Pitchblende.
The sample and the mined orebody came from the Sue C Pit located in the Athabasca Basin here in Northern Saskatchewan.
There were many seperate lenses of ore composed of fragments of Quartz-cordierite-garnet gneiss supported by pitchblende.
These occurred as very dark bands and easy to distinguish the ore from the waste rock.
I have attached the geological report of the Sue C Pit
It is good reading and loaded with information.
See Minerology starting on page 12. The sample came from the massive type occurance as described on page 15.
http://publications.gov.sk.ca/documents/310/88703-tourignyetal.pdf
@Miningman, do you know what the name of the beautiful, flourescent and radioactive mineral is? I could not track it down definitively.
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Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
York1 John
After 34 days, our sailing trip is over. It was a great one, despite our engine incident. Sleeping tonite on our mooring, driving home tomorrow. Hoping 6-8 auto races that were supposed to record while we were away actually in fact did. Car racing (F1 and IndyCar) is my favorite sport, and in anticipation of watching theses races, I have not looked at any racing news in over a month. (But I did hear about the Dale, Jr. plane crash, and miraculous outcome.) Technology can be great: I can now go back in time and catch up on my races.
Sans TV and movies, you folks have been a great source of entertainment.
Lithonia OperatorIs this just me? Often, here on the phone, on this forum, in the little boxes at the bottom with links to other pages in the thread, I will get these numerals: -1, 0, 1, 2, 3
I think it's called the Page 6 glitch. On the next page, the numbering will go back to normal. It's very aggravating if you are trying to find a posting on the previous page.
It's a software glitch. I get it too. Only seems to do it on page 5.
Overmod - I updated Firefox and now I have the PM problems too. Sigh.
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Is this just me? Often, here on the phone, on this forum, in the little boxes at the bottom with links to other pages in the thread, I will get these numerals:
-1, 0, 1, 2, 3
etc.
Just sometimes, not all the time.
???
You may be right; the rectifier was an OZ-4--and that was about 70 years ago. I used it in a power supply that I built to run an amplifier that I built. I also used a rectifier which had a 5 volt filament, which simply had a slight red glow.
Johnny
DeggestyAnother mention of ozone--did you ever see a rectifier tube that was filled with ozone at work?--a beautiful purple glow inside the tube (no filament, just cathode, plate (anode), and ozone.
I thought that was mercury vapor, not ozone. All the oxygen would have been gettered (in a glass-envelope tube) long before significant power was applied across it, or so I would think.
Fixed mercury-pool rectifiers, like the ones on the original 3000V Lackawanna electrification circa 1928, may have had some air inside the tank to be excited during arc conduction. As the punchline went in a less PC age: "i don't know,,, I never looked."
Paul of Covington Lithonia Operator Please note that in my most recent post there was a brief railroad mention. Here's a railroad related question. Mooring buoys: I know of nowhere around here where they are used, but from what I've read, they're quite common in New England. I read sometime ago that someone got some old locomotive wheels to use as an anchor for a mooring buoy. Have you heard of that, and if so, is it a common practice?
Lithonia Operator Please note that in my most recent post there was a brief railroad mention.
Please note that in my most recent post there was a brief railroad mention.
Here's a railroad related question. Mooring buoys: I know of nowhere around here where they are used, but from what I've read, they're quite common in New England. I read sometime ago that someone got some old locomotive wheels to use as an anchor for a mooring buoy. Have you heard of that, and if so, is it a common practice?
Never heard about that.
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Flintlock76 riding the "Night Train" sooner than you should! (Railroad reference.)
riding the "Night Train" sooner than you should! (Railroad reference.)
As long as you limit exposure, and don't play with that stuff a-la Louis Slotin, you should be fine. An amazing sight to be sure!
Yikes! Goes without saying, you be careful, or you'll be riding the "Night Train" sooner than you should! (Railroad reference.)
On the other hand, I suppose that third eye in the back of your head comes in handing for making sure your students aren't goofing off!
The rock is NOT under UV light, just normal room lighting. NO it is not safe. I wouldn't recommend licking it! ( Geologists lick rocks all the time), also don't sprinkle on your cereal. It's safe as stored and handled.
It is stored away, wrapped in lead in a lead lined suitcase sealed in a lead lined barrel 30 feet up by an exhaust fan which vents out any radon gas. It is secretly under care by 2 people. The room is massive and is specially built for storage of radioactive core samples with prism stations for continuous monitoring.
We open 'er up once a year to show new students. We give ourselves less than a minute, more like 20 seconds.
It comes from one of our Uranium Mines from years ago.
Except for the third eye I've acquired in the back of my head I'm fine!
There was an in depth discussion on this maybe 2 years ago on String Lining. Also look up Gabon Reactors.
Never cared for Hendrix, thought it was so much noise, but WOW, what kind of rock/mineral is that? Is it under UV light (I suspect it is) or does it always look like that?
And if it always looks like that, is it safe?
Purple Haze
Acting funny and I don't know why
'scuse me while I kiss the sky
York1 Lithonia Operator What places have you been the past several days?
Lithonia Operator
What places have you been the past several days?
