Prospecting for Radioactive Uranium: Uncovering High-Grade Ore with UV Light!

Join @Danhurd , @mineoperator , and Tamarack Geologic Services as they prospect for radioactive uranium in the Southwest United States. Using Geiger counters, XRF guns, and UV lights, they hunt for high-grade uranium ore. Watch as they uncover some amazing specimens that glow under UV light, providing a stunning display of natural fluorescence.
This video showcases the excitement and adventure of prospecting for radioactive minerals, as well as the importance of safety precautions when handling such materials. Follow along with the team as they explore the geology of the region and use their expertise to identify promising areas for further exploration.
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[@mineoperator]

Hats off to Jason. He spent many hours traveling and dealing with airport layovers. Then to drive several hours to meet up with us. We look forward to making future videos with you Jason. Thanks for visiting us and our property!

[@TrickyDickyP]

Guys.. please wear some basic dust mask type PPE while walking around kicking up dust? One small particle of this stuff inhaled is not beneficial to your health.. Good video. Stay safe..!

[@Ed_in_Md]

Thanks to all of you for an absolutely fascinating video. Hope to see more! Just awesome guys!

[@MakingUsThink]

@@TrickyDickyP Not enough on the surface because it already became oxidized. It is why it is safe no matter how much dust kicks around. Dust is already surfaced, loose and oxidized therefore I think that is what was explained.

[@semoneg2826]

Awesome...I learn so much here

[@MakingUsThink]

As a disabled person, I always enjoy Jason's adventures. Today's adventure was real fun to watch and learn. Thanks Jason.

[@edbrick7689]

Hi Jason, thanks for this type of video. I was born in Uravan, Colorado which was a huge uranium mining district. My grandad operated five uranium mines up on Long Park. Dad worked underground 36 years, I worked underground 41 years. It was a good living.

[@fritzpipkin792]

Hello Ed, just south of uravan, grew up here in monticello ut. Grandad mined and so did my father mining petered out in the early 80s and I was a young teenager or I would of been a powder monkey like my dad

[@rockbutcher]

Exciting trip Jason. I have spent some time in Uranium exploration as well in both Asia and the SW US. U will move quite easily in ground water, so a lot of what you were seeing on those joint faces were salts or carbonates of U. I have some funny stories to tell you about 'Geiger counters' pegging if we finally do meet. I did a job in Mongolia where we had carnotite in lignite coal units, U washing down from the local rhyolites. That stuff pegged the meter until you dialled it up. There was another company working next to us on the high ground and we were both drilling, using the same drilling company. The drillers saved money by having the Foreman run both jobs. I gave a sample bag full of crushed carnotite to the Foreman and told him to give it to the competitor's Geologist claiming it had washed up in the DDH cuttings. LOL. It got him excited until he looked at the core. 🤣🤣🤣

[@100GTAGUY]

I live right next to the Cotter superfund site and you're not kidding about the ground water contamination that uranium is capable of. On one hand it's kinda cool to be so close to that from a geological perspective, but a tad bit sketchy from a biological one haha.

[@robertspalding4717]

Yep. Some (most?) U salts are very water soluble. That's why almost all fossils are radioactive. They absorb and trap U as the organics ae being replaced. If the U mostly came after the deposition of the quartzite, it would be all over in the cracks, but not as much in the host vein. At least, that's how it was explained to me...

[@rockbutcher]

@@robertspalding4717 I wouldn't say almost all, but some for sure. That's a process called chelation where the U sticks to the C in the organic matter. That's why petrified logs in Colorado are little ore bodies.

[@Porty1119]

I've spent a little bit of time around Utah and Colorado uranium mines, but I was primarily up there buying equipment and doing some aboveground video of headframes around Nucla. Some of the residual muck on that equipment clicked when we went over it with a Geiger counter we found in the assay lab! Mercifully our rock down here is clean, and doesn't even generate acid.

[@rockman531]

Hey Jason, The inside of the tunnel looked like a 12 year olds bedroom back in the 70's with black lights. Incredible adventure and learning experience! Thank You MineOperators for letting Jason join you! Stay safe, Jim

[@DR_SOLO]

😮 now we know how the glow-in-the-dark scorpion was discovered, hunting for Uranium at night with glow sticks in the dark! LoL

[@jimwednt1229]

This planet itself holds so many secrets . Up until the advent of ultraviolet lamps 🔦 man had no way of seeing these beautiful radio active elements. The irony of uranium mineral being so beautiful under ultraviolet lights, yet a destroyer of worlds when utilized in a certain way. Awesome video, Jason!

