Why Is This Area Radioactive Near Joshua Tree National Park
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- Not many people know that there is a uranium deposit very close to the entrance of Joshua Tree National Park. It doesn’t look like this depose has been mined but there has been previous mining explorations into this area.
Coordinates to the exact location of the uranium deposit will be at the end of the video.
Some samples were taken on this trip and if you would like to get one go to uraniumstore.com
#JoshuaTree #uranium #radioactive
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Rufus never felt more alive than when holding the mummified skull of his natural enemy in his teeth! Nice work!
Natural enemy? Really? Man us the cruelest of all species and ignorant to boot.. Lolololp
The desert tortoise is protected. Can't even have the shell after death. Just a heads-up.
Thanks for posting. I did yell at your friend; Get OUT of the hole first, then mess with the turtle! LoL. He probably wasn't as close to the edge as it looked on camera when he was bending over up top to pick it up.
Warm greetings from Poland 👍. I follow all your videos with great interest. It is very interesting where there is radioactivity everywhere. The miners 100 years ago and earlier knew nothing about how dangerous their work was sometimes.
Yeah, mining has always been a dangerous job. The radioactivity from mines isn't that bad. But if you are mining uranium and spend your days down in an unventilated mine, then that could be a problem with the level of radon you are being exposed to...not to mention uranium dust.
As a kid in the 50's I remember TV shows about people prospecting for uranium. Sort of like it being the next big gold rush kind of thing but never really happened. I had almost forgotten about that until finding your channel.
The uranium boom was a gold rush. I need to do an episode on it because the amount the government paid out for uranium was insane.
enjoying your videos. I was stationed in 29 palms for four years. The desert is quite interesting out there. A lot of old proving grounds out there and arizona.
Really like your videos! Love to see you get some tours from land management or go to other countries as well.
Hi drew greetings from Scotland to you my friend....great video thanks take care in there
Thanks Drew!! You are sooooo lucky!
Heya, Drew. I moved to the high desert of New Mexico over 5 years ago. It's hard to explain just how beautiful it is out here to those I moved away from back east. It's not a Needles, CA kind of desert. Certainly there is more vegetation but the adaptation to low moisture by both flora and fauna in this area is incredibly interesting. Never really thought about moving over potential hot-spots but I suppose having a meter would be enlightening. Great videos, btw.
There's a company in Texas that sells the meters online. They even repair broken ones.
Thanks, Judy!
Are you talking about Ludlum? They make some very solid stuff and have been around for a while.
If it's radioactive ☢️ THEN. WHY THE FUCK ARE THESE DUMBASS DIPSHITS CRAWLING AROUND IN THE DIRT KNOWING ITS RADIO TOXIC???? JUST FFING BRILLIANT!!! GODDAMN PEOPLE ARE JUST SO FUCKING STUPID
@@RadioactiveDrew it's your responsibility to fill that hole in with all that loose rock that was dug out of it, all that stuff around the hole came out of it.
Thankyou.
Radioactive anything kills people, slow or fast it kills..
All x-rays are radioactive as well and that builds up in your body friend..Why do you think the x-ray tech's leave the room when they snap an x-ray.
No they are not safe..
When we purchased our house we had it tested for radon and the company said it had the highest readings they ever seen. Come to find out house is built on massive deposit of uranium. ( have radon removal system installed and at safe levels now )
You could probably move 200ft and not be exposed inside a trap of radon gas 🤓
IF it's the US Radon is quite common which is why building codes across the states all require foundation ventilation so it can't build up in the home.
Certified republican voter right here. After 10 years he'll switch to libertarian.
@Radioactive Drew Hi drew, I just visited this location last weekend (nov 18 2022). I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge with us and inspiring me to get out there. I had an exciting time and measured counts as high as 260CPM with my pretty inexpensive Geiger counter. it was my first time encountering any levels beyond background radiation and it was really fun.I took some samples with me, it was hard to discern what rock was actually active since background levels were interfering, I will check each sample soon. I hope to explore more places in the future and learn more from your videos. Best Wishes.
Back in the 70s/80s a new subdivision sprang up East of the nuclear power plant S of Boulder, CO. Young girl fell onto a uranium rock at her knee. She declined rapidly. Died. I'd be getting rid of them. Ask the Navajo at Shiprock, NM. Dr. Laura Shields did much research there.
