I actually enjoy the sound of the Geiger counter lol. Seeing this video really makes me wanna start collecting fluorescent rocks now ☺️ great filming Dan thanks for taking us along. Also that lazer beam seam you highlighted was probably my favorite part of the video, it looked so cool.
10,000 comments about how annoying the Geiger counter was, I want more! Thank you for an amazing video. My 11 year old son and I have been playing with fluorescence of rocks and minerals. It keeps him interested, and he loves showing his friends.
Dan, these collab videos you guys are doing are really great for any number of reasons, and I'm glad y'all share so much chemistry (pun intended) with each other cuz the content you all make is great, little pictures from different perspectives. Thanks so much, the UV light at the end w/ the 80s-esque electronica was perfect!
A new wrinkle , Vanadium , associated with a granite pegmatite . I wonder what the beryllium content is ? Beryl plus Vanadium ( and / or Chromium ) = the possibility of Emerald . Vanadium is fairly commonly associated with Uranium and Thorium , although it might have been picked up as an interaction between the Granite body and any Mafic / Ultramafic country rocks . I am also curious to know how much of that brilliant green fluorescence is actually Autunite , and , how much ( if any ) , might be Hyalite from weathering of feldspars ? This is a common feature of many granite pegmatites. Yes , white granites are typically rich in Uranium , and , Radon is a product of Uranium's natural decay chain . Black shales are often also rich in Uranium , and therefore , also Radon . If you ever feel the need to get banned from a home improvement store , bring in a detector and check their granite countertop samples , lol . They should give discernable counts above background , and might start a panic , given the typical ignorance of the public about such things .
Along the obvious applications Uranium also has a bit of forgotten use to colour glass and ceramics. I found a piece of Vaseline glass on and old dump which contains SodiumdiUranate, it glows bright yellow/green unther UV light. The romans already used Uranium as a brown/orange glaze and from the late 19th century up to 1940 Vaseline glass was produced. Nile Red made a youtube on making Uranium glass.
Tres cool! All the hallmarks of a lost episode of Star Trek. Weird vegetation, Martian landscape, high tech scanners, caves of glowing rocks, weird elements we've never heard of, even some tritanium. Just warning, don't step in any Gorn poop.
My mother's cousin was a geologist in Moab circa 1952. Called my dad in Northern CA to come out and go uranium mining. At six years old I would camp out in an army tent at the mines my dad worked. My dad and Marlowe Smith struck the claim to what became the Rio Algum Lisbon Valley Mine. My dad gave his share away in 1962..so close yet so far..mine operated 17 years 24/7..LOL...
Thats why there have always been miners. Its not just your typical precious metals that are mined. Just about every product you purchase has minerals that were extracted by mining. Great video Dan. Merry Christmas to everyone!
Cool to see you found vanadium. Stryten Energy in Georgia usa is working to develop Vanadium flow batteries . Once these batteries are perfected I would expect that metals value to spike. Great work Dan
Reminds of of when you could buy rockhounding sample boards as a kid in the 60's. Piece of cardboard with various bits of crystals and such glued to it. Including a chunk of radioactive ore.
Wished I knew you were in my state!! I'm in the north central area in Chico, north of Sacramento, but south of Redding. 😅 A gold community of it's own.. and then some. Beautiful area, lots of agriculture and history. 🤠 Happy Holidays... 🎄☃️🌟🎁❄️
U235 is the isotope used in bombs. It constitutes less than 1% of natural Uranium, is more radioactive, and can sustain a chain reaction. Separating it from its less-active U238 cousin was a *huge* "deal" during the Manhattan project. These days, they use gas centrifuges, but initially, in a secret project at Oak Ridge, they ran massive numbers of "Cal-U-Trons" which were basically mass-spectrometers that were "tuned" to slowly separate the two isotopes. They had dozens and dozens of these machines, and they'd have to cycle the output back on itself many many times to get adequate separation.
Great video Dan I really enjoyed the information on the vanadium which I have some experience with while working in a steel mill, we used the vanadium for alloying the steel mostly when making tool steels.
Thank you Dan for making videos that brighten my day. With so much darkness in my life, I enjoy your videos tremendously. Every video makes my day a little better as I slowly die. Thanks again Dan for you are a great part of my day to day life.
