P.O. Box 1141
Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
January, 2022
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
TUCSON SHOW INFO: I will be on the road from January 25th until around February 16th. For the show itself, I will be in my usual spot “Days Inn” (665 N. Freeway, Tucson) and I’ll be in my usual room - 134. I should be open by mid to late morning Friday January 28th. I will likely stay through the bitter end (unless security issues become a problem like they did in the “second week” of last year’s April show) which would be February 12th. I open the door most days at 10AM. I will have the door open most evenings until around 9:30pm or so (or later if people are visiting/ still wandering about) but there may be a couple nights I will be out for dinner or such for a couple hours but that should be rare.
ODESSA, Texas: Iron. Coarse octahedrite (IAB), Found 1922.
Here are some pieces that I have had easily for over 30 years. I had these on my “regular” catalog (a 3 page thing of mostly common and/ or small items for beginning collectors). I still have a magazine ad or two out there but I don’t think I have sent out more than 6 or 7 of these catalogs in the past year. This, along with the fact that I have sold all the other pieces of this meteorite I had this year, made me decide to go ahead and finish the job (I‘ll put Agoudal on the list instead for my “natural” iron specimens). These are all natural as found and, as such, certainly won’t win any beauty contests but samples of this meteorite has gotten quite hard to come by in recent years. All of these are “one of a kind” so I don’t have “backup” specimens for any of these, unfortunately.
1) Natural individuals as found:
a) 137.8 grams 60mm x 45mm x 15mm $210.00
b) 158.5 grams 40mm x 35mm x 25mm $240.00
c) 195.4 grams 45mm x 35mm x 30mm $295.00
d) 233.9 grams 45mm x 40mm x 30mm $350.00
AQUILE, Bolivia: Ordinary chondrite (H5), S3. Fell November 2016. Tkw = 50kg +.
This is the first ever fall recorded in Bolivia (surprising, as it is not a tiny country) and only their second stone meteorite (I personally found their first - a really ugly weathered 12g stone fragment called Sevaruyo). I held back on getting any of this, though I have a personal like of Bolivia, as it has been quite expensive (and still is to some degree. What little I was able to find available is still priced at $15/g (not much) to $30/g (most common). I picked these up from a Bolivian mineral dealer at the last Denver show. He is a nice enough guy but really, really tough to negotiate with (part of that was because he says that these pieces are the last available. No more will be coming out of Bolivia). Anyway, here is a selection of cut fragments and complete individuals. The cut fragments don’t have much crust (many, particularly the smaller ones, don’t have any) but most show the classic brecciated texture of this stone. The individuals are quite nice and I’ll include a note as to their rough (guestimate) primary crust coverage.
1) Cut fragments/ end piece:
a) 3.3 grams 27mm x 15mm x 4mm $40.00
b) 7.0 grams 25mm x 20mm x 8mm $80.00
c) 13.8 grams 40mm x 22mm x 10mm $150.00
d) 21.6 grams 40mm x 30mm x 7mm $225.00
e) 42.4 grams 35mm x 22mm x 30mm $425.00 – lots of crust on this one.
f) 83.8 grams 75mm x 40mm x 10mm $750.00
2) Complete individuals: Some (particularly the smallest) have areas of secondary crust.
a) 16.6g (50% crust) - $180.00,b) 30.7g (95% crust) - $300, c) 52.4g (90% crust) - $500
b) 108.6g (90% crust) - $1000
NWA (13417): Ordinary chondrite (H3-6 breccia), W2, S2, Found 2012. Tkw = 349.6 grams.
A single stone was purchased from a Moroccan seller during the Denver 2012 show. Cutting revealed an interior of lots of well-formed chondrules and some fresh metal in a medium brown matrix. I had this stone set aside for many years, thinking it was likely a type 3 before finally getting around to cutting a piece off and sending it in for research. Yep, the research work showed that this was indeed (mostly) a type 3, but it also contains some type 6 clasts (the research thin-section had a centimeter sized H6 clast), giving this the H3-6 breccia classification.
1) Slices:
a) 1.9 grams 25mm x 12mm x 3mm $9.00
b) 4.8 grams 25mm x 24mm x 3mm $22.00
c) 10.0 grams 40mm x 19mm x 4mm $43.00
d) 23.5 grams 47mm x 35mm x 4mm $100.00
2) End piece:
a) 80.7 grams 65mm x 40mm x 20mm $300.00 – main mass.
