Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2007.22.051
Accession#:
2007.22
Credit Line:
Transferred from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Object Name:
Booklet
Title:
Prospecting With A Counter: United States Atomic Energy Commission
Date:
July 1954
Year Range from:
1954
Year Range to:
1965
Scope & Content:
Pamphlet: "Prospecting With A Counter" by the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

Small booklet with orange cover. It is a guide for prospecting for uranium with a geiger or scintillation counter. The name "Tom L. Pittman, / Republic, Wn." is written in pencil on the top right cover corner.

Contents
Introduction
1. Types of Counters
Geiger counters
Scintillation counters
2. Gamma Rays
3. Radiations of Uranium
Radioactive equilibrium
4. Practical Problems
Background effect
Absorption effect
Cover effect
Cosmic effect
Topographic effect
Mass effect
Equilibrium effect
Radon effect
Thorium effect
Underground effecct
5. Special Uses
Radiometric assaying
Radiometric surveys
Special applications
6. Counter Maintenance
7. Questions and Answers
Appendix A
Manufacturees and Distributors of Portable Radiation
Detection of Instruments Suitable for Prospecting
Appendix B
Measurement Technique
Time—Constant
Efficiency
Statistical Error
Counting Rate
Sensitivity
Selected References
Dates of Accumulation:
Revised July 1954
People:
Pittman, Tom
Search Terms:
JMIC
Prospecting
Mining
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