Dan, the secret of white light LED's is that the actual LED is a high efficiency ultraviolet LED and it is surrounded with phosphorescent elements that glow and produce the actual white light you see. Turn it off and you will see the phosphorescent material continue to glow for a short time.
Those barrel cactus with the red spines you filmed are amazing, they get really HUGE beautiful flowers that are typically ultra dark red or insanely bright yellow and often upwards of 7 inches across when fully opened. I need to get a new cactus sometime. It'd be funny to grow some San Pedro cactus but I'd be too tempted to use it as more than a plant.. and I think I'll stick to weed for that thank you. (I don't need a 4 hour dose!) Something that fluoresces that same blue is scheelite.. tungsten ore which is commonly found around rare Earth minerals and uranium. (I did research since the last video.. I'm autistic, I can't help it.. I research anything that interests me)
Hey Dan. We have plants and mushrooms that glow with a black light. Check out Oregon grape roots. Rub the root on skin and you will glow like body paint. And sulphur tuft shrooms glow green.
Some geiger counters have a more pleasing sound. The lower pitched ones are less annoying. This one is particularly high pitched, so i can see why people might have complained. The handheld GQ geigers have a decent click sound.
I don’t know much about vanadium or geology but on the nuclear engineering side, I can say that one of the two common oxidation states of uranium in ore (and is the oxidation state used in nuclear fuel) is +4 which has a dark green color. +3 is a very pure black. Possible those black deposits are concentrated uranium (concentrated being relative to an engineer with no geology background). Again, no idea about vanadium. Just as likely color is associated with vanadium and not uranium or something else entirely. The other common oxidation state of uranium is +6 and has a yellow color. That’s what gives yellow cake it’s name (a product generated during uranium refining to make fuel or weapons). When an electron jumps from an excited state to its normal position in an orbital, that would be called going from a metastable state to its ground state. During which, it would emit a photon. In the case of the autunite ore, a visible spectrum photon. It might be worth getting an ion chamber or seeing if any local universities that have a nuclear physics department would come out. That’ll tell you exactly what the radiation dose rate is in the mine. Geiger counter just says the radiation present but an ion chamber can quantify the damage the radiation is doing. Although it sounds like someone already has brought an ion chamber out since you had the 24 hours ~ a chest X-ray Not of much interest with the mine being in a desert but rain can make the radiation worse around uranium deposits. The moisture forces radon out of rocks. Radon can also dissolve in water, especially ground water, so it can accumulate in puddles instead of blowing away in the wind or be emitted from wells / springs. Lastly, the pancake probe will be picking up every form of radiation. If you want to get a very rough estimate of the surface concentrations of uranium in a rock, very slowly pan the probe over your rock of interest. Not touching the rock but within an inch (alpha particles have a short mean free path in air [the average distance they’ll travel before disappearing. Probably turning into helium]) of the surface. Take a note of the readings the Geiger counter is reporting. Then cover the probe with a piece of paper, that would probably be sufficient to fully block even the highest energy alpha particles you’d see from uranium ore maybe a couple sheets of paper to be safe. Pan the probe at the exact same distance from the rock and along roughly the same route and note the change in numbers the Geiger is reading. Whatever the difference is how many alpha particles (which loosely translate to uranium decaying per second. It’s probably a factor of 7 high so divide the number by 7 to get a more accurate guess) the rock is giving off. Take that number and divide by 12,444. Whatever number you get at the end is the number of grams of uranium (roughly) at the surface of the rock. If you crush the rock and then spread it into a thin layer and repeat the previous process, you could calculate g/ton from the rock. Disclaimer, this has been mental math so the numbers could be off slightly but it should still give a pretty accurate guesstimate without paying for an assay. Could run an assay and the compare the guesstimate to actual numbers and then be able to adjust the guesstimate accordingly to be more accurate. That also only holds true for uranium ore. If there’s a thorium ore body as well, the number won’t be accurate. Knowing roughly what the ratio of thorium ore to uranium ore would let you adjust the guesstimate to then have it accuracy predict the total concentration of both. The rate the probe was being moved in the video would be way to fast to do this, especially with uranium ore, the Geiger counter will have a high dead time from all the gamma and X rays being emitted. Going slow as a snail gives the most accurate numbers
The Relative Biological Effect is a calculation used to determine cellular damage due to exposure to ionizing radiation ☢ The damage factor for waveform radiation is 1, while the damage factor for PARTICULATE radiation (dust) is 10. From an old Radiographer... ☢👊🇨🇦
Petition to use the phrase "minerals of rare earth". Same meaning because of how English works, less confusion about which adjective goes with what. "Earth" means "ore" in this context, and "rare earth" means the ore has low concentration of the relevant element (is "rare" in its "earth").
