Metal detecting an old uranium mine town! Uravan Colorado. 
Metal detecting an old uranium mine town! Uravan Colorado. 
Metal detecting the site of the former mine town of Uravan Colorado.
Metal detecting an old uranium mine town! Uravan Colorado. 
Metal detecting the site of the former mine town of Uravan Colorado.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_Flume
Why did you not bring a Geiger counter? It would be interesting to know how radioactive this place is.
Disclaimer ! This is not intended to be an accurate or educational video on this specific site just some fun . Thanks for watching
I was born in Uravan, in a two room wooden shack, when I went their in 83, there was a radiation hazard on that shack, you should have had a geiger counter. My father and grandfather were both uranium miners, and died from silicosis of the lungs, a disease unique to uranium miners.
Agree with most everyone, A Geiger counter would have been a great choice to bring with. There is a story of the Radium Girls from the 1919- through 1939. These girls were exposed to Radium paint and it came from mines in Colorado and Utah. These girls were horribly disfigured from the damage Radium did to their bodies.
If you had a Geiger counter it might have gone off like crazy.
I lived in GJ for 4 years and have been up on Seewemup Mesa above Uravan. Saw numerous mining claim markers and prolific, yellow oxide indicating uranium-rich soil. Meant to look for shed antlers on Atkinson Mesa east side of Hwy. across from Uravan, but never made it up there.
You should really know what you are talkin about before u do a video!! At the beginning of this video, you show what is known as "the hanging flume". Had you stopped n read the plaque there by bedrock and paradox, it would have explained to you how they tried to transport water uphill in this flume to irrigate crops and stuff, Not used at all for transporting ore n surely had no rails. How do i know this, my dad and grampa both worked in uravan in the uranium mines.