The great uranium hunt has brought a suddenly burgeoning uranium equipment business. Many of the companies which now outfit prospectors did not exist 10 years ago. Firms like Precision Radiation Instruments of Los Angeles and Nuclear Instrument & Chemical Corporation of Chicago, which make the radiation counters required for uranium hunters, have been formed since then and reached million dollar success.
At first uranium gear moved through traditional mining equipment channels, but the vast amateur turnout has changed all that. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward now list Geiger and scintillation counters in their catalogs and report sales are skyrocketing. Clothing makers, responding to the amateur boom, have created dudish prospecting costumes (above), wearing which will harm no one.
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