Very cool video. The dark material with the fluorescing blue spots resembles some cleiophane I have seen. I would be curious to know what the assay said.
The Franklin and Sterling Hill Mine in Northern New Jersey is the Fluorescent mineral capitol of the world. I visited years ago and it was amazing, some minerals are unique to that area. I'm not sure about uranium or rare earths, but it was beautiful nonetheless. Cheers, Rik Spector
Those minerals are fluorescent but not radioactive, their UV activity comes from complex predominantly zinc content in specific places of the crystal lattice.
I've heard of an instance of a natural nuclear reaction occurring but the circumstances behind its occurrence were supposedly astronomical. Not sure where or when it happened but they say it happened...somehow. I'm gonna go look it up now. Edit: It's a natural nuclear reactor in Gabon, Africa.
6:18 I'm not a scientist so I can't explain the reason, but for fluorescence to take place, a certain balance of mineral levels must be there. For example, willemite (troostite) requires a few percent manganese in order to fluoresce. If there is too little or too much, it will have weak fl or none at all.
Dan, I couldn't believe the price of those XRF guns!!!!! Upward of 28K...wow I hope he can find enough good stuff to pay for it, never mind the cost of maintenance...yikes! You couldn't pay me enough to go anywhere near a Uranium mine! Happy New Year, Rik Spector
I saw green, white, terracotta red and light blue. The green is presumably the Autenite, the white could just have been purer and brighter showings of the same mineral, but presumably there are other minerals there as well?
Dan can I ask you for a mineral that I found in sediment rocks.Its flint or some type of flint that when I point an uv on it,it glows green BUT when I don't point the uv on it for a second it still glows?
Careful taking souvenirs from the desert in some places there are laws against removing natural environments because cholla skeletons and the like are so popular amongst the pet trade for a while ppl were over harvesting not leaving enough for natural wildlife
So, that's where you get the energy (inspiration and radiation) to make your videos. What do you suppose is the half-life of your glowing personality? You have captured a major geological and mining thrill to share. Amazing!
I got to tour a uranium mill in Wyoming when I was about 12 years old. The man, that took my Dad, and I was the head chemist at the mill. He said the raw uranium was much more dangerous to your body than the processed uranium. The raw uranium will kill you.
My Dad, had worked in a uranium mine, in Elliot lake ,Ontario ,Canada. he was told that they used aluminum powder to keep the dust down! No masks were used in the fifties and early sixties.
Thank you for explaining so much in this video. When it comes to radiation, so many people simply do not understand the subject. I am not an expert, but I am aware that it is not only the amounts of radiation, but the type, type of exposure and the grade of the source. Please correct me if I am wrong. When I go to my dentist I sometimes fight and argue when they put the lead apron on me for the x-rays. I know that I am still going to get a decent dose of radiation due to the "scatter effect" and that the apron really does very little. Sometimes that assistants will still insist that I wear the damn thing though. lol
I actually enjoy the sound of the Geiger counter lol. Seeing this video really makes me wanna start collecting fluorescent rocks now ☺️ great filming Dan thanks for taking us along. Also that lazer beam seam you highlighted was probably my favorite part of the video, it looked so cool.
10,000 comments about how annoying the Geiger counter was, I want more! Thank you for an amazing video. My 11 year old son and I have been playing with fluorescence of rocks and minerals. It keeps him interested, and he loves showing his friends.
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I think the Geiger counter is such a great thing to have to show that it really is radioactive. And to show the hottest spots. Great vid!
What a way to light up Christmas! And it's all natural!