[@herrhaber9076]

"No licking rocks here" Ah, a geologist joke to start the tour ! I Already knew I was going to love it :) The last few minutes were absolutely stunning under different wavelenghts, thank you !

[@jacobkuykendall9325]

Brian really knows his stuff about this. Very cool

[@xxxm981]

Now thats a mine i would actually want to wear a mask in. Call me paranoid about radioactive particles XD

[@robertspalding4717]

And it's guaranteed to have a high concentration of Radon gas in there.

[@edwardhughes352]

Cool video. The short UV light is the one that kills cells (sterilising light,UVC) Its more dangerous than the long wavelenth UVA which is what is used in light shows called black light.

[@mrwutchamacalit]

im love the new things you been doing this was awesome please keep up the great videos mate

[@Israelwins]

Thank you MBMM and Mineoperators for this insight

[@markae0]

26:23 Like walking in a video game. Great video!

[@kerzwhile]

Absolutely Incredible!!!😮 Gorgeous. Thank you Jason!

[@prestongriffin416]

that video puts it at the top of the list of many many of your great video great job glad you ask dan to come along keep it up PRESTON

[@chuckerickson6721]

Thanks Jason another great video!

[@fredolygrigs]

Love ur videos bro , been watchin u and dan for years .

[@josephpecoul6532]

That's very cool thanks for the video Jayson

[@rh5971]

This video gets a glowing review from me, Jason!!!

[@josephcormier5974]

That was awesome Jason and very interesting thank you for sharing this six stars brother

[@stevenhancock8052]

This is so cool Very Educational One rarely hear's much about uranium there's a strange Interest about it Thanks for sharing

[@typicalrockhound9887]

Awesome video ! Thanks for sharing . Was cool to see , They blasted shut the portals to all the uranium mines around here . My grandpa worked at Denison Mine in Elliot Lake Ontario for 35 years as a driller . He had hands like baseball gloves from what i renember , a strong tough asf quebec frenchmen lol 💪 Passed away due to silicosis.... That generation of miners is unfortunatly no longer around ..

[@Porty1119]

Lung cancer got a lot of the uranium miners down here in New Mexico. The gold/silver/zinc/lead guys are mostly still around; I know one old-timer in his early 80s who still drills and blasts occasionally! If you spend any time on the Navajo Nation, you'll see billboard after billboard advertising care for uranium-related occupational illness. The way Kerr-McGee and others treated their guys was criminal.

[@user-oo3fx1wb8u]

Morning my friend from Darvel Ayrshire Scotland

[@monomarino5349]

Beautiful opening shot. Another adventure.

[@DevJB]

Totally. Except when he said 'different' I heard 'stupid'. It made me smile. lol

[@scruggsbuster9458]

I don't know about you but if I had radioactivity in there I would be worried about the Dust being kicked up inside there but that cave looks juicy thank you for the video see you on the next one😊😊😊😊😊

[@ccjensen4670]

Love your video..thanks!

[@canuckgarage]

If you want uranium, I know where it was mined in Canada to supply the Manhattan Project. I have some of the drill core samples from the mine. We found the tailings dump and some of the foundations from the machinery. Still haven't found the audits.

[@tonysmith5924]

Saw most of this on dan herds channel! But will still watch!

[@doncarpenter183]

What a cool job you have.

[@SomeCallMeCasey]

Holy crap! I actually know one of those people from way back in high school. That’s wild! Great video as per the usual.

[@redbaronrefining5322]

If you guys ever want to assay some ore, I refine gold chemically and also play with uranium time to time. Never both at once, but I’d damn sure be able to tell you yield estimates and get any gold or other PMs out of the ore!!

[@milwaukeeroadjim9253]

realy interesting video. thanks

[@MrMarkAMartin]

I really appreciate the way you introduced Dans son. I saw his video on the mine first and thought, you know this guy Dan needs to realize that it’s his son that’s the treasure and to stop taking him for granted. Maybe Dans just nervous.. any how enjoyed your video and will sub those guys for sure!

[@acitizen.5276]

Dan does seem to like the sound of his own voice, but he is very good at his craft

[@chemistryscuriosities]

The UV region covers the wavelength range 100-400 nm and is divided into three bands: UVA (315-400 nm) UVB (280-315 nm) UVC (100-280 nm). Short-wavelength UVC is the most damaging type of UV radiation. However, it is completely filtered by the atmosphere and does not reach the earth's surface. Medium-wavelength UVB is very biologically active but cannot penetrate beyond the superficial skin layers. It is responsible for delayed tanning and burning; in addition to these short-term effects it enhances skin ageing and significantly promotes the development of skin cancer. Most solar UVB is filtered by the atmosphere. The relatively long-wavelength UVA accounts for approximately 95 per cent of the UV radiation reaching the Earth's surface. It can penetrate into the deeper layers of the skin and is responsible for the immediate tanning effect. Furthermore, it also contributes to skin ageing and wrinkling. For a long time it was thought that UVA could not cause any lasting damage. Recent studies strongly suggest that it may also enhance the development of skin cancers.