Deggesty Another mention of ozone--did you ever see a rectifier tube that was filled with ozone at work?--a beautiful purple glow inside the tube (no filiament, just cathode, plate (anode), and ozone.
Another mention of ozone--did you ever see a rectifier tube that was filled with ozone at work?--a beautiful purple glow inside the tube (no filiament, just cathode, plate (anode), and ozone.
No, but the corona wires inside the copiers I used to work on had a purple glow around them while energized, interesting to see.
The new machines have them pretty well shielded, so the glow isn't as observable as it once was, or not observable at all. Made them harder to diagnose and work on.
Overmod Flintlock76 No biggie. If toner was toxic I'd be dead by now! Toner is just finely divided, fancily formulated black plastic. The SRC used in the coal-burning Eldorados looks just like it, but doesn't fuse like it. A significant example of a hazardous 'chemical' in your business would be ozone from the corona wires. And I'll bet you had a lot of exposure to that without a mask over the years...
Flintlock76 No biggie. If toner was toxic I'd be dead by now!
Toner is just finely divided, fancily formulated black plastic. The SRC used in the coal-burning Eldorados looks just like it, but doesn't fuse like it.
A significant example of a hazardous 'chemical' in your business would be ozone from the corona wires. And I'll bet you had a lot of exposure to that without a mask over the years...
I never worried about ozone. I figured it was protecting me from any loose cosmic rays that may have been floating around the office!
Flintlock76Ever blow your nose and have it come out black?
Unfortunately, dye mixed with plastic pellets in a plastic moulding firm has the same effect. So I had black, red (Milwaukee Electric Tool red), green, etc.
Flintlock76No biggie. If toner was toxic I'd be dead by now!
Lithonia Operator Flintlock76 I shed enough blood working on Japanese copiers over thirty years to qualify for a Purple Heart and a Pacific Theater ribbon! That's not counting the burns... Lord knows, you might have also been breathing toxic chemicals. (I‘m just trying to cheer you up.)
Flintlock76 I shed enough blood working on Japanese copiers over thirty years to qualify for a Purple Heart and a Pacific Theater ribbon! That's not counting the burns...
I shed enough blood working on Japanese copiers over thirty years to qualify for a Purple Heart and a Pacific Theater ribbon!
That's not counting the burns...
Lord knows, you might have also been breathing toxic chemicals.
(I‘m just trying to cheer you up.)
No biggie. If toner was toxic I'd be dead by now!
Ever blow your nose and have it come out black?
The color copier guys usually get a Technicolor effect!
Shadow the Cats ownerYou think boats are tough try some of the positions that my companies mechanics have to get into to change parts into on the trucks. I know my husband has a few horror stories about parts in hard to reach locations. The slave cylinders on top of the transmissions are a real treat on all conventional style trucks with a sleeper. The mechanic has to shove his head and chest in between the frame and cab to get to the top of the transmission disconnect the air lines on the slave clyinder causing the truck to loose all air pressure in the system and then replace the parts. It's even better on the newer automated manual transmissions when the ECM of the transmission needs replaced. They are located between the firewall and transmission behind the engine in a space that the only way to get to it is literally drop the entire exhaust and transmission out of the truck to get to 1 bolt that you can not get to any other way. So that means you are pulling the DEF SCR and everything to get to 1 freaking bolt on the transmission ECM that is on it. We normally send those to the dealer to have fun fixing. Or the best one is the air clyinder for the sliding fifth wheels that are located under it. You have to remove the fifth wheel to get to the cylinder and the plate itself weighs over 400 pounds and it is held on by 1 inch thick pins that are held in by roll pins also located under the fifth wheel that is inbetween the drive axles. Oh yeah the fun of working on some of these things.
All one has to do is watch some videos of how various things get built. The 'building block' approach. Various sub-assemblies are constructed - with each part in a easy place for the technician to attach it. Then the sub-assembly gets attached to another sub-assembly or the ultimate product and then the 'easily attached' parts get placed in virtually unreachable locations in the final product.
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You think boats are tough try some of the positions that my companies mechanics have to get into to change parts into on the trucks. I know my husband has a few horror stories about parts in hard to reach locations. The slave cylinders on top of the transmissions are a real treat on all conventional style trucks with a sleeper. The mechanic has to shove his head and chest in between the frame and cab to get to the top of the transmission disconnect the air lines on the slave clyinder causing the truck to loose all air pressure in the system and then replace the parts. It's even better on the newer automated manual transmissions when the ECM of the transmission needs replaced. They are located between the firewall and transmission behind the engine in a space that the only way to get to it is literally drop the entire exhaust and transmission out of the truck to get to 1 bolt that you can not get to any other way. So that means you are pulling the DEF SCR and everything to get to 1 freaking bolt on the transmission ECM that is on it. We normally send those to the dealer to have fun fixing. Or the best one is the air clyinder for the sliding fifth wheels that are located under it. You have to remove the fifth wheel to get to the cylinder and the plate itself weighs over 400 pounds and it is held on by 1 inch thick pins that are held in by roll pins also located under the fifth wheel that is inbetween the drive axles. Oh yeah the fun of working on some of these things.
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