Dan, these collab videos you guys are doing are really great for any number of reasons, and I'm glad y'all share so much chemistry (pun intended) with each other cuz the content you all make is great, little pictures from different perspectives. Thanks so much, the UV light at the end w/ the 80s-esque electronica was perfect!
A new wrinkle , Vanadium , associated with a granite pegmatite . I wonder what the beryllium content is ?
Beryl plus Vanadium ( and / or Chromium ) = the possibility of Emerald .
Vanadium is fairly commonly associated with Uranium and Thorium , although it might have been picked up as an interaction between the Granite body and any Mafic / Ultramafic country rocks .
I am also curious to know how much of that brilliant green fluorescence is actually Autunite , and , how much ( if any ) , might be Hyalite from weathering of feldspars ? This is a common feature of many granite pegmatites.
Yes , white granites are typically rich in Uranium , and , Radon is a product of Uranium's natural decay chain .
Black shales are often also rich in Uranium , and therefore , also Radon .
If you ever feel the need to get banned from a home improvement store , bring in a detector and check their granite countertop samples , lol .
They should give discernable counts above background , and might start a panic , given the typical ignorance of the public about such things .
Hmmm! Now that sounds like a plan for my next trip to Home Depot! 👍😁
That cave looks so cool when you shine it with that UV light! I've explored a lot of Uranium mines, but I've never seen one glow like THAT!
You got my 'subscription many years back. Now it's all just fun.
Along the obvious applications Uranium also has a bit of forgotten use to colour glass and ceramics. I found a piece of Vaseline glass on and old dump which contains SodiumdiUranate, it glows bright yellow/green unther UV light. The romans already used Uranium as a brown/orange glaze and from the late 19th century up to 1940 Vaseline glass was produced. Nile Red made a youtube on making Uranium glass.
You Tuber "Radioactive Drew" collects radioactive glass and dinnerware.
"Absolutely mesmerizing footage inside the Uranium Mine - a true spectacle of the surreal and otherworldly! 🚀 #UnrealBeauty #UraniumMineAdventures"
Tres cool! All the hallmarks of a lost episode of Star Trek. Weird vegetation, Martian landscape, high tech scanners, caves of glowing rocks, weird elements we've never heard of, even some tritanium. Just warning, don't step in any Gorn poop.
My mother's cousin was a geologist in Moab circa 1952.
Called my dad in Northern CA to come out and go uranium mining.
At six years old I would camp out in an army tent at the mines my dad worked.
My dad and Marlowe Smith struck the claim to what became the Rio Algum Lisbon Valley Mine. My dad gave his share away in 1962..so close yet so far..mine operated 17 years 24/7..LOL...
I love the different colours.. i want some glowy rocks now thanks 😊
Like a dark ride at an amusement park but the real deal. Cool!
It looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. Really cool!
Though that was you shopping at superstore. Couldn’t recognize you without the hat haha. Noticed the hoody and beard.
Thats why there have always been miners. Its not just your typical precious metals that are mined. Just about every product you purchase has minerals that were extracted by mining. Great video Dan. Merry Christmas to everyone!
It's very interesting how the different minerals glow a different color
Cool to see you found vanadium. Stryten Energy in Georgia usa is working to develop Vanadium flow batteries . Once these batteries are perfected I would expect that metals value to spike. Great work Dan
Some things you look for I've never heard of. But I enjoy learning about it with you.
Reminds of of when you could buy rockhounding sample boards as a kid in the 60's. Piece of cardboard with various bits of crystals and such glued to it. Including a chunk of radioactive ore.
I still remember mine.
@@edrightnow2453which mine? 😂
Wished I knew you were in my state!! I'm in the north central area in Chico, north of Sacramento, but south of Redding. 😅 A gold community of it's own.. and then some. Beautiful area, lots of agriculture and history. 🤠
Happy Holidays... 🎄☃️🌟🎁❄️
U235 is the isotope used in bombs. It constitutes less than 1% of natural Uranium, is more radioactive, and can sustain a chain reaction. Separating it from its less-active U238 cousin was a *huge* "deal" during the Manhattan project. These days, they use gas centrifuges, but initially, in a secret project at Oak Ridge, they ran massive numbers of "Cal-U-Trons" which were basically mass-spectrometers that were "tuned" to slowly separate the two isotopes. They had dozens and dozens of these machines, and they'd have to cycle the output back on itself many many times to get adequate separation.