[@iknklst]

I wonder which superpowers each one will end up with? Jason will definitely be able to crush rock into powder with his hands, maybe Dan will have the ability to smell gold.

[@semoneg2826]

Was thinking the same lol

[@puppetmaster8106]

Awesome video.

[@andrewthalerscrappy437]

That was indeed awesome

[@JerryBWagoner]

Amazing video.

[@timothyodonnell8591]

Great video!

[@bartvandenberg4901]

Pretty cool!

[@rindapelton5876]

Thank you 🤗

[@fritzpipkin792]

Jason nice video, growing up around this grandad and my father were miners I would of been next but the price bottom out in the 80s I still live in the area south of moab

[@Verifraudreports]

I grew up in Utah . Used to in the uranium tunnels as a kid.

[@user-lk4wt1nx5m]

That was really cool

[@hippie.matt.]

Wow, that's awesome

[@transmitterguy478]

That looks like Kryptonite! Don't let Superman near it as he will lose all his powers! OMG!

[@renosranch4]

Maybe the next video you can talk about the actual processing of this material, the dangers of being exposed to it, and the markets for it. Thanks

[@Vaughan..]

Thats wild

[@tomheater6149]

Nice, smart video

[@michaelkaiser4674]

i was just thinking of you.and i find you in my back yard.rock on my friend

[@808zhu]

Awesome!

[@DevJB]

Holy moly. tbh. I'd get in the truck and get out of there back to the gold and gems.

[@hestonstewart1341]

Great location! I believe thats Lucerne Valley just off the 247. Two miles south St Joseph monastery.

[@richcollins513]

Dude, I have always loved your channel but this right here is what I am most curious about. I always fear radioactivity and always want to educate myself further for safety reasons. Cancer kills more people than anything and I believe it comes from the many forms of radiation we encounter throughout our lives. Thank You

[@VenturiLife]

Cancer has a lot of sources, viruses, genetic propensity to cancer, chemicals (smoking / alcohol), radiation etc. The sun is one source of skin cancer as we know if you get burnt out there, so fair-skinned ginger people with freckles for example are very susceptible genetically to getting burnt and developing skin cancers. You can control sun exposure, and chemical exposure in the home to an extent (particularly in the bedroom), and not smoking / drinking alcohol (a mutagen via acetaldehyde). One form of natural radiation is radon gas, which is constantly being produced by radium decaying in things like granite rocks etc.

[@conorslattery4669]

The song uranium fever is stuck in my head while watching this…

[@danduzenski3597]

Harness the flash (smelting). Super Nova power plant. Melt some crystal. Nice video.

[@carlbodeker2127]

Looking good with out your cap

[@74KU]

Well, I don't know, but I've been told, Uranium ore's worth more than gold

[@awldune]

Very cool

[@swedenfrommycam]

Wow wow wow Amazing 👾

[@vanitatoftby]

Jason, if you took some bags of the material and processed it through your system at home, could the shaker table enrich Uranium?

[@jasonsummit1885]

It'd be interesting to see cabs made out of this material.

[@SCW1060]

Very cool video Jason I'd love to know how they separate the uranium out to me that would be kinda hard

[@rogerschroeder8905]

I like this video. But I have no idea what I saw or if it is of any value. But it was really cool.

[@hattricksprospecting1769]

I had to take a minute to think of the funny Uranium Propaganda. "This day Jason goes into a giant microwave. After being freshly cooked, he looked just like steamed rice and 20 years younger. Man that looks tight!"😂

[@jamesluck2969]

Ah the good old ludlum model 3 and 44-9 combo

[@jdrains16]

At 1:25, when you zoom in, towards the top of the screen, just left of center, there’s a bit of rock that looks like a face. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it…😂

[@tonycardwell6470]

Hey Jason if I sent 1ton of of scrap pc parts how much would it cost to have you extract the gold from it

[@jimmime]

I hear tell that before too long we may all glow in the dark. Thank you, Jason.

