Blaine Reed Meteorites List #282 30SEP2025 - mailed catalog

Blaine Reed Meteorites

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

LIST 282 - September 29, 2025


Greetings,

A note concerning the photos in this offering:
I want everyone receiving this post with imbedded group photos of the items on this list to be aware 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 make any substitution(s) in your order.



BOXHOLE, Australia: Medium octahedrite (IIIAB). Found 1937. Tkw = 500kg.
it has been a long time since I have seen pieces (of any type) of this meteorite. It was one of my starting meteorites. I had (and could get) lots of small pieces of this and certainly had it on my first catalogs (nearly 40 years ago now). Glenn Huss is who I got it from back then. I have had no real/ reliable source of Boxhole since. To be upfront, ALL of these pieces are actually “Oxide/ shale”. But hey, it is what was available of this semi-famous crater forming meteorite. I have heard that this “shale” may actually be kind of “fusion crust” – forming from hot pieces of molten iron reacting with the air during the fall or right after impact. But then, it might just be from larger pieces rusting in the ground for many years (though I don’t recall ever seeing a large iron of any type that has a bunch of this stuff stuck to it. The “shale” always seems to be on its own). Anyway, here is a chance to add a piece of something from this now really hard to get material from impact cratering meteorite.
1) Natural fragments as found:
a) 3.5 grams - 18mm x 15mm x 7mm - $5
b) 7.5 grams - 25mm x 15mm x 7mm - $10
c) 11.0 grams - 30mm x 18mm x 7mm - $14
d) 24.1 grams - 32mm x 23mm x 12mm - $25
e) 56.0 grams - 44mm x 30mm x 15mm - $55




NWA (14617): Ordinary chondrite (L3). Found May 2021. Tkw = 636 grams.
A single stone was found. This is a quite fresh meteorite and shows lots of close packed chondrules. Frankly, this look a lot like NWA (7031) an L3.15 meteorite I offered slices of some years ago. The detailed “sub-typing” was not done on this stone. Not surprised as that is a very expensive and labor (well research) intensive process. As such, this generally only gets done on larger meteorites that look quite strongly like they are a “low” type (3.2, 3.1, ideally something that has a real chance at being an all hallowed 3.00). I find this unfortunate as now MOST type 3 chondrites simply come out as “type 3” with no further identification or notes. I seem to recall that there is/ was a way to get a pretty good idea of the sub-type (chrome content of olivine I believe) but that was voted as not acceptable by the Nomenclature Committee. Regardless, this research notes on this particular stone said that the iron composition spread of the olivine in it indicates that this meteorite is roughly an L 3.5.
1) Slices:
a) 7.5 grams - 30mm x 20mm x 4mm - $27
b) 13.1 grams - 33mm x 22mm x 5mm - $45
c) 22.2 grams - 47mm x 28mm x 5mm - $75
d) 45.8 grams - 55mm x 50mm x 5mm - $150
2) End piece:
a) 84.1 grams - 55mm x 50mm x 12mm - $250 – “main mass”




NWA (15775):Ordinary chondrite (L6). Found 2022. Tkw 14.63kilograms.
A single oriented stone was found. Not sure why it got cut up other than, maybe, it wasn’t oriented enough to be of interest as a whole stone. The interior, however, IS quite nice. It is quite fresh, showing lots of metal and some chondrules (including some that are over a cm in diameter!) in a mottled light tan to medium brown matrix. This stone also takes a nice high polish (not common for fresh L’s). This is because this has been highly shocked. I was told that this was an “impact melt” when I bought these slices. Plausible, I thought. It does show some (but not a huge number) of shock veins and has dark areas that clearly have some shock melting going on (just not enough to call this meteorite an “impact melt”). A good looking meteorite for a great price.
1) Slices:
a) 6.1 grams - 23mm x 16mm x 5mm - $15
b) 13.3 grams - 37mm x 25mm x 5mm - $30
c) 27.8 grams - 52mm x 35mm x 5mm - $62
d) 50.5 grams - 80mm x 40mm x 4mm - $110
e) 100.2 grams - 110mm x 70mm x 4mm - $200
f) 169.3 grams - 105mm x 100mm x 5mm - $340 – complete slice.