Not to mention the science and precision it took to get it to critical mass to even have a fission reaction
Not to mention the science and precision it took to get it to critical mass to even have a fission reaction
My day loved this kind of stuff. Must be why he named me ytterbrium Bremsstrahlung
Welcome to Cali guys....good to have you here, this was a super cool segment....keep rockin the minerals, Dan.
Your definitely on a list
im a collecter of different mineral and radioactive specimens. one day id love to actually explore one of these mines
All of your videos are amazing, I like when you are with Jason and Harry. All of you are very interesting and know your stuff ! Thank you for sharing.
Great video Dan I really enjoyed the information on the vanadium which I have some experience with while working in a steel mill, we used the vanadium for alloying the steel mostly when making tool steels.
The videos with Jason and harry are so great I love the collab videos
The sound of the geiger counter is awesome. People just like to complain 😂
Hey Dan have you seen the Rover surface pictures of mars showing gold veins could you imagine
Thank you Dan for making videos that brighten my day. With so much darkness in my life, I enjoy your videos tremendously. Every video makes my day a little better as I slowly die. Thanks again Dan for you are a great part of my day to day life.
Those colours are amazing.
I found this video extremely informative! I always learn something watching your videos but this was a cornucopia of information. Very cool!
Very cool!
Dan, the secret of white light LED's is that the actual LED is a high efficiency ultraviolet LED and it is surrounded with phosphorescent elements that glow and produce the actual white light you see. Turn it off and you will see the phosphorescent material continue to glow for a short time.
Really cool stuff!!
Merry Christmas to Harry, Jason and the rest of the gang as well!
That dark or is definitely uraninite I’m jealous. I’d love that sample.
This is so cool, love it!
Those barrel cactus with the red spines you filmed are amazing, they get really HUGE beautiful flowers that are typically ultra dark red or insanely bright yellow and often upwards of 7 inches across when fully opened. I need to get a new cactus sometime. It'd be funny to grow some San Pedro cactus but I'd be too tempted to use it as more than a plant.. and I think I'll stick to weed for that thank you. (I don't need a 4 hour dose!) Something that fluoresces that same blue is scheelite.. tungsten ore which is commonly found around rare Earth minerals and uranium. (I did research since the last video.. I'm autistic, I can't help it.. I research anything that interests me)
Wow. What a cool place. Tnx for showing
Amazing colors especially that blue. That was neat to see. Cool stuff brother.
I like the sound of the Geiger counter.
I watch ALL of your channels never stop
Hey Dan. We have plants and mushrooms that glow with a black light. Check out Oregon grape roots. Rub the root on skin and you will glow like body paint. And sulphur tuft shrooms glow green.
Have a question, does uranium glass wear give off radiation or is it safe to be around if you have a cabinet full in your dining room .
Vanadium is used in special alloys.
I collect uranium glass. I would live to have a piece of rock that glows.
dan's web page !
Did you have to use a black light to get them to glow
So my granite countertop would set off a Geiger counter? The Uraninite looks like something from Pandora.
I like the Geiger counter sound.
Some geiger counters have a more pleasing sound. The lower pitched ones are less annoying. This one is particularly high pitched, so i can see why people might have complained. The handheld GQ geigers have a decent click sound.
I don’t know much about vanadium or geology but on the nuclear engineering side, I can say that one of the two common oxidation states of uranium in ore (and is the oxidation state used in nuclear fuel) is +4 which has a dark green color. +3 is a very pure black. Possible those black deposits are concentrated uranium (concentrated being relative to an engineer with no geology background). Again, no idea about vanadium. Just as likely color is associated with vanadium and not uranium or something else entirely. The other common oxidation state of uranium is +6 and has a yellow color. That’s what gives yellow cake it’s name (a product generated during uranium refining to make fuel or weapons).
When an electron jumps from an excited state to its normal position in an orbital, that would be called going from a metastable state to its ground state. During which, it would emit a photon. In the case of the autunite ore, a visible spectrum photon.