[@dionh70]

Jason, I strongly recommend that you refrain from running any of that stuff through your crusher, mill, and shaker table setup. Hope that helps! lol

[@user-qb6oy3qn4u]

Frgood Frgood 💯

[@Tim-Kaa]

Everyone who visited that cave in the video must be addressed now with "Your Brightness".

[@sircampbell1249]

Lots of that in Wyoming......

[@HensleyTG1]

What do u do with the ore

[@disabledbeagle1511]

Uranium Fever - Elton Britt

[@busbey61]

I am a Landman and I always wanted to do something regarding to uranium.

[@davidmartin5424]

Glad you found some in the USA. So we don't need to get it from another country!☕✌️❗

[@VenturiLife]

Queue song - Uranium Fever: Elton Britt, 1955

[@hattricksprospecting1769]

Oh man can't believe you went to get blasted that much by alpha and beta particles. It took me a week to cool down last time that happened to me. I took the bus after a physics experiment like that and it felt like the radiation was being vacuumed out of me constantly, all the while making me feel better. After 3 days installing emergency radiation shielding after the physics lab elements got over excited making the whole town sick until we fixed the problem at the school of mines Colorado.

[@revolt7829]

I'd be Leary to be any where near that mine , make sure you wash off the Glow 😊 .

[@NewNormac]

How are the uranium separated from its host rock, is it done the same way with golds and silvers? Thanks ~Smile oN

[@mhughes1160]

Like something growing on the walls in a horror movie

[@kienhwengtai8113]

Explains why Uranium glass is that kind of green.

[@BullProspecting]

Bro... Be careful... We have alot of that up here in the New England. Its super dangerous.. My first melts where uranium.. I now use a counter before prospecting..

[@The_Bookman]

Dan was talking about selling samples of it. Is it not some sort of controlled substance? Surely there are laws controlling uranium?

[@grebulocities8225]

There are some laws, but only for rather large quantities. You can just buy high-grade ore samples or even a few grams of natural or depleted (not enriched) uranium metal on the internet. It's not particularly dangerous - just treat the metal like any other moderately toxic metal like lead or cadmium, and keep in mind that large amounts of uranium ore in poorly-ventilated areas are a bad idea because ores emit radon gas.

[@doddshay9019]

What would be creepy is if normal gold prospectors are unknowingly around very powerful radiation.

[@markbrown6236]

Suburb content, will be hard to top this. Why I follow this channel to see new things.

[@thisisbeyondajoke6748]

Would any of your machines be of use in a uranium mine Jason.? Also you do the dangerous thing so we don't have to 😂❤

[@platinumskies7968]

Jason has uranium fever lol

[@MrRmeadows]

Want Uranium? I hear that Chernobil has that.

[@brianwalko]

Uraninite does not fluoresce. What are the secondary uranium minerals in this mine that fluoresce?

[@WilliamTMusil]

Hiya Jason

[@Jkauppa]

how about salt water distillation with concentrated solar etc, should contain all types of minerals

[@Jkauppa]

hopefully not in the solar evaporation ponds, but in solar concentration distillation towers

[@F-n-Ham]

There is an abundance of uranium and plutonium in welland Ontario being mined as we speak. Company name is Regen

[@guyintenn]

The only thing I can fine about Regen in Welland, ON is that they are "mining" synthetic graphite left over at the location of the old Union Carbide facility. According the the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commissions website, "At this time, all operating uranium mines and mills in Canada are located in northern Saskatchewan. Orano Canada and Cameco Corporation are the licensees of the active mining and milling facilities." Also, Plutonium is typically made from Uranium in a reactor, as it is only found in trace amounts naturally.

[@F-n-Ham]

They are covering it up I think. Mining it super quick over 30 excavators. And the bit about uranium and plutonium was in the Welland Tribune that has been removed for some reason. union carbide use to fulfill government contracts, so what were they making to create plutonium. Is there someone in the area that can come test the soil?

[@F-n-Ham]

I appreciate you investigateing, it feels like no1 really cares! Iv already had cancer in the past don't really want it again. also a lot of mental health issues and cancer in this town glad they are digging it up and getting rid of it.

[@frankleonard1453]

What’s the value of uranium?

[@user-sj9cl9bp3d]

الله يحفظك ويطول بعمرك احبك كثير

[@tadvanallen]

Great Video....... good stuff....

[@iolithblue]

Does radon gas build up in the mine?

[@DevJB]

Yes and no. Yes, if there is a lot of granitic disturbance, tailing piles, loose material all over the place, other reasons. No, at some sites.

[@michaelwarden5349]

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH SIR PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS SIR. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING US WITH YOU AND YOUR TEAM SIR.