NWA (13107): Ordinary chondrite. (LL7), S2, W1. Found 2018. Tkw = 2320 grams.
I think this is the first time I have ever offered an LL7. To me, there is no question that this is indeed what this is. It has the triple-junction crystalline look of a eurielite or brachinite but has the mineralogy (mostly olivine and pyroxene) of LL composition (iron in olivine – Faylite – number of 27.7 and iron in pyroxene of 22.8). Not even a hint of a chondrule is to be found in this one. This is listed as “W1” but it looks, to me, to be a bit more weathered than that. It is not bad though it just has a nice medium brown color but no clearly visible metal and some cracking. This is the second largest specimen of this type meteorite known currently. I don’t have many (the largest part of this sold as an end piece to a collector) but I did save a number of complete slices which, I believe, are the largest slices of this type meteorite currently available. Of coarse, I broke quite a few up so those of us that just want to add a piece of this unusual material to our collections without spending a relatively large amount can do so.
1) Slices/ part slices:
a) 1.5 grams 15mm x 10mm x 3mm $15.00
b) 2.8 grams 20mm x 12mm x 3mm $25.00
c) 5.5 grams 22mm x 18mm x 4mm $45.00
d) 10.3 grams 35mm x 18mm x 5mm $80.00
e) 20.5 grams 40mm x 31mm x 5mm $150.00
f) 43.4 grams 77mm x 40mm x 4mm $310.00 – complete slice.
g) 92.7 grams 120mm x 50mm x 4mm $650.00 – complete slice.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
TUCSON SHOW INFO: I will be on the road from January 25th until around February 16th. For the show itself, I will be in my usual spot “Days Inn” (665 N. Freeway, Tucson) and I’ll be in my usual room - 134. I should be open by mid to late morning Friday January 28th. I will likely stay through the bitter end (unless security issues become a problem like they did in the “second week” of last year’s April show) which would be February 12th. I open the door most days at 10AM. I will have the door open most evenings until around 9:30pm or so (or later if people are visiting/ still wandering about) but there may be a couple nights I will be out for dinner or such for a couple hours but that should be rare.
ODESSA, Texas: Iron. Coarse octahedrite (IAB), Found 1922.
Here are some pieces that I have had easily for over 30 years. I had these on my “regular” catalog (a 3 page thing of mostly common and/ or small items for beginning collectors). I still have a magazine ad or two out there but I don’t think I have sent out more than 6 or 7 of these catalogs in the past year. This, along with the fact that I have sold all the other pieces of this meteorite I had this year, made me decide to go ahead and finish the job (I‘ll put Agoudal on the list instead for my “natural” iron specimens). These are all natural as found and, as such, certainly won’t win any beauty contests but samples of this meteorite has gotten quite hard to come by in recent years. All of these are “one of a kind” so I don’t have “backup” specimens for any of these, unfortunately.
1) Natural individuals as found:
b) 158.5 grams 40mm x 35mm x 25mm $240.00
c) 195.4 grams 45mm x 35mm x 30mm $295.00
d) 233.9 grams 45mm x 40mm x 30mm $350.00
AQUILE, Bolivia: Ordinary chondrite (H5), S3. Fell November 2016. Tkw = 50kg +.
This is the first ever fall recorded in Bolivia (surprising, as it is not a tiny country) and only their second stone meteorite (I personally found their first - a really ugly weathered 12g stone fragment called Sevaruyo). I held back on getting any of this, though I have a personal like of Bolivia, as it has been quite expensive (and still is to some degree. What little I was able to find available is still priced at $15/g (not much) to $30/g (most common). I picked these up from a Bolivian mineral dealer at the last Denver show. He is a nice enough guy but really, really tough to negotiate with (part of that was because he says that these pieces are the last available. No more will be coming out of Bolivia). Anyway, here is a selection of cut fragments and complete individuals. The cut fragments don’t have much crust (many, particularly the smaller ones, don’t have any) but most show the classic brecciated texture of this stone. The individuals are quite nice and I’ll include a note as to their rough (guestimate) primary crust coverage.
