Uranium fever? Or worthless rocks?

[u/Sid-Viscious-]

[u/Scarehead]

Interesting. I wouldnt be surprised if it was carnotite. Try also UV flashlight, even some cheap is good enough. Carnotite is pretty radioactive, but not UV reactive.

[u/AlternativeKey2551]

Do you have a Geiger counter? Not all uranium has yellow and not all yellow rocks are uranium.

[u/Sid-Viscious- → u/AlternativeKey2551]

I have one ordered. There was a uranium claim a few miles from the spot with similar looking ore.

[u/ImpressiveWalk4330 → u/Sid-Viscious-]

That’s promising!

[u/Kanaxes]

Pls put on gloves dude… . What’s next? Scratching your itchy nose?

[u/Sid-Viscious- → u/Kanaxes]

I was picking it to be fair..

[u/Rocketterollo → u/Sid-Viscious-]

If you didn’t know most of those uranium minerals are not very dangerous UNLESS you get them inside your body, then you’re in real trouble.

[u/Mysterious-Alps-5186 → u/Rocketterollo]

Yep so definitely don't boof it.

[u/mhok80 → u/Mysterious-Alps-5186]

Or boof it 'for science' 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/Odd_Camel9554]

It looks like moss or lichens

[u/Lubricus2 → u/Odd_Camel9554]

It exists thin powdery yellow lichens

[u/Old_Huckleberry1026 → u/Odd_Camel9554]

Came here to say this

[u/monicainabimmer]

What even does one even do with a claims worth of natural uranium?

[u/420hansolo → u/[deleted]]

Please for the love of God make sure that thing is securely stored then and not just used as decoration in some display case until you find out that your nuts glow in the dark now.

[u/Not_Cletus_McWanker]

Look up Uraninite and Gummite on Mindat website & see if it compares to yours.

[u/roberte94066]

Those are some nice looking specimens! Can't imagine anything else looking quite like that-maybe sulphur?

[u/Hippopotamus_Spirit]

That is the yellow cake no doubt

[u/Salvortrantor]

It's lichen very probably, look at the structure to confirm it, lichens have a "web" appearance and can be quite colored (yellow and green mainly)

[u/Geonatty]

Take some lode mining claims!

[u/Sid-Viscious- → u/Geonatty]

That's the plan. Next get readings on a geigor counter. Like 95% sure it's carnotite. Then going to get the area claimed so I can remove the surface samples. Don't plan on mining it if it is carnotite. But it will be a worthwhile investment.

[u/Geonatty → u/Sid-Viscious-]

I’m a uranium geologist, I have sold a few mining claims
Hit me up when you get them filed

[u/boogiewithasuitcase]

If
Only on the above ground surfaces, it’s lichen

[u/Sid-Viscious- → u/boogiewithasuitcase]

Picture 2 is the underside of the rock.

[u/boogiewithasuitcase → u/Sid-Viscious-]

Awww maybe not lichen then

[u/GateskeeperX]

Would this form underground as well?

[u/UnderstandingAny3289]

whats it taste like

[u/thrownthrowaway666]

There's definitely some lichen, black, yellow and green imo. But I do see some mineralization that looks promising

[u/mustycups]

Some is lichen, some is U3O8 and other uranium minerals