It might be worth getting an ion chamber or seeing if any local universities that have a nuclear physics department would come out. That’ll tell you exactly what the radiation dose rate is in the mine. Geiger counter just says the radiation present but an ion chamber can quantify the damage the radiation is doing. Although it sounds like someone already has brought an ion chamber out since you had the 24 hours ~ a chest X-ray
Not of much interest with the mine being in a desert but rain can make the radiation worse around uranium deposits. The moisture forces radon out of rocks. Radon can also dissolve in water, especially ground water, so it can accumulate in puddles instead of blowing away in the wind or be emitted from wells / springs.
Lastly, the pancake probe will be picking up every form of radiation. If you want to get a very rough estimate of the surface concentrations of uranium in a rock, very slowly pan the probe over your rock of interest. Not touching the rock but within an inch (alpha particles have a short mean free path in air [the average distance they’ll travel before disappearing. Probably turning into helium]) of the surface. Take a note of the readings the Geiger counter is reporting. Then cover the probe with a piece of paper, that would probably be sufficient to fully block even the highest energy alpha particles you’d see from uranium ore maybe a couple sheets of paper to be safe. Pan the probe at the exact same distance from the rock and along roughly the same route and note the change in numbers the Geiger is reading. Whatever the difference is how many alpha particles (which loosely translate to uranium decaying per second. It’s probably a factor of 7 high so divide the number by 7 to get a more accurate guess) the rock is giving off. Take that number and divide by 12,444. Whatever number you get at the end is the number of grams of uranium (roughly) at the surface of the rock. If you crush the rock and then spread it into a thin layer and repeat the previous process, you could calculate g/ton from the rock. Disclaimer, this has been mental math so the numbers could be off slightly but it should still give a pretty accurate guesstimate without paying for an assay. Could run an assay and the compare the guesstimate to actual numbers and then be able to adjust the guesstimate accordingly to be more accurate. That also only holds true for uranium ore. If there’s a thorium ore body as well, the number won’t be accurate. Knowing roughly what the ratio of thorium ore to uranium ore would let you adjust the guesstimate to then have it accuracy predict the total concentration of both. The rate the probe was being moved in the video would be way to fast to do this, especially with uranium ore, the Geiger counter will have a high dead time from all the gamma and X rays being emitted. Going slow as a snail gives the most accurate numbers
Greetings from the BIG SKY. I'd bet there's a bunch of that stuff on Fort Peck .
I would love to be able to afford a bunch of the rock to set up in a aquarium with a black light,to have that beautiful color at night.
Thanks for the. Trip. Great information and education.
The Relative Biological Effect is a calculation used to determine cellular damage due to exposure to ionizing radiation ☢ The damage factor for waveform radiation is 1, while the damage factor for PARTICULATE radiation (dust) is 10.
From an old Radiographer... ☢👊🇨🇦
Relax folks, it U238 non fissile and not U235 fissile grade. Dan might glow in the dark now but he won't explode.
Here in France we get 63% of our power from nuclear plants.
Petition to use the phrase "minerals of rare earth". Same meaning because of how English works, less confusion about which adjective goes with what.
"Earth" means "ore" in this context, and "rare earth" means the ore has low concentration of the relevant element (is "rare" in its "earth").
Very cool video. The dark material with the fluorescing blue spots resembles some cleiophane I have seen. I would be curious to know what the assay said.
Dan do you use a dosimeter to determine your exposure to radiation?
👍👍… Merry Christmas everyone and to Dan and his family 🤝🍻🎄🎄🎄
The Franklin and Sterling Hill Mine in Northern New Jersey is the Fluorescent mineral capitol of the world.
I visited years ago and it was amazing, some minerals are unique to that area.
I'm not sure about uranium or rare earths, but it was beautiful nonetheless.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Those minerals are fluorescent but not radioactive, their UV activity comes from complex predominantly zinc content in specific places of the crystal lattice.
@@karlgunterwunsch1950 Thanks for clarifying my remarks
That’s true, I had forgotten.
Very useful and informative guys...God Bless You Merry Christmas and happy New year..🇮🇩
Uranium fever has done and got me down
Uranium fever, it's spreadin' all around
With a Geiger counter in my hand
I've heard of an instance of a natural nuclear reaction occurring but the circumstances behind its occurrence were supposedly astronomical. Not sure where or when it happened but they say it happened...somehow. I'm gonna go look it up now.
