Uranium Found Using EPA Map in Poison Canyon New Mexico
Uranium Found Using EPA Map in Poison Canyon New Mexico
While I was out visiting the Trinity Site this year I stopped by Grants, New Mexico to do a quick exploration of the Poison Canyon uranium mining area. I looked at this specific area because of an EPA report I read that had some aerial radiological surveys done. So I was curious as to how radioactive these areas would be and what the quality of the uranium would be there that I could easily find in the ore dumps. I’m planning on coming back to the area again to do a more detailed exploration when I have the time.
If you are looking for some uranium ore check out uraniumstore.com
8:20 filter the oar using nitric acid… old way, manually crushing it by hand and hand picking out sand stone flakes…
Can you do a video of what the numbers mean? Like a #, = how many x-rays would it be or the danger level. Great videos.
Love to watch your formative videos. Would it be possible to utilize the mSivert scale the next time you go out scouting? I use a gamma scout detector and read that either rotogens or micro siverts show the decay rate strength rather than the counts per second or per minute.
What is the yellow on the rocks you picked up. We were near some old gold mines near the Phoenix valley and found a rock with yellow (absolutely not gold😂) on one side, thought it was sulfur.
With a name like "Poison Canyon", you know it’s going to be interesting!
Dhs must love you at the border 😂
I wasn’t aware of a hot area that I had a hot exposure causing health issues. It wasn’t until further testing that the exposure was discovered. Please be careful, plus life long dosage, has a definable affect.
My first visit to a nuclear reactor was when I was 11. My neighbor was a nuclear physicist who had a lab at Brookhaven.
Brecciated kimberlite pipes.
I grew up in that area and I can tell you that the Uranium pilings left on the side of the road were 15 ft. high in some areas. Left there for many years by Kerr McGee Mining Corp. As children, we used to play King of the Mountain on top of these pilings. It wasn’t the Aquafor that was contaminated at first, but the Rio Puerco River that ran at a very close range from these pilings soon contaminated the river when it rained the runoff quickly poured right into it. All our livestock were becoming tragically ill from the exposure as well as the people that lived off the river and depended on it for drinking and cooking. It was a very traumatic event when we noticed the river water’s color had changed dramatically and we didn’t know why our sheep were being born deformed or very sick and died. Kerr McGee burned the people settling with them for damages for just thousands of dollars. These were very poor and desperate people and were easily persuaded. and took the money offered to them. Very sickening. Do you Mr. even know the details before you make such bland assumptions? You know nada!
Some ventilation practices from the time…
https://youtu.be/aOcQaLBbGLs
I believe that the groundwater can be affected by the residues of mining, it does make a difference whether it is still inbeddet in the rock or is scattered over a large area where is subject to erosion
Asking for a friend if he can buy some of those rocks 🪨 he is building a nuclear reactor in his shed and needs uranium 😊
Ahhh! Gates and fences, welcome to Utah.
I give your show a glowing report.
For the record, you taco would have gotten up that no problem 🙂
These readings are not great, not terrible.
7:30 – It’s probably not just about the radon. Even with perfect ventilation, when processing uranium ore dust is produced. Back in the 50s and 60s there wasn’t so much safety measures for the workers and those poor lads inhaled a lot of the radioactive dust. This problem has happened basically in every uranium mine of that time period even until today, all over the world. And by the way, the same goes for uninformed tourists climbing and hiking in those radioactive ore dumps. Even small amounts of inhaled dust can cause lung cancer, even years or decades after visiting those sites. Stay safe, and thanks for highly informational videos like this!
crazy
Gente vamos fazer o youtube dominado por JESUS!
Cole isso em todos os vídeos que você vê!
💛ELE VIVE💛
🔥ELE ESTÁ VOLTANDO🔥
fixa????
Bad so the purpose of this video is for what? Exposing yourself to, radioactive, uranium, exposure to? Why? Irradiating yourself for YouTube videos? Why? Do you hate life? Do you love cancer? Are you, radio logically, logical? I’m not thinking so? Do you like to stare death in the face? And breathe in its, radioactive dust? That will remain in your lungs for the next 120,000 years? As if your lungs could work that long? They won’t be working much longer. Not when You’ve taken a nice big deep fresh breath of, uranium dust. It cures lung function. And so you don’t have to worry about breathing anymore! You won’t be. It’s that simple.
Yeah radioactivity. Not for the faint of heart. Or teenagers.
RemyRAD
Hey could I go mine enough to then cause problems. Just curious.
