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scintillometer redux

posted on Apr 22, 2009 06:28PM

I've been an investor for over a year and been following this hub for a while. Back in the day I used to carry out uranium exploration so I may be able to clear up some of the confusion regarding the scintillometer and importance of the cps. A scintillometer only measures counts per second of gamma ray emitting minerals without identifying which radioactive mineral is present. The press release(April 20) does not mention what instrument was used and I would be surprised and disappointed if they did use a scintillometer for such an important measurement. A spectrometer on the other hand can identify different radioactive species and give a preliminary assay estimate. They clearly used this instrument on the Big Bang ( Otish property) as it is a hand held device. Normally you examine the core with the spectometer and identify anomalous portions in the field beside the drill rig. There are 3 common radioactive sources measured with this instrument ( although newer versions may be a lot more sophisticated compared to what I used): Potassium, Thorium and Uranium. This begs the following question. If a spectrometer was in fact used to record the cps value , then why wasn't the radioactive source identified? The press release is ambiguous as to whether the 1100 cps was measured in the basement rock or in the sandstone above. This is very important for deciding how prospective the area is . I haven't checked if this information is in the old press releases but it looks like they need to tie up the land held by CanAlaska Uranium located right in the middle of the strongest EM anomalies on the West Millennium property. Hope this helps.

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