NOTE that I will leave home on Friday
November 29th, for a 17 day trip to
test radiation levels of recent lava at
an active Hawaiian volcano. If you buy
any uranium rocks after that date,
it is unlikely that the package
will arrive prior to Christmas Day.

 

TYUYAMUNITE NATURAL

URANIUM ROCK

 

Radiation level:  24,000 CPM;

Found at Uravan Colorado

uranium field     April 2018

$31.00 plus $12.80 shipping.

 

TYUYAMUNITE is a fairly common

natural uranium mineral.  It relates to

another uranium mineral, CARNOTITE.

  Carnotite emerges as a weathered-

version of Tyuyamunite, with yellow

coloration where uranium is visible on

the rock. Typically, it has scattered

colors of yellow and black on its rock

surface.  Both Tyuyamunite and

Carnotite rocks are found nearby in

the same uranium fields, near the

ground surface. Tyuyamunite is

plentiful on the Colorado Plateau, near

Uravan. It is also found throughout the

Jurassic Canyon NM locality. It was

named in 1912 after a region in

Asia's Kyrgyzstan, TYUYA-MUYUN.

This uranium mineral is found at many

places worldwide, including Australia,

New Zealand, Namibia, Central Asia,

Brazil, Czech Republic, Russian

Federation, Ukraine, and India. The

rock does NOT glow florescently

when illuminated with UV light.

 

Radiation levels above 40,000. CPM are

considered high levels, with regard to

comparison with other natural

radioactive rocks.  This rock, with its

24,000. CPM response, is middle-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.)
 

Stephen Buggie, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Univ. of New Mexico, Gallup

Gallup NM 87301-6979