The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory was released in the early 1950s and comes complete with real uranium ore samples. Marketed as an educational tool to inspire budding scientists, the kit ...

After uranium ore and other materials arrive at the mill site, they’re organized by type into separate piles to await processing. During a recent tour, Logan Shumway, the mill’s manager ...

In some uranium samples from Gabon’s Oklo region, the uranium-235 ratio was even lower, dipping to 0.4%. That was more than a statistical fluke — it meant something profound had altered the ore.

Shipments of uranium ore from a revived mining operation just south of the Grand Canyon are expected to resume in February after the Navajo Nation reached a settlement with the mining company ...

A highly coveted children's toy from the 1950s is going on sale—and it contains real uranium. The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory, which was released in 1950, was dubbed one of 'the 10 ...

Shipments of uranium ore from a revived mining operation just south of the Grand Canyon are expected to resume in February after the Navajo Nation reached a settlement with the mining company ...

Replete with a Geiger counter, uranium ore samples, electroscope, miniature cloud chamber and spinthariscope, the $50 Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab educational tool was sold to families in 1952.

In usual uranium ore deposits, three main isotopes are found; uranium-238, uranium-234, and uranium-235, based on how many neutrons are contained within the nucleus.

No $10,000. Sure enough, the rocks contained streaks of a low-grade uranium ore called carnotite. Paddy staked a 160-acre claim for himself, a few more for his sons, and waited for the Government ...

But most thought it came from thorium, because the outcrops yielded little uranium ore. ... to put up $30,000 in 1953 to take core samples in the area. The cores proved Joubin right.

Six tonnes of ore samples collected from Koppies are now in transit to Perth for a metallurgical testwork program utilising the process, with results expected to inform the design of an U-pgrade ...