The biggest killers of the Desert Tortoise are ravens. I've seen ravens beat a tortoise against a rock until their shell busts open, usually from the rear. Softest area. I've also seen the tortoise fall off of a rock that it had climbed up on to warm, over a ridge about 25-30' high and just keep on cruising. That would explain why one shell was broken and the other one not. Tortoises don't usually fall into a mine. I've been on plenty of explores and never encountered any. The little one was probably taken there by the same raven,
Leaving an open shaft like that for animals or even people to fall into is irresponsible of whoever was prospecting or mining there. What a way to die sitting in a hole starving to death in the desert.
@alexburke1899 I agree. These should be filled in or have a makeshift rock wall built around them to keep animals out of.
Love your videos Drew and since I live in CA I should visit that area someday
It’s an interesting area to explore. Just be careful.
You should see what it looks like under Hi UV black light at night.
Interesting visit to the uranium deposit. Would have been helpful to mention the age of the rocks there. The uranium was probably deposited at a later time than the original rocks.
YIKES ! i live across the street (route 62) from where you were. i can actually see the site on the foothill from my front window !
I'm sure you'll be fine. You could always get a Geiger counter and check for yourself.
If you lift up the claim stake, many times you’ll find the can at the bottom with the claim paperwork in it, if it’s not attached out in the open of the stake itself.
I live by there and found green torbinite crystals...
It's nice to see the guy cared about the poor turtles falling in that pit .
Thanks. I was just out to Joshua Tree NP back in March. Too bad I didn't know about the hill while I was there. I did have my geiger counter with me but didn't find anything in the Park.
Some of the bigger rocks in Joshua Tree were a little radioactive. I think there might have been some near Skull Rock.
I grew up near a facility that processed yellow cake, highest cancer rate in the country
A CFO once said to me, "It's always safe, till it isn't." We often don't realize just how little we know about the things we handle.
That would be interesting to investigate further. Mainly to see if it’s from uranium or the chemicals to process it.
That's awesome, I didn't know California had any uranium deposits like that. Makes sense it would be down south though. Are you aware of any uranium mines or deposits in northern California to poke around in?
Thanks for the fantastic videos- really appreciate all the work you invest in these. I have two questions. First, would your Radiacode 102 be useful for a site like this? I’m thinking about wearing one while hiking in similar areas to sniff out potential areas to visit later in more detail. Or do you need to get close with the more sensitive B20 to sense alpha/beta? Second, do you have any experience with using UV lamps to find Uranium minerals? If so, do you use hi, mid, or low-wave UV for uranium? Thanks!
A Radiacode...any model really, would be great to take out to a location like this. The detector in the Radiacode is very sensitive to gamma radiation and all naturally occurring radioactive materials give off gamma radiation. The Radeye B20 is great at narrowing down hot rocks a bit easier than just using the Radiacode. I've done some exploration using a UV light in the 365 nm range. Best results I've found is when the light has a UV pass filter installed. Basically filters out all the visible light and only lets the UV pass through.
My folks talked about a high level U235 found near Bluewater NM.
You're a badass Drew. Thank you
Thanks.
Giant desert tortoise, cool find. Almost as cool as the uranium. I might have to go check this spot out.
Its a cool place to explore. Just be careful and remember there are rattlesnakes and maybe deeper mine shafts out there.
It seems to me that the pinkish rock is not a pure U or Th mineral, or your counter would be roarin'. So I have to ask, what is the host rock? Is it a pink granite? That would probably be a so-called alkaline granite because of the K containing feldspar. I'm curious. Please let us know if you can.
Well, would have been worth knowing about when I used to live there… though I had no one to hike with
Interesting about the Large and Small Tortoise in the same hole. There is of course a remote possibility of facultative parthenogenesis from the tortoise since its a reptile depending on how well it had recently eaten.
Again I ask. What say you about Mr Galen Windsor??
When you found the turtle shells, I was hoping Gamera was down in that pit. Maybe next time.
What is your store site? Looked in the video bio and didn’t see a link. I am on a HAZMAT team and am a HAZMAT Tech and Nuke/Rad Tech. Would love to grab a piece for training purposes. Thanks!
the site is uraniumstore.com
cool place
Drew, Drew radioactive Drew
Setting off the Geiger counter in my room
Where will you take us today
Drew, Drew radioactive Drew
never knew my name had a radioactive area
Do y know if the most of the radioactivity is from Uranium and not Thorium. Much 'Radioaktive deposits' are Thorium.
Hey this is copper mountain lol. I saw a baby tortoise on the path to a mine near here once. Unfortunately you missed a cool horizontal shaft on the next canyon over.
I need to explore that area more. I could see that there was more stuff to see when I flew the drone around.
@@RadioactiveDrew on the back side (north) of the range, there are probably 15 more openings, almost all unmarked with no data that I can find on them.
Are you going to give coordinates to other places you've visited?
