[Rockhounds] Just how hazardous is Carnotite?

[Jim Daly]

The data on webmineral refers to a specimen of pure carnotite, I presume. Purity, as well as size, would come in to play in determining the radioactivity of the specimen. He'd best find someone with a Geiger counter, instead of trying to guess from published data.
  Jim

J Bryan Kramer <codeburner at gmail.com> wrote:
  Over on the New Mexico rockhound group some guy has a chunk, of as yet
unrevealed size, of what he thinks may be Carnotite. Looking at the
webminerals pages the stuff does not sound like something that I would want
in my house, over 100 mRem/hr for a 100 gram specimen.

Just how hazardous is it?

BK

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J Bryan Kramer
North Florida, USA
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