Uranium mine near Moab, Utah 

I highly doubt it has the same potency as lead knowing what a spent DU rounds has done to local population on a battlefield.

@@WetaMantis Yeah, the radioactive part makes it much worse than lead.

@@MarkRose1337 But isn't Depleted Uranium toxicity only based on the element since it's not a radioactive isotope?

@@MarkRose1337 You're a legend BTW responding to comments 8 years later :)

​@@WetaMantis If I remember correctly, there was a study where they found uranium was about 1.2 times as toxic as lead when determining the LD50 when given to mice. Obviously both are bad long term: lead significantly lowers IQ and causes organ damage and I imagine uranium does, too, like excess heavy metals in general. Both can end up incorporated in bones and other tissues, but the uranium will decay and cause damage that lead won't. Uranium is only mildly radioactive: it wouldn't have lasted billions of years if it were moderately or highly radioactive. When it does decay though, the daughter products are moderately to highly radioactive, and that's where most of the activity in uranium ore comes from. Pure uranium, whether natural, depleted, or enriched, isn't that active, but enough is still chemically and radiologically toxic. A health physicist could tell you a lot more than I can. But I always wash my hands with soap after handling uranium ore, and I keep only a couple small samples. I don't the excess radon.

What do you do with a used postage stamp, butterfly or rare mineral at home?

Spices the barbeque.

(b) Any person is exempt from the regulations in this part and from the requirements for a license set forth in section 62 of the act to the extent that such person receives, possesses, uses, or transfers unrefined and unprocessed ore containing source material; provided, that, except as authorized in a specific license, such person shall not refine or process such ore. USNRC § 40.13 Unimportant quantities of source material. So they don't need a license.

Location is 38.683385N, 109.705346W.

thanks Carl.

Also will vintage counter work a well as ludlum 12?

Naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) is specifically exempted from licensing per NRC regulations.

This comment is pretty old. But if you still are waiting on the answer. NaI will work, and most of the time be just as effective. But BGO for its size packs much more density, and ultimately because of this density, it's much more sensitive