Edit: It's a natural nuclear reactor in Gabon, Africa.
There's a conspiracy that it could be a ancient reactor. Which is pretty much debunked but that's how improbable it is.
Hmmmm.... you may have just given me an idea. Cheers Dan!
Dan another great year of videos! I wanted to wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas!!!
FASCINATING!
Yep, uranium is everywhere. Where I grew up, everyone had radon and CO2 sensors in their houses
Merry Christm Dan! From the Gossen subdivision at Gossan Cr.
Certain carbon steels have vanadium in it. The alloys make the carbon steels extremely tough and help create a very sharp edge.
6:18 I'm not a scientist so I can't explain the reason, but for fluorescence to take place, a certain balance of mineral levels must be there. For example, willemite (troostite) requires a few percent manganese in order to fluoresce. If there is too little or too much, it will have weak fl or none at all.
Dan,
I couldn't believe the price of those XRF guns!!!!! Upward of 28K...wow
I hope he can find enough good stuff to pay for it, never mind the cost of maintenance...yikes!
You couldn't pay me enough to go anywhere near a Uranium mine!
Happy New Year,
Rik Spector
Some of the XRF guns go for $50k+++. Gulp!
@@jamesriggsdds2337 up to 100k depending on the type of
Material your researching
At some point you need to get Cody's Lab involved in some of the chemistry end of it all.
damn smart kid.
glowing caves with Dan Hurd nice
Radioactive Drew has visited old Uranium mines in other locations, and some had high levels of Radon.
Dan, Pronunciation lesson of the day...its nuc lear!!!!!!!
If I said it wrong, my apologies, and remember people from different areas say things slightly differently,
Merry Christmas Dan to you and the family...
I saw green, white, terracotta red and light blue. The green is presumably the Autenite, the white could just have been purer and brighter showings of the same mineral, but presumably there are other minerals there as well?
Did you get that UV light at the Abbotsford Gem show back in May, there was dealer selling that design one row down from your booth.
Live nysic with glowing rocks. Learned to thanks
AWESOME! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Time for a new hat Dan. Or is that the new air conditioner setting?
Vanadium was present in the real Damascus steels in super small amounts. They think it is part of what gave it such great strength and flexibility.
stunning!
Dan can I ask you for a mineral that I found in sediment rocks.Its flint or some type of flint that when I point an uv on it,it glows green BUT when I don't point the uv on it for a second it still glows?
Careful taking souvenirs from the desert in some places there are laws against removing natural environments because cholla skeletons and the like are so popular amongst the pet trade for a while ppl were over harvesting not leaving enough for natural wildlife
So, that's where you get the energy (inspiration and radiation) to make your videos. What do you suppose is the half-life of your glowing personality? You have captured a major geological and mining thrill to share. Amazing!
Merry Christmas from the Netherlands
I got to tour a uranium mill in Wyoming when I was about 12 years old. The man, that took my Dad, and I was the head chemist at the mill. He said the raw uranium was much more dangerous to your body than the processed uranium. The raw uranium will kill you.
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
One would be wise to wear a breathing maske in an environment filled with uranium dust.
Nah, how else is a person going to achieve that "healthy glow"?
My Dad, had worked in a uranium mine, in Elliot lake ,Ontario ,Canada. he was told that they used aluminum powder to keep the dust down! No masks were used in the fifties and early sixties.
Leave the Geiger sound on when it ticks louder we know we got the good stuff! Love the video..
Whoa,Whoa,Whoa.What?This is in CALIFORNIA!!!!!!
You should link your friends in the description section. I usually can't read them when you put them on screen.
Thank you for explaining so much in this video. When it comes to radiation, so many people simply do not understand the subject. I am not an expert, but I am aware that it is not only the amounts of radiation, but the type, type of exposure and the grade of the source. Please correct me if I am wrong. When I go to my dentist I sometimes fight and argue when they put the lead apron on me for the x-rays. I know that I am still going to get a decent dose of radiation due to the "scatter effect" and that the apron really does very little. Sometimes that assistants will still insist that I wear the damn thing though. lol