I'm thinking that might be something I do moving forward.
Do you know about any uranium mines or deposits in Washington State by any chance?
I’ve heard of one out near Spokane. I believe the USGS has a site on mine data where you can look up that info. Another great site to use is thediggings.com. I’ve used that site to find mines and ID ones I came across.
Yup, there is one, the Midnite uranium mine in Spokane but you can go pick up uranium ore off the mountain side, I have a piece in a glass jar from a hike. (I think it's considered a superfund site)
@@SilvaDreams That's funny, since I left that original comment I went to that site. I didn't find much, I went around the area a bit since it was fenced off. Do you know where you hiked because I would like to head back and pick up an ore sample.
@@omega-delta7685 Oh sorry I should have been a bit more clear, you can hike in the mountains around there and find some on the ground. Of course it is fenced off being s superfund cleanup site though.
As for where I found it I don't remember off hand since it was like 10 years ago when I first moved here.
@@SilvaDreams Ok, interesting. I'm assuming that the route you took was off the beaten path though, and you just went around the mine area in the forest? Also, the sample you found, I'm assuming it was either autunite or carnotite? Thanks.
The reason I don't venture out anymore is because there are just too many people here in SoCal. Too many people sharing the desert, it lost its specialness
Lmao do you just pull over on highways ? Pro tip ... hike away from the people
@@machinegunhippy There is no "away from the people" anymore
@@machinegunhippy And no, even 60+ miles into the Idaho wilderness, or 2-3 days off roading into the Utah desert, there's always some idiot decked out in Patagonia spoiling the peace and quiet with their stupid drones
@@Ndw1995 having been in the desert in socal there absolutely is if you take the time to find it
@@Ndw1995 I hike in borrego all the time, never see people If you know the right hikes
I came here after watching WHY FILES on Tesla death ray. It shows footage of a Joshua tree with a nuclear bomb test.
There’s one thing in my life I don’t miss it’s 29 palms.. lived there in the early 90s as a teen. Horrible place for a kid lol
I'm curious just how much uranium occurs naturally on the surface of our planet?
do you want your sample analyzed for uranium, Thorium, rar earth etc ..?
I might try and do that in the future. I want to build a gamma spec setup.
@@RadioactiveDrew Well I am already all set up and have access to ICP-MS. No charge...up to you
@@Neptunium thanks for the offer, I might take you up on it.
@@RadioactiveDrew Cody has a spectrometer - would be great if you could do a collab with him, as you have common interests.
Thanks for bringing that up. I’m a fan of Cody as well.
Joshua tree is next to 29 palms marine base and the old Kaiser mine is at the other end and then chocolate mountain bombing range, Salton Sea, are you aware the military was doing practice nuclear bomb drops in the salton sea, Navy base still exists on an area of the salton sea, south east side , big birth practice and they realized the weight of uranium, depleted uranium is like 4x heavier than anything ...so they practiced with depleted uranium . Their are munitions factories in the area, as you know , its another world out there, it's over 110 , 8 months a year .
Thanks for sharing. Question for you, what if you built a small hut and lived in it with those rock would that be enough radiation to effect you??
Maybe.
Nice so many samples 👍👍👍 me nothing but background sample 👍👍
Have you visited the Santa Susana meltdown site??
Do share my friend was fire chief there and was first on site for that big fire a few years ago
That a fox skull or a young coyote?
That area is where I crash landed my ship back in 1965
Sell on the store... Is that not illegal? Feels like it might be at least a grey area.
It’s legal as long as you follow the law. Don’t ship it out of the country and don’t ship over a certain amount to one person.
Least you send the love out there.
So why didn't you partially fill the hole in' and at least give any animal a chance. I would have at least had a go.
Tortoise not turtle
just back from a village in Cairngorm mountains in Scotland and they have radon monitors and fans attached to the school building.
(not turtle... desert tortoise) / next time somebody's out there can you make a little wall around the pit so they don't get trapped and die in there
Nice that you guys had that thought 🤙
Hmm I' don't know if I agree seems pretty darn toxic to me, I'd leave it alone not come back.
I would be absolutely shocked if he didn't have serious medical problems as time goes on.
I love J Tree too but why would you take your dogs to look for Radiation lol...
Innocent question. No hate.Why did you go to a radioactive area without a mask, and why take the dogs?
I love the how the dog is looking at you guys from 6:13. "What are they doing? Is that a new toy? Funny sound, but...".
Nice!!!
Well, there are clinics in the Grand Circle region that were offering radiation testing circa 2010 and/or 2016.
I would imagine Ukrainian refugees would have been better near those services than the border regions (here).
