[ RadSafe ] Yellowcake facepaint in PNG ?

[Dan McCarn]

There was the Goiânia radiation incident where a child used some of the
CsCl material for face paint.

The full story is in:

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub815_web.pdf


Dan ii

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On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Jaro Franta <jaro_10kbq at videotron.ca>
wrote:

> Also, you might find this interesting (large jpg image with text, click to
> zoom for reading):
>
> https://db.tt/2cVncRL9
>
>  Jaro
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:
> radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Dan McCarn
> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 2:48 PM
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Yellowcake facepaint in PNG ?
>
> Hi Franz:
>
> I have no knowledge of that, but pitchblende and other uranium-bearing
> minerals were used as glass and porcelain dyes for centuries, sometimes
> associated with miner's problems with disease in Czech Republic.
>
> Dan ii
>
> Dan W McCarn, Geologist
> 108 Sherwood Blvd
> Los Alamos, NM 87544-3425
> +1-505-670-8123 (Mobile - New Mexico)
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>
> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Franz Schönhofer <
> franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> wrote:
>
> > was ,
> > Forgive my limited knowledge of ethnology, which I always have been
> > interested in. So I want to comment strictly on the basis of common
> > sense which is obviously not used in the majority of press comments.
> >
> > To my knowledge yellow cake is produced after many steps of purification.
> > Interesting that yellow cake was produced hundreds of years ago by
> natives.
> > As well as "uranium salts".....
> >
> > Anything else? According to hearsay our ancestors used among others
> > granitic rocks with uranium and thorium inclusions to kill mammouths.
> > So it has been proved beyond doubt that radiation caused that
> > radiation he exstinction of mammouths! Unfortunately Greeenpeace was
> > not yet invented and was not able to save the mammouths.
> >
> > Anybody disagreeing with my explanation? Please send it to your
> > nearest Greenpeace adress or to me. Do not forget to label it as a
> > research of an "indipendent" researcher.
> >
> > Please forgive me for disturbing antinuclear fantasties, but I am so
> > tired of all those absurd messages in the mass media. I wish you a nice
> weekend.
> >
> > Franz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ..---Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Jaro Franta
> > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 2:08 AM 0
> > To: 'The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing
> List'
> > Subject: [ RadSafe ] Yellowcake facepaint in PNG ?
> >
> > Looking for someone in this group who could help confirm -- or deny --
> > a claim regarding yellow Uranium pigment being used by indigenous
> > tribesmen ( the Huli "Wigmen") in Papua New Guinea (PNG), for
> > ceremonial fayet5ainting,
> >
> > as per the following links:
> >
> >
> > http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-reports/1011953-papua-new-guinea-w
> > igmen-
> > use-uraniam-face-paint-photos.html
> >
> > http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/10/papua-new-guinea/   (see text
> near
> > bottom of page)
> >
> > General reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huli_people
> >
> > I know that uranium salts were used as pigments by south-western
> > American tribesmen for face & body paint, but that was hundreds of years
> ago.
> > It would be amazing, if true, that uranium face paint is still being
> > used today, in PNG.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Jaro Franta
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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