$95.00 plus $13.50 shipping
BLACK BIG/HEAVY/ACTIVE
URANINITE-COFFINITE
URANIUM ROCK
$95.00 plus shipping 24.3 oz weight
681 gm weight
ITS A "TEXAS-STYLE"
URANIUM ROCK:
BIG / HEAVY / ACTIVE !
The rock was found, June 2016, at ground
surface, at the Poison Canyon uranium field near Grants NM. Black Uraninite rocks like this one are found most often at Lisbon Valley, at S.E. Utah. In 1952, Texas geologist Charlie Steen applied
his geological discovery theory at his "Mi Vida Mine"
and found an enormous untouched deposit of black pure
uraninite uranium. This type of valuable uranium was
already known in central Europe as "pitchblende," but
Charlie Steen renamed it as uraninite. During the next ten years, geologist Charlie had earned 130 million
dollars at his mine (a billion in today's money). His town
of Moab UT became known as a wealthy town; Steen
held annual parties for the entire town, paid from his
uranium fortune. He donated generously to local schools
and charities, and served three years in the Utah State Senate. Whoever buys this uraninite rock will get a
copy of a 90 minute DVD video, Moab's Uranium Craze.
Today, Moab's uranium boom has ended but the town
has now become a center for mountain biking, being
surrounded by three red-rock national parks. A
Ludlum Model 3 geiger instrument and a standard
44-9 pancake probe assisted in this rock's valuablediscovery. The rock was found on the ground
surface, near the large rock piles that are
characteristic of the Poison Canyon area. The rock's activity level is in the fastest range, relative to other
similar natural rocks and above that of FiestaWare orange plates. Its measured response rate, 223k cpm,
is approximately 7.5 times that detected from Fiesta
Ware ceramic dinner plates crafted during the
FiestaWare uranium era, 1936- 1943. The white
dot, seen in photos, identifies the rock's surface area
with fastest activity.
Weight of rock: 24.3 oz (1 1/2 pounds!)
WHAT TYPE OF MINERAL
IS THE ROCK?
It is very likely black uraninite
mixed with coffinite. Advice from any
geologists who can identify this ore
more precisely will be appreciated. This
handsome rock was made in USA!
HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF
BLACK URANINITE URANIUM
Czechoslovakia in central Europe had
huge reserves of uraninite uranium during
the early years of WWII, and these reserves,
known as "pitchblende," were available to Hitler
and the German Nazis. This became known
to U.S. intelligence, and it made America's
Manhattan Project (1942-45) especially
urgent. Later, around 1950-1970, uraninite
was the top ore in geologist Charley Steen's
most famous uranium mine 30 miles S.E.
of Moab Utah, the Mi Vida Mine.
SOURCES: 1947 Hollywood movie: Manhattan Project
- Beginning or the End; also 1965 set of three
16mm color films, Uranium Craze at Moab Utah.
(Buy this rock, and you will get both DVDs.)
BONUS 40-MINUTE DVD VIDEO,
NOT FOUND ON YOUTUBE!
Enclosed with the uranium rock will be my
original DVD video disk, Poison Canyon Uranium,
dated March 2017 and July 2019. This 40-
minute video provides a narrated video tour
of the NM locale where many rocks can be
found through prospecting. This exclusive DVD
video program is enclosed at no extra cost.
(This video is NOT to be uploaded to YouTube.)
ACTIVITY LEVEL OF THIS ROCK
This rock was measured with a pancake probe on a Ludlum 2200
ratemeter / scaler, the most accurate geiger instrument available.
The rock measures at 223k cpm, which is 7.5 times the average
activity level of orange Fiestaware uranium-glazed plates. With
some geiger instruments, this activity will "pin the needle" of the
meter, at full scale! The terms LOW / MIDDLE / HIGH activity
are by comparison only with other natural uranium rocks; these
terms DO NOT compare any of the rocks with medical,
industrial, or military applications.
ALL FEDERAL AND POSTAL
REGULATIONS ARE FOLLOWED
These regulations allow rock collectors to
own and to mail natural uranium rocks. The
federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
owns uranium fields and allows hobbyist "rock
hounds" to gather rocks at those fields. The
rocks must be properly labeled, and must be
double-boxed when mailed. The federal Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) does not allow any
manufacturing from the rocks without an advance
NRC license. The rock parcels can be mailed to
addresses within the USA but are NOT allowed
to be exported to any foreign country.
SHIPPING COST: ONLY
THE ACTUAL USPS POSTAGE
Some sellers conceal the actual postage
cost; If the actual postage cost is
$0.40 or more below what you paid, I
will fully refund the amount overpaid to your
account, as soon as the package is mailed.
SHIPPING NOTES
I do combined shipping, so look at my other
ads, also. If you order two or more items,
pay the postage as stated in the ad. Then,
when the parcel is mailed, I will refund
any overpayment on postage above
the actual cost of postage. The
parcel will be wrapped and shipped in
accordance with all postal regulations.
The following postal statement
will be affixed to the package:
NATURAL UNPROCESSED ORE
This package conforms to the standards of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission's rules 40.13
and 40.22, as well as USPS Packaging Instruc-
tion 7A and USPS Publication 52, Section 347.22
Price: $95.00 plus $13.50 shipping
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Stephen Buggie, Ph.D.
Psychology Professor Emeritus
Univ. of New Mexico, Gallup