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I would rather be in the desert SW than Australia. The SW is a kinder, gentler desert. Not as many deadly critters.
Hope the doggies don’t get cactus thorns in their paws.
Did you manage to fill in the pit...plenty of loose rocks to use?
We unfortunately didn’t have time to do that.
This was also an area where they set off nuclear testing.. !and the dust also blew into Idaho..
My place is right by this location. I can assure you, there was never ant nuclear testing. Lots and lots of 500lb bombs, though.
Thanks for commenting on this as I missed it. Yeah, there was never at nuclear testing in this area. The radiation there is naturally occurring.
When I find death pits I look for flora or rocks that can be build for a ladder or ramp out
The shaft we found was about 6-7 feet deep. It would have taken a while to set something up where a tortoise could easily climb out.
Feel free to head there and build it yourself my friend.
The southwest has thousands of drill holes all over. They still kill critters that can fall in. There was a killer in Nevada that killed two little girls and chopped them up and dropped them down different drill holes. These old mining and drilling locations are a real problem for critters. To what extent, nobody knows.
Why is the background radiation a little high?
Its higher in this area because of the radioactive rocks.
Radioactivity spreads. Radioactive rock transfers its radioactivity to the surrounding rocks. Even the clothes he wore now have trace amounts.
@@domenik8339 Oh, I agree! Radioactivity is contagious to otherwise harmless elements, and should be confined!
@@Bob-yl9pm I think he meant radioactive dust particles spread around.
No, that’s not how it works and that didn’t happen.
Radioactive turtles may hold the answer.
I didn’t even know that was here! Im lm a hop an a skip away from that im live in the Coachella Valley 😊
Hole dug in the 50s and we find two dead turtles...DEATH PIT!
Where did the uranium come from? Volcano? Asteroid? How much uranium does this planet contain? Is there enough radiation to produce nuclear batteries? I've got so many questions but no answers. Inverse square rule for emr applies
Volcano but the origins are all asteroids technically since that is how our planet formed was space dust and rocks coming together. As for how much nuclear material there is well that is hard to figure out but they also theorize that the core of the planet is essentially a giant nuclear reactor of sorts which is why it can stay so hot and fluid.
@@SilvaDreams The nearest star is our sun which has a fusion reaction. What percentage is uranium in the sun,if the various planets have low amount of heavy elements contained in them, came from the sun. What alloys are in the core of the earth which would be iron and uranium to produce the heat and magnetic field? Maybe not just iron but thorium but other transition elements. As a nuclear reaction can go both ways, fusion as well as fission, is the solar system as young as we think? Just a few little questions that may be tricky to answer.
@@keithsyers5833 Well uranium and other heavy elements are created in the heart of suns. Though ours is fairly small in terms of solar masses (It's literally a tiny dot compared to some) so it at it's death will mostly be iron and the likes. What little uranium and the likes that fell into the sun are likely long expired and have become lead or other elements.
I've always thought that pink rock was associated with copper, that's the Copper Mounting Range. The northern side has most of the gold prospects, audits, and mines.
Why not fill in that hole so other wildlife won't fall into it anymore?
Easier said than done.
Losing our desert tortoises more and more.
Why would you bring the dog there?
It was my friend’s dogs and they did fine out there. I think their paws got a little chewed up by the rocks.
Isnt it neat to find stuff you wasnt looking for.
Are you going to do some digging, mining?
No, the grade of ore here is so low it won’t be worth it to mine. It might get better deeper down but that’s hard to say.
BTW, researchers believe that the Mojave tortoise is heading for extinction. Sure hope these mine shafts get covered up soon! th-cam.com/video/5A3HbPhPwq0/w-d-xo.html
Well someone must own this property, ya think?
Maybe...it might be open land.
@@RadioactiveDrew ...there are five acre parcels out there, thousands of them... The government started giving them away in the 30s for anybody who would put a house, i.e, read a shack, on it. Others lots were sold...I just wondered if where you were scrambling was one of those five acre parcels.
I have a place right by there. That Thorium mine was quite productive. When I bought my place back in the day, that side was widely known as Meth Mountain by the realtors. Plenty of break-ins and craziness. Then came the cartels and illegal grows. People shoot lots of guns with the mountain as a backstop. There's a lot of private property mixed with BLM lands out there. Some of those private parcels are more than 100 acres. Many of those folks out there really, REALLY value their privacy. Please be careful and tread lightly.
I have handled Uraninite rocks and you wouldn't know what you were walking on - honestly!!!
After buying a cheapo detector the only interesting things i have found are elevated levels in a section of tree rings at about 4 times background ,,dated to Chernobyl ! and a pebble in my green house at about 7 times background .