1) Cut fragments/ end piece:
a) 3.3 grams 27mm x 15mm x 4mm $40.00
b) 7.0 grams 25mm x 20mm x 8mm $80.00
c) 13.8 grams 40mm x 22mm x 10mm $150.00
d) 21.6 grams 40mm x 30mm x 7mm $225.00
e) 42.4 grams 35mm x 22mm x 30mm $425.00 – lots of crust on this one.
f) 83.8 grams 75mm x 40mm x 10mm $750.00
2) Complete individuals: Some (particularly the smallest) have areas of secondary crust.
a) 16.6g (50% crust) - $180.00,
b) 108.6g (90% crust) - $1000
NWA (13417): Ordinary chondrite (H3-6 breccia), W2, S2, Found 2012. Tkw = 349.6 grams.
A single stone was purchased from a Moroccan seller during the Denver 2012 show. Cutting revealed an interior of lots of well-formed chondrules and some fresh metal in a medium brown matrix. I had this stone set aside for many years, thinking it was likely a type 3 before finally getting around to cutting a piece off and sending it in for research. Yep, the research work showed that this was indeed (mostly) a type 3, but it also contains some type 6 clasts (the research thin-section had a centimeter sized H6 clast), giving this the H3-6 breccia classification.
1) Slices:
a) 1.9 grams 25mm x 12mm x 3mm $9.00
b) 4.8 grams 25mm x 24mm x 3mm $22.00
c) 10.0 grams 40mm x 19mm x 4mm $43.00
d) 23.5 grams 47mm x 35mm x 4mm $100.00
2) End piece:
a) 80.7 grams 65mm x 40mm x 20mm $300.00 – main mass.
NWA (13107): Ordinary chondrite. (LL7), S2, W1. Found 2018. Tkw = 2320 grams.
I think this is the first time I have ever offered an LL7. To me, there is no question that this is indeed what this is. It has the triple-junction crystalline look of a eurielite or brachinite but has the mineralogy (mostly olivine and pyroxene) of LL composition (iron in olivine – Faylite – number of 27.7 and iron in pyroxene of 22.8). Not even a hint of a chondrule is to be found in this one. This is listed as “W1” but it looks, to me, to be a bit more weathered than that. It is not bad though it just has a nice medium brown color but no clearly visible metal and some cracking. This is the second largest specimen of this type meteorite known currently. I don’t have many (the largest part of this sold as an end piece to a collector) but I did save a number of complete slices which, I believe, are the largest slices of this type meteorite currently available. Of coarse, I broke quite a few up so those of us that just want to add a piece of this unusual material to our collections without spending a relatively large amount can do so.
1) Slices/ part slices:
a) 1.5 grams 15mm x 10mm x 3mm $15.00
b) 2.8 grams 20mm x 12mm x 3mm $25.00
c) 5.5 grams 22mm x 18mm x 4mm $45.00
d) 10.3 grams 35mm x 18mm x 5mm $80.00
e) 20.5 grams 40mm x 31mm x 5mm $150.00
f) 43.4 grams 77mm x 40mm x 4mm $310.00 – complete slice.
g) 92.7 grams 120mm x 50mm x 4mm $650.00 – complete slice.
NWA (13366): Martian meteorite Shegottite, Iherzolitic. Found 2019. Tkw = 417g +.
I think this is only the second time I have ever offered an “Iherzolitic” shergottite. This is a shergottite (basalt rock) but with lots of olivine. This particular meteorite is around 60% olivine (oddly, the olivine is the dark, nearly black, crystals in this rock. This is due to shock). This is really neat looking material. It has an interesting mix of black, green and tan crystals. Just showing pieces (and/ or photos) I sold most of what I was able to get of this before I could get it to a list. This is priced a bit less than ½ of the price per gram I got out of the NWA (1950) (the only other “Iherzolitic” Shergottite I have ever offered) I had a few years ago and that sold out fairly quickly. One note, I did not notice that the smallest pieces (mostly the 2 smallest sizes offered here) were not polished on either side until after I had broken the somewhat larger pieces down to prepared them. It really not all that noticeable (the reason I missed it) but now these are too small and thin for the crude equipment I have to even risk trying to do anything about this. All of these will come in a small plastic display box or small Riker box (these boxes are not in the group photo though).
1) Slices:
a) .29 grams 13mm x 7mm x 1mm $52.00
b) .54 grams 13mm x 10mm x 1.5mm $95.00
c) 1.12 grams 15mm x 13mm x 2mm $190.00
d) 3.1 grams 23mm x 19mm x 2.5mm $495.00
e) 8.5 grams 40mm x 31mm x 2.5mm $1250.00
f) 17.9 grams 75mm x 6mm x 2mm $2500.00 – beautiful ½ slice.
