Tyuyamunite Uranium: Jurassic Canyon 1.8 and 50 similar items

Natural Uranium Rock TYUYAMUNITE Weight: 1.8 oz. Radioactivity: 29,400 CPM $18.00 plus $9,50 shipping via "Ground Advantage" This rock was found at Jurassic Canyon, near Grants NM, during April 2025. I was accompanied by a rockhound uranium collector from Oregon, during a four-day rock collecting visit. The visitor had flown to Albuquerque for this rockhounding adventure. The airlines are strict in banning the carrying of radioactive materials in luggage, so the visitor mailed his rocks back to his home, then traveled with family via his airline. All the mailed boxes arrived safely when the family returned home. Visitors often ask how strong the background radiation is at the uranium field. Normal background is 50-75 CPM, and at the Jurassic Canyon, the background is about 100-150 cpm. Its double the normal background rate, but this is no crisis! By comparison, in December 2024, I brought a geiger counter with me on an American Airlines flight, cruising at 33,000 ft altitude. The measured radiation at my window seat was 950 CPM, about 13 TIMES the normal radiation at the ground surface. Astronauts at the ISS International Space Station experience cosmic gamma radiation that is 240 times more intense than background surface radiation. Astronauts who travel to Red Planet Mars soon, will experience surface ratiation that is 700 times stronger than what we get on the Earth's surface! Stephen Buggie, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus "Have Geigers, Will Travel" Univ. of New Mexico, Gallup