I live in New Mexico and as ive gotten older I’ve been wanting to go exploring more of these sites .
You should really use some gloves when handling radioactive rocks.
Youre videos are awesome man. Im prospecting for rare earth elements in canada right now and using a scintillometer/geiger counter.
Thats insane. I see why alot of Navajos die from cancer. The water out there is bad. The livestock drink the water.
Very exciting
With the carnotite just right on the surface of the flood channel/stream bed there, I’m not surprised at all that there’s radioactive elements in the water table. Anybody who says it’s just because of mining is either ignorant, malicious, or delusional
Hey Drew I really like your videos. I have a few questions I am still so new to this. All the information I have is from videos on here. A few questions I have is. Say I have a ore sample that’s 1000CPM. how long would I have to say hold it look at it. With rubber gloves on and a face mask to stop the dust. Before the radiation could affect me. ? Thanks I plan on keeping it in a Lead Pig too
I’m curious about the hot rock with 112000 CPM. I did some conversions and I resulted with 22400 μSv/hr. In one video you said one dental x ray gives you a dose of 5 μSv. So how dangerous is the rock you show in this video? If you held it for an hour would you really receive the equivalent of 4480 dental x rays? Although my math may be completely wrong I’m new to learning about this stuff 😅
It wasn’t just Natives that died from these “mining practices”
Now this was cool. My backpack would have been full.
Indigenous People out there used uranium ore for a yellow paint. Not good.
Foolish man.
Hey Drew this might seem odd but do you know anything about yellow cake? I was a Marine Infantryman stationed in western Iraq. If you look on a map where the Euphrates River enters Iraq from Syria you might find Al Qaim. I’m not sure of all of the history of the area but I believe it was the location of a Sadam Hussein attempt at nuclear energy. Maybe before the Iran Iraq war. Not sure on all the history there. I have photographs of these huge dump truck loads of yellow material all around the train station near Al Qaim. As far as the eye could see in some cases. All spaced apart in the desert. I believe there is also a fertilizer plant a few miles from the train station (or at least that is what we were told). I was always curious about that area and if that was indeed “yellow cake” or some other byproduct from it’s production. And if so, were those piles hazardous? Lol.
Would those rocks be noticeably warmer than others that weren’t radioactive?
I wish I could obtain one of these rocks. Unfortunately I can go to New Mexico. So that is just a dream
If cattle grazes there does it get poisoned from pieces of rock and soil that it ingests accidentally while eating grass?
What about people that consume its milk and meat?
Nothing like spending all that money on a Geiger counter. Only to devote 10 minutes of your time. Before having to run off to do stupid shit. So why even make this video when you don’t have the time? You’re supposed to make the time. To produce, something. Other than a fragmented video with a dearth of information. Telling us how big a hurry you are in to go do stupid shit. Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Like we really need to know about the stupid shit. You really don’t need to go do. If you were an actual adult. But you’re not. Just another child in an adult’s body.
Well groovy Tuesday there you cute little cheeky type! You better get along run and play.
RemyRAD
just go to idaho where you can buy homes made from irradiated monsanto slag there.
This is a pretty cool looking place. It’s been years since I was at Trinity last. It was amazing to see history there.. I suppose a leap forward in technology. I’d love to go visit one of these places again, though I imagine my dog would need more protection than I would.
There is nothing worse in a YT video than the "music montage" of boring-ass shit. I see you do the musical montage thing quite a lot. I instantly skip over any parts as soon as I hear the Muzak fire up. Please stop adding ANY music at all to your videos. If you can refrain from subjecting us to music montages, I will subscribe. No more Muzak on youtube videos !!
What was the big sign you were blocking (hiding) on the green gate?
Yellow cake. Ingredients. Awesome
Explorer cartographers identified that certain areas would not have been safe through toponym. This is why they called the area "Poison Canyon."
Can you find the most radioactive water sources that people drink from?
I love deserts and nature, uranium adds a new dimension of excitement to it. Thanks for good videos.
There is some interesting things to learn about and very lovely to see but when you put that reader on a piece and it goes off it would be nice in your editing that you could turn it down and shorten it…I got this terrible ringing in my ears now thanks!
Is it not a worry that some of this will break off / get dust into your body? Maybe its just not enough radioactivity to worry about. Obviously the alpha won’t penetrate the dead skin layer but inside the body is more worrying no?
What happens to the animals who live around there?
6:20 do I see some cell destruction on his fingers ?😂