TRANQUILLITYITE:
Tranquillityite is one of three minerals discovered in moon rocks brought back by the Apollo 11 mission that were not known to exist anywhere on Earth. It is an iron, calcium, zirconium, yttrium titanium silicate/ oxide (say THAT three times fast). Two of these minerals were discovered on Earth in the next few years. Tranquillityite though held out until 2011 before any was found in terrestrial materials. It was found as an accessory mineral in mafic (magnesium/ iron rich) igneous rocks at six localities in Western Australia. What I have here are fragments of some of these rocks about an inch to an inch and a half or so across. I don’t have many of these (and don’t think I can get more right now) so I want to avoid selling any on person multiple pieces until I see that the initial order demands have been filled.
Fragment of natural rock broken down to around 3cm or so in size - $30.00
Please note:
Shipping: For small US orders $5 is now needed. Larger orders are now $15 (insurance is extra if desired – I’ll look it up if you want it). Overseas prices have gone up A LOT the past couple years. Now small overseas orders are around $15 (I’ll have to custom quote any larger items/ orders). Registration (recommended on more valuable overseas orders) is $15.
I do have a fax machine that seems to work (but I have to answer it and manually turn it on), so overseas people can contact me that way if they must. How ever, for overseas orders, it probably is best to go ahead and use my brmeteorites@yahoo.com e-mail.
I think this is only the second time I have ever offered an “Iherzolitic” shergottite. This is a shergottite (basalt rock) but with lots of olivine. This particular meteorite is around 60% olivine (oddly, the olivine is the dark, nearly black, crystals in this rock. This is due to shock). This is really neat looking material. It has an interesting mix of black, green and tan crystals. Just showing pieces (and/ or photos) I sold most of what I was able to get of this before I could get it to a list. This is priced a bit less than ½ of the price per gram I got out of the NWA (1950) (the only other “Iherzolitic” Shergottite I have ever offered) I had a few years ago and that sold out fairly quickly. One note, I did not notice that the smallest pieces (mostly the 2 smallest sizes offered here) were not polished on either side until after I had broken the somewhat larger pieces down to prepared them. It really not all that noticeable (the reason I missed it) but now these are too small and thin for the crude equipment I have to even risk trying to do anything about this. All of these will come in a small plastic display box or small Riker box (these boxes are not in the group photo though).
1) Slices:
a) .29 grams 13mm x 7mm x 1mm $52.00
b) .54 grams 13mm x 10mm x 1.5mm $95.00
c) 1.12 grams 15mm x 13mm x 2mm $190.00
d) 3.1 grams 23mm x 19mm x 2.5mm $495.00
e) 8.5 grams 40mm x 31mm x 2.5mm $1250.00
f) 17.9 grams 75mm x 6mm x 2mm $2500.00 – beautiful ½ slice.
TRANQUILLITYITE:
Tranquillityite is one of three minerals discovered in moon rocks brought back by the Apollo 11 mission that were not known to exist anywhere on Earth. It is an iron, calcium, zirconium, yttrium titanium silicate/ oxide (say THAT three times fast). Two of these minerals were discovered on Earth in the next few years. Tranquillityite though held out until 2011 before any was found in terrestrial materials. It was found as an accessory mineral in mafic (magnesium/ iron rich) igneous rocks at six localities in Western Australia. What I have here are fragments of some of these rocks about an inch to an inch and a half or so across. I don’t have many of these (and don’t think I can get more right now) so I want to avoid selling any on person multiple pieces until I see that the initial order demands have been filled.
Fragment of natural rock broken down to around 3cm or so in size - $30.00
Please note:
Shipping: For small US orders $5 is now needed. Larger orders are now $15 (insurance is extra if desired – I’ll look it up if you want it). Overseas prices have gone up A LOT the past couple years. Now small overseas orders are around $15 (I’ll have to custom quote any larger items/ orders). Registration (recommended on more valuable overseas orders) is $15.
I do have a fax machine that seems to work (but I have to answer it and manually turn it on), so overseas people can contact me that way if they must. How ever, for overseas orders, it probably is best to go ahead and use my brmeteorites@yahoo.com e-mail.
