BLAINE REED METEORITES- LIST #289 recently mailed offering 24SEP2026

Blaine Reed Meteorites
P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
brmeteorites@yahoo.com
LIST 289 - September 24, 2026

Dear Collectors
This is only my second list of the year. I skipped the one I would usually have done in March or April. Partly because I was traveling and partly because I simply fell so far behind that I lacked material prepared and ready to go onto a list back at that point. I have had some difficulties lately getting material that is affordable (reasonably priced anyway) in quantities that these offerings require and not go bankrupt getting it. Trying to get things that are interesting types or names that I have not offered in the past is more difficult yet. Don’t even ask about new falls. Those start at $hundreds/ gram typically.

One thing I had completely forgotten about when I made up the mailed version of this offering (already in the mail with several people already having it) is that in a few weeks, I will have been doing this for 40 years now! I had planned on "starting business" in January of 1987. However, back in those times you had to take out magazine ads (no internet) and wait. not knowing much about how the magazine world worked, i took out ads for the December issues of Rock and Gem and Lapidary Journal.I assumed those would come out in December. I would have to mail catalogs (yes, paper in an envelope) to anyone that requested one. i figured it would be some time (week or two) before any of those would produce a sale. Nope, I got a call (and my phone number was not even in the ad) from someone in Erie, PA asking for a catalog in earlyish/ mid October. Somehow he had gotten his December Rock and Gem magazine in early October. He got the catalog and placed an order a few days later. So, my first sales were around the third week of October in 1987 (gads, I am starting to feel old remembering all of that so long ago).

A note concerning the photos in this offering:
I want everyone receiving this post with embedded group photos of the items on this list that the item pictured MAY NOT be the identical item you receive (except for cases where I have clearly labeled an item as “the only one this size” or similar). I usually have (and sell) multiple pieces of each size of the items listed (sometimes MANY of them – far to many to put all in a photograph for people to pick from). What I normally do is send the first person that asks for a particular item the largest piece available in whatever size range it is that the specimen they are buying belongs to (when I send a piece that is not in the photo, you generally get a very similar but slightly larger piece). This came about as MOST of my sales from these periodic larger catalogs come from the paper mailed version of this offering where no photos exist so customers don’t know exactly what the piece they ordered looks like (and are usually quite happy to receive a slightly larger specimen instead). So, you can certainly request the exact item in the group photo and I am happy to send it if someone else hasn’t already requested it. Please let me know if you would likely ONLY be happy with receiving that actual pictured piece(s) and I will NOT do any substitution(s) in your order.




CANYON DIABLO, Arizona; Coarse octahedrite (IAB). Found 1891.
I have not been able to get any of this for a few years now. This year, I have fallen into a fair amount of it. However, much of it is pieces that are not particularly pretty but are particularly cheap. In fact, the prices I have on these are likely around the prices I had on Canyon Diablos more than 20 years ago. The owner/ seller of these did not like them. I have to admit, they were pretty ratty. They certainly had a fair amount of rust scaling and attached caliche. I did some serious work on these. First, I removed the caliche WITHOUT using acid. I then put these in a neutralizing solution for a while, rinsed with distilled water and then dried them in the sun on a 100+ degree day (I had to wear gloves to pick them up after that). I then wire brushed the heck out of them. Actually, they turned out pretty nice! They do show some layering and cracks but, for the most part, they are not all that different than many I have in my “regular” Canyon Diablo pile. Anyway, here is a chance to own a paperweight sized (or pocket piece) Canyon Diablo at a decades ago price.
1) Cleaned natural fragments:
a) 29.8 grams - 25mm x 15mm x 15mm - $20
b) 73.6 grams - 40mm x 30mm x 12mm - $45
c) 137.9 grams - 57mm x 42mm x 15mm - $80
d) 202.2 grams - 80mm x 30mm x 20mm - $110
e) 410.8 grams - 60mm x 50mm x 30mm - $205
f) 564.7 grams - 73mm x 50mm x 35mm - $250 – only piece this size.



