanced face. Stephen Buggie, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Univ. of New Mexico, Gallup