Unless you lived near Chernobyl I would be surprised if the radiation from those tree rings would be from that contamination.
@@RadioactiveDrew We were badly contaminated from chernobyl and the windscale fire . The seaweed is still highly elevated from re releases from stored dump waste from eroding mud flats . Its a local scandal , especially as the locals drank the `free` milk that had to be poured away at the time . For decades sheep could not be sold into the food chain either .
Crazy. What area are you from? I would like to investigate it further. Maybe do a video on that side of the world when I come over that way.
@@RadioactiveDrew S.W Scotland ..and look up what was dumped just off the coast in Beaufort's dyke,,super madness.
@@MyKharli I'll have to check it out. I've heard that Scotland has had some pretty bad dumping over the years.
I wouldn't take the dogs and expose them to radiation. Their bodies much smaller and their systems much more sensitive.
He crouched over a radioactive rock and handled it with zero equipment. Gonna be honest, our host's elevator may not go to the top. He says it's fine, yeah it's fine, as long as you don't do it often like he does. The radiation doesn't go away, once you leave, it's effect is cumulative.
Maybe im a coward, but i would be so afraid of rattlesnakes! My dogs are so dumb(but wonderful), I worry they'd attack one!
My geology professor, Dr. Philip Seff, worked in the 50s and 60s for mining companies.
He kept a piece of ore in a cardboard box in his garage.
Many years later he found the box and when he tried to pick it up, the box turned to a flakey dust..
He said it was a nice specimen😂 yea I’d have to agree.
The specimen is from SoCal but he couldn’t remember exactly, but possibly northeast of Bakersfield.
It's the site of an ancient nucular explosion!
I'm just amazed that in a national park you get to just dig and move items and video all with no penalty. And why does no one bring attention to the active uranium mining in the grand canyon?
Well this wasn't in the National Park...it was about a mile outside of it. Also that uranium mine you brought up near the Grand Canyon isn't in the National Park either.
The whole desert is "hot"... I used to live in a little desert town called Beatty NV... It's right on the edge of the Nevada test site where many nuclear"test" were set off by the old AEC.... The whole town is "hot"! Good place to stay away from...☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️
Explains why everyone from NV acts like a nutcase! Between the desert heat and the radioactive build up their brains are cooked!
This was YOUR CALL to fill in this "death pit" with rocks and whatever. DID YOU DO IT?
Are there any other minerals commonly found with uranium deposits? RIP turtles, sad way to go at the hands of humans too lazy to refill their hole.
Is it true Jimmy Page was once radioactive?
Not sure...first I'm hearing about it.
th-cam.com/video/TFi5bLrbBJ4/w-d-xo.html una radiografia o meglio gammagrafia con un campione di pechblenda di Marie Curie
You could have filled it in.
Feel free to do it yourself, I think he posted the coordinates.
Yeah, no one is going to miss that hole.
@@domenik8339 Fkrightoff, it's not exactly "on the way." He was there already, he could have kept other critters from getting stuck - or was that concern just for the camera...
@@mnemosynevermont5524 You don't seem to mind asking someone else to do it, but doing it yourself is out of the question huh? If you ever look around and wonder why the world is so filled with wrongs, take a good long look in the mirror for me.
@@domenik8339
That's some perverse kind of reasoning there - why SHOULDN'T someone who's already there do what needs doing? The world would be a better place if that happened more often. The world is filled with wrongs mainly because of people making up twisted garbage. You are just a troll with no real excuse to be here.
Go Away. Or be removed.
Wolfenite
I'll roll when I can, I'll prep to fill it in, ... The Rad ain't no big deal...
I live near there. There's nothing "beautiful" about it. It's barren and bleak. If you like green and living things you'll hate it. If you like sand and 120° with absolutely no shade you'll like it.
Is it dangerous?
What is BLM ?
Bureau of Land Management.
@@RadioactiveDrew Thanks. I.e. US BoLM
Tragic Turtle 🐢 Tales...sad. Not easy to fill in w/o equipment.
Tortoise! Tortoise! Not a turtle..... Sorry, I lived here in JT so long that I just can't stop correcting people when the say turtle........ LOL........ Enjoy them while you can because the species is pretty much doomed... 😥 The probability is extremely high that that is a coyote skull not a fox although there are kit foxes that live in the region. I personally never seen a fox up here but that doesn't mean there aren't any. ****** Edit: Turns out I was only about a thousand yards from your coordinates when I looked for your location on Google Earth before you posted the coordinates...... Of course I'm a local so know the area..😎😎
I get needs it lab