NWA 18012: Ordinary chondrite (L5). Found 2025. Tkw = 43.27kg.
I got this stuff this last Tucson. A friend and I shared the lot. He got the far bigger portion. These were all angular fragments likely resulting from hitting rocks during the fall or freeze/thaw action later. I took some (a bunch, actually) time to cut most of those into nice end pieces. Thought this is listed as a “W3” weathering, it is surprisingly fresh. It actually looks a LOT like the Quitovac, Mexico I had a few years ago. This shows some light colored (some of which are fairly large) chondrules, lots of fresh metal and sulfides in a mottled light tan (nearly white) with orange and brown spots scattered throughout matrix. Nice and very affordable example of a fresh stone meteorite to carry around to show people what a meteorite looks like or to just have. I have these priced below what they would be if they were in one of my “unknown” NWA buckets.
1) Cut fragments/ end pieces:
a) 19.0 grams - 40mm x 28mm x 10mm - $9
b) 34.1 grams - 46mm x 28mm x 12mm - $15
c) 50.5 grams - 55mm x 35mm x 16mm - $20
d) 74.6 grams - 60mm x 45mm x 15mm - $30
e) 112.3 grams - 80mm x 45mm x 15mm - $40




WILUNA, Australia: Ordinary chondrite (H5). Fell Sept. 2, 1967. Tkw = about 150kg.
It has been a loooong time since I had enough of this to put on a list. So long in fact that I had completely lost my information cards for this meteorite (I had to make new ones). This fall formed a strewn field that was about 4 miles long and about 2 miles wide running in a NW to SE direction. Pieces found ranged from a couple grams to 10kg. I got a handful (NOT a large handful) of these wonderful little pieces back in April. These are all nice complete little individuals as found. I can see only a few tiny areas of secondary crust on a couple of these. The crust on all is thick and fresh (ranging from deep dark chocolate brown to black). It is clear that these pieces were not picked up long after the fall. Each of these is in its own gemstone display holder.
1) Complete individuals as found:
a) 3.3 grams - 15mm x 13mm x 8mm - $65
b) 5.0 grams - 18mm x 15mm x 11mm - $95
c) 6.4 grams - 18mm x 12mm x 12mm - $120
d) 8.2 grams - 24mm x 15mm x 13mm - $150
e) 10.3 grams - 21mm x 18mm x 15mm - $185



FEZZOU 002, Morocco: Achondrite (Angrite).Found 2023. Tkw = 12.37kg.
This stone was found broken into two pieces, each with black vesicular crust. Angrites are one of the very rarest of meteorite by total known weight of its type of all known specimens in existence. They represent some of the very oldest rocks in the solar system, having crystalized as long as 4.564billion years ago, only 2my to 4my after the formation of the calcium aluminum inclusions found in other meteorites (best shown in CV3 types). They are likely from along ago destroyed body that was somewhere in size between the Moon and Mars. These are all part slices broken from a larger complete slice I picked up in Denver last year.
1) Part slices:
a) .9grams - 14mm x 10mm x 2mm - $55
b) 1.7 grams - 15mm x 15mm x 2mm - $100
c) 3.6 grams - 30mm x 17mm x 2mm - $205
d) 7.1 grams - 37mm x 26mm x 2mm - $395
e) 13.3 grams - 50mm x 40mm x 2mm - $725
f) 25.0 grams - 70mm x 56mm x 2mm - $1250




ADRAR 017, Algeria: Lunar (Troctolitic anorthosite). Found 2025. Tkw = 18.2kg.
I don’t normally like to put two achondrites on an offering at one time. It is just that I skipped my “Spring list” and had two very important/ special things to offer (this and the Angrite above). Troctolites are a subsurface cooled rock type that consists of olivine, Ca-rich plagioclase and minor pyroxenes. This is a Lunar rock type that I have never had (well, enough of to offer on a mailed list anyway). To be honest, these don’t look all that different from many anorthositic breccias but they are a different rock type. Obtaining this material is what (finally) allowed me to have a nice piece of this type in my collection. I don’t have a lot of this but enough that many of you should now be able to have a piece in your collection as well. At the time I typed this, there were only a total of 17 lunar troctolites recorded in the world (all be it, a couple of them were quite large). Most of these, I will put in a small plastic display box (the ones that fit anyway) when I send them out.
1) Slices/ part slices:
a) .45 grams - 8mm x 8mm x 3mm - $40
b) .96 grams - 18mm x 7mm x 3mm - $85
c) 1.78 grams - 17mm x 14mm x 3mm - $150
d) 3.08 grams - 23mm x 20mm x 3mm - $250 - not piece in photo.
e) 5.79 grams - 40mm x 23mm x 3mm - $450




PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS:
This is a really cool thing a friend showed me in Tucson. It is a table of (mostly) REAL element bits (some are compounds as some are too dangerous to play around with in their pure state) sealed in a lucite slab. I collect elements and have a pretty good larger collection (though I am very shy on Ruthenium and Osmium) and most of these do look real. I got these right after Tucson and then tried to get more later. I saw that some were now completely missing some elements (like gold, but then, at that particular moment, hold was around $5500/ ounce). And some of these, despite being listed as “real elements in lucite” were really just painted pictures of the elements on the back of the lucite. Of course, those I returned and have not bought any since. I have two sizes. I have several of the smaller but only one of the larger. Given the problems I had with the last ones I tried to purchase, I am not inclined to try and order more for now.
1) Small - 150mm x 115mm x 20mm - $60
2) Large – 200mm x 125mm x 25mm - $100


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Shipping:
US Shipping: Well, the post office has been raising prices at a faster rate lately. My small specimen in a small jewelry box in a padded envelope now costs me at least $8 now! And that is for “ground Advantage”. A small priority flat-rate box is now a bit over $12, medium closer to $22. Some of the things on here (thinking the bigger Canyon Diablo pieces here) I’ll probably have to custom quote. However, I have not seen such huge penalties I saw in the past when I have used my own boxes lately.

Overseas shipping: This has changed a lot lately. And, yes, prices are way higher than just a few months ago. The few overseas packages I have sent lately tell me that the usual jewelry box in a padded envelope going ‘First-class” is close to $25 now. A small priority flat-rate box is around $55 to $60 (!!!). However, the bigger change is that I now have to pay all VAT, Duties and other taxes upfront when I send something out of the country. This cost me $40 on a recent shipment. I quoted the postage and the customer paid. I go to make the shipping label and I get billed the VAT and duties – another $39. Nowhere did I see these charges shown or labeled UNTIL I went to “check out” (pay for the shipping). I will, obviously, have to custom quote ALL out of US shipments now. I just hope there is some way for me to see the VAT taxes BEFORE I quote the shipping.

Blaine Reed Meteorites for Sale- List 252 22AUG2022

Blaine Reed Meteorites
P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
brmeteorites@yahoo.com

LIST 252 - August 22, 2022


Dear Collectors

Here is the “other” list I mentioned I’d be doing when I sent out the last one. It got delayed for a number of reasons. It seems everyday lately I get tied up with some kind of new battle of one sort or another. I (more or less) finish one and a new one pops up.

DENVER SHOW:
Yep, this is coming waaay too soon for me. I am trying to get ready but having limited success. Anyway, this year it is September 9th through the 17th. I am at the same spot – Frisco meeting room on the west-side of the convention center at the Crowne Plaza (I-70 and Chambers road). I’ll be open 10 am (some days earlier) until - ?? I like to stay open later but the show folks have been locking the doors around 7pm (you can still reach me by going through the lobby doors). I’ll stay open as late (reasonably – no 1am or 2am nights) as people are visiting.

