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.
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Drew, do you have a video discussing the equipment you use, most notably, your Geiger counter?
Asking for a friend if he can buy some of those rocks 🪨 he is building a nuclear reactor in his shed and needs uranium 😊
Now this was cool. My backpack would have been full.
Plus the uranium oxide dust being breathed in
Uranium is not found in water naturally 😊 but it’s one of those things nuke people say to normalize toxic waste I guess don’t worry everything is safe. We didn’t dump anything there
FYI: Check out times are negotiable. I am a herpetologist and look for snakes on the road in the desert all night. I ask for a late check out and I have been given check out as late as 4 pm.
The place is where the hills have eyes….
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.
6:20 do I see some cell destruction on his fingers ?😂
What happens to the animals who live around there?
You can protect your meter by wrapping in plastic wrap. If you get radioactive dust inside, it will throw off your background readings in the future. Yes, your alpha and beta readings will be reduced, but you are just scouting for the hot rocks.
I would bring a laminated chart with you in the field so you can point to the levels. Lot’s of charts available on the web.
I would also bag up your field clothes before you leave the site. Then compare them to your clean clothes when you get home. You could wear a Covid mask as well and see if it gets hot.
A video on EPA radiation exposure limits and a discussion "No Limit Zero Threshold" radiation model would be helpful.
and its not dangerous to handle ?
Wow so cool. I love your truck setup! My question is this 112kcpm on that one rock your found…..is this dangerous? If you had that in your house?
I was of the understanding that anything over 50k cpm was dangerous and definitely stuff over 100k. I definitely wouldn’t be holding a rock reading 113k.
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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.
Is it radon that caused the lung cancer, or rock dust containing uranium and all those lovely decay products of uranium?
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 .
Indigenous People out there used uranium ore for a yellow paint. Not good.
What’s the equivalent mR/hr in your counts per minute?
Would love to buy a radeye b20 but it’s looking like they all run 2,000-3,000. Anyone know where to find it cheaper?
Why do this?
I had an unscheduled stay at St. Mary’s hospital in Grand Junction back in 2003. My room was shared by a uranium miner in his 60’s. He was a mess. Numerous organs failing. His stories corroborated the stereotype; these guys lived hard and played hard.
Wish I could find the paper I read years ago that showed the government knew that radon poisoning was bad if you didn’t vent the mines. Like the Tuskegee experiment letting syphilis run wild they decided to see what would happen if they didn’t properly vent the mines.
Brecciated kimberlite pipes.
Ahhh! Gates and fences, welcome to Utah.
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 !!
8:20 filter the oar using nitric acid… old way, manually crushing it by hand and hand picking out sand stone flakes…
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.
just go to idaho where you can buy homes made from irradiated monsanto slag there.
I am a nuclear physicist and rlllly love your vids!
But idd appreciate to have you not only measure the cpms, but also some Sivert. This is much better comparable and better to calculate with 🙂
And holy crap you’re cinematography is spot on!
Would it not be a good idea to wear gloves when touching samples that hot?
You can filter at least the Radon (tends to come from Granite springs) from drinking water with a Carbon filter. Of course then you have a screaming hot Carbon filter…
Very exciting
I love the comments about the background level. It really tells where you live and explore versus where I am in central/eastern NC where the background level at night is something less than 10 counts per minute and rarely hits 20 during the day.
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.
There is a huge difference between uranium locked in stone compared to a lose tailings pile. The tailings have exponentially more surface area. As well as water can pass through at an exponential rate. And the blasting and refining process unlockes the uranium into dust that much more readily gets into the ground.
crazy
RIP headphone users thanks to this rock
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.
turn down the sound
I live in New Mexico and as ive gotten older I’ve been wanting to go exploring more of these sites .
Cheers…🙏🙏🙏
Any time a rock face is opened during mining that allows the sealled oxidized layer open to the air, r and runoff from groundwater, rain, etc. If the rocks have a lot of sulfides this creates acid which leaches minerals out of the rock, < whatever is in the rocks, like arsnic lead , manganese , iron, coper, Uranium, and that puts these deadly runoff into the environment,. There are many medical studies and histories documenting these medical facts. Heavy radioactivity kills people and stock.. Many indians have died due to uranium mining on Tribal Land, and that land is poisoned to this day.
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I wanna echo all the "great content’ comments. Very smooth editing. Great audio, lovely camera work. Very relaxing and interesting topics and places.
Why you don’t reduce the noise of the meter in the video is beyond me. Cannot watch any more.
I have really enjoyed watching your content. It started with the decommissioning video, and has expanded. Great work!!
Can you sell this stuff?
My grandpa was one of the mining navajos got sick and died from it
They say it passes on genetically so I should be radiant as well 😄
Nothing like inhaling all that radioactive dust in your lungs