On to today’s list!:

FRANCONIA, Arizona: Ordinary chondrite (H5). Found October 31, 2002. Tkw = about 100kg.
Well somebody got quite the Halloween treat here. It was a meteorite hunter that just thought the area looked good for hunting (fairly level, lack of vegetation and natural rocks) and gave it a shot. Yep, he managed to stumble into one of the largest Arizona strewn fields currently known. I got these three pieces in Tucson this year from a metal-detector guy who found them himself many years ago (he couldn’t remember if it was 12 or 15 years). Anyway, all three of these are complete individuals. The two smaller have complete primary fusion crust coverage. The largest piece (the second largest Franconia piece I have ever had) looks like it is a “half stone” (about 60% primary crust and then about 40% “broken” surface). Well, the guy that found this found it in two pieces. He (rather poorly) glued the pieces together (I cleaned off a lot of the excess glue but plenty still remains). He did look for more pieces, recognizing that there was, obviously half missing. He found no further pieces. I know why. Careful inspection of the “broken” surface shows tiny areas of melted (crust) material. So, this “broken” area is actually an area of very light secondary fusion crust from this stone breaking very late in its fall.
a) 162.9gram complete individual – 47mm x 36mm x 35mm - $150
b) 409.4 gram complete individual – 60mm x 55mm x 50mm - $350
c) 913.6 gram individual ~40% secondary crust – 140mm x 60mm x 50mm - $700



NWA (2995): Lunar: Feldspathic breccia. Found 2005. Tkw = 538 grams.
NWA (2995) was noted (and still is) as one of the very best looking Lunar meteorites. It has the classic white to light gray clasts in a medium gray background. Pieces of this meteorite have always commanded a premium because of this. I sold this to its current owner (it was a consigned specimen back then as it is now) back in January of 2016. This is a 3.08g complete slice that cost him $2200 at the time (this was priced at $4500 not a lot earlier). Wanting to put $ towards travel and other things (photography equipment I believe) he says “sell”. At this point, $1500 is being asked. Yes, high (per gram) when compared to other more recent lunar material but, by far, the cheapest I have seen a piece of this really pretty moon rock. Also, for history sake (?), included is the original invoice I sent with the piece when I sold it to him in 2016.
3.08 gram complete slice – 42mm x 30mm x 1mm - $1500

NWA (7983): Achondrite (Ureilite). Found 2012, Tkw = 424 grams.
I got these pieces in Tucson this year. They are nice thin pieces and clearly show the classic triple-junction crystallization texture typical for Ureilites (and Brachinites actually). These pieces are NOT polished. Another classic feature of ureilites is that they are often nearly impossible to cut and polish (so much so that slices of ureilites like these are very uncommon). To be honest, I never even tried to polish these. I have destroyed enough saw blades and sanding belts prepping other material lately, I really didn’t want to risk it. Part of this is a partially sanded/ polished slice looks terrible. It is kind of an all or nothing deal. Do ALL of it or don’t start. So, be ready to donate hours (a day or two) and lots of equipment (many, many silicon carbide sanding belts or more than $100 of diamond ones) or don’t begin. I chose the “don’t start” as I can see one side of the large slice here that the saw blade that cut it really struggled – indicating that this is NOT one of the (very rare) easy to polish ureilites. It turns out the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up or this says “diamonds ubiquitous” (means lots of them everywhere in this thing).Thankfully, each of these has at least one side (the smaller piece – both sides) where the cutting went pretty well – leaving an unpolished saw cut surface that is not distracting.
a) 10.3 gram part slice – 65mm x 30mm x 1.5mm - $200
b) 45.1 gram complete slice – 80mm x 70mm x 2mm - $800

PEEKSKILL, New York: Ordinary chondrite (H6). Fell October 9, 1992. Tkw = 12.57kg.
I remember making the mold of this meteorite. I had to apply a layer of latex (and occasional cheese cloth) like every 15 minutes. Nope, didn’t get much (any?) sleep that night. I flew back home (from northern Montana to Durango) when done, getting home quite late. Then another night of almost no sleep. It was back to the Durango (well, La Plata County if you want to be a stickler about names) airport around 5:30 or so the next morning for a ride to Germany. Anyway, the mold worked out really well so the meteorite was then cut. This is a part slice from that cutting. This slice does have a little bit of brown staining (mild oxidation) but clearly shows the classic breccia texture of this meteorite. Also classic for this fall that totaled a Chevy Malibu is super thick (like over 1mm thick) fusion crust (that all of us worried might peel off when the stone was removed from the mold I had made but, thankfully, didn’t). The longest side of this triangular shaped slice is a crusted edge showing this super thick crust. This comes in an Impactika membrane box but it is not in that box to show the piece better in the group photo.
2.90 gram part slice – 25mm x 11mm x 4mm - $1000

RED DEER HILL, Canada: Ordinary chondrite (L6). Found 1975. Tkw = 25kg.
Aside from Buzzard Coulee and White Court, I’ve had very few Canadian meteorites in recent years. I got these pieces from the same person I got the Peekskill listed above from. The smaller one has a Kansas Meteorite Society COA. The larger piece’s info is still missing (but being looked for). Regardless, the appearance and textures of both pieces are identical. This is NOT cheap for a chondrite find, admittedly, but pretty much any and all Canadian pieces I have offered (regardless of “cheapness”) have all sold very rapidly (and, usually, back to collectors in Canada). Each of these are in a membrane box but are not in these for the group photo to better show the specimens themselves. Both pieces are wedged in their cut, so the listed thickness is just something of a mid-range.
a) 2.46 gram part slice – 15mm x 14mm x 3.5mm - $75
b) 6.58 gram part slice – 25mm x 20mm x mm - $200

TULIA (a), Texas: Ordinary chondrite. (H5). Found 1917. Tkw = 78+kg.
This piece is from a REAL Tulia(a) specimen I have had tucked away for years. I say “real” as Tulia(a) has suffered something of an identity crisis most of its existence. The Dimmitt strewn field is quite close (just to the west). Back when ‘Tulia’ was studied, nobody had considered two different meteorite strewn fields could be that close together. As such, a (more commonly found, but found slightly further west) Dimmitt stone was studied and reported as Tulia. So, “officially”, most of the records have Tulia(a) as an H3/4. Nope, that is what Dimmitt is (well, even that is a bit different now. Dimmitt has been reclassified as an H3.8 I believe). The real Tulia is an H5 and shows a good amount of fresh metal (Dimmitt rarely shows any). Anyway, this is a guaranteed real sample of Tulia (a).
22.6 gram end piece- 40mm x 22mm x 12mm - $55

TULIA (b), Texas: Ordinary chondrite, (L6). Found 1917, recognized later. Tkw = 4.4+kg.
Now, just to show what a mess the Tulia meteorite area is, in addition to Dimmits getting mixed in, we have at least one L-chondrite(*) in the mix. A couple of pieces of “Tulia” were recovered and sitting in museum collections (Chicago Field Museum and British Museum). Nope, they weren’t “Tulia” actually, they were L-chondrites. I don’t know when this was finally realized, but it turned out that TCU had a couple as well. I managed to get a 1400 gram individual of this “new” meteorite from them (helping them identify it and keep a larger piece of the same material for their collection) years ago. This part slice is (likely my last) piece from that 1400g piece. This shows nice weathered fusion crust along 50% of its edges.

*- I have yet another L chondrite from the area. It is very fresh (nice fusion crust) and had lots of chondrules that looks certainly to be a type 4 (certainly NOT a 6). I spent the money years ago on it to have the chemistry run and found it has pretty much identical Faylite (iron in olivine) numbers as the known Tulia (b) L6. Despite this, I am absolutely CERTAIN it is a new meteorite (it has obviously been on the ground far less time than Plainview, which likely fell in 1903) but no way to “prove” it (and I have to little to try and report it as a new meteorite, unfortunately).
17.6 gram part slice – 38mm x 2mm x 7mm - $60

Shipping: For small US orders $5 is needed now. Rates have gone up yet more this year and now the cheapest I can send anything is right at $5. Add $ for the padded envelope or box, jewelry boxes, etc and, in most cases, I am still loosing a little even at $5. Larger orders are now $9 to $16 (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 $16 (Canada seems to be right around $14). I’ll have to custom quote any larger items/ orders (both local and overseas). Registration (recommended on more valuable overseas orders) is $16.

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. However, for overseas orders, it probably is best to go ahead and use my brmeteorites@yahoo.com e-mail when possible.