GRAPEVINE MESA, Arizona: Carbonaceous chondrite (CBa). Found 2021. Tkw = 500+grams.
I remember seeing pieces of this not long after it was found. I think those were priced around $500 to $1000/grams. But, at that point, not much had been found. It is still the case that not much has been found weight wise BUT there have been quite a few really small pieces found so prices have come down a bit (on the smaller pieces anyway). I got some of these smaller (but not smallest) pieces in Tucson this year. This is an odd meteorite. It is mostly iron (around 70% of a cut surface is iron) with only small amounts of silicate material (but some carbon to give it the “carbonaceous” moniker). I had to research the CBa and CBb thing. The “a” set are really high in iron (which is generally in large pieces/ blobs) and low in silicates (and generally completely lacks fine grained matrix material). These pieces are all natural as found. To be honest, they look (and weigh) more like small iron meteorites than a chondrite of any sort.
1) Natural specimens as found:
a) .15 grams - 5mm x 4mm x 3mm - $37
b) .31 grams - 6mm x 4mm x 3mm - $75
c) .64 grams - 8mm x 6mm x 4mm - $150
d) .80 grams - 9mm x 6mm x 5mm - $180
e) 1.50 grams - 10mm x 10mm x 5mm - $300




NWA (2986): (Shergottite). Found 2006. Tkw = about 550grams.
These are pretty much all complete little individuals. They have been on the ground for a while so they do show weathering (in the form of wind polishing and sand ablation in spots, no rusting or minerals rotting). They all have at least some of their fusion crust remaining (some close to 50% of it) and all have their overall original rounded complete individual shape. In my years in business, I have not really had that many genuine complete individual Mars rocks (plenty of fragments that have been weathered to look like they MIGHT have been an individual). The ones I have had have been quite expensive (but then, most of those were Tissint – a witnessed fall). What pieces of this I could find of this being offered were really high priced (like $1200 or so/gram!). NOT going to even try pricing these like that. Here is a chance to add an affordable “complete individual” Mars rock to your collection.
1) Complete individuals as found:
a) .146 grams - 7mm x 3mm x 3mm - $50
b) .268 grams - 7mm x 5mm x 5mm - $90
c) .354 grams - 7mm x 7mm x 4mm - $115
d) .594 grams - 9mm x 7mm x 6mm - $190
e) 1.268 grams - 12mm x 10mm x 8mm - $380




SAFFORDITE, Arizona: Pseudo Tektite.
I have had these off and on for years but never offered any on a mailed list. But then, these really are NOT associated with meteorites in any real way. Yes, they were (and likely still are) really popular with the New Age crowd (to the point of these bringing over $15/gram a few years ago) and I have had a fair number of meteorite people ask for them as well. I had a piece of this and one of “Columbianite/ Americanite” (a similar looking material from Columbia, South America) go through detailed analysis years ago. The results were exactly what I expected: both are Rhyolitic volcanic glass that has weathered to look like a tektite (sometimes surprisingly so – the reason that Dr. Nininger really believed the pieces coming out of South America were really tektites). These generally transmit a good amount of light through them and have a nice pinkish gray color to them when they do (the few faceted stones I have seen cut from these are also quite pretty). NOT really meteorite related but PLENTY of collectors still want one as they were (for a time) thought to be tektites.
1) Complete specimens as found:
a) 1.0 grams - 12mm x 10mm x 6mm - $6
b) 2.0 grams - 14mm x 10mm x 8mm - $10
c) 3.6 grams - 17mm x 15mm x 11mm - $18
d) 5.5 grams - 21mm x 17mm x 10mm - $25
e) 8.4 grams - 23mm x 19mm x 13mm - $38 – only one this size.


Shipping:
US Shipping: Well, postal rates have increased yet again (gads, I feel like I am having to say this on EVERY new offering these days). I knew that the basic “Forever” stamps went up this July (and I stupidly forgot to buy a bunch before they did). I did not see package rates go up initially. However, once into August, I have seen surprisingly expensive package shipping costs. I just sent out one of my small specimen (as in few grams!) in a small jewelry box in a padded envelope and it cost me over $7 to send it by GROUND!!!. I have also had to pay about $12 to send small Flat-rate Priority boxes. So, I will make US shipping costs $6 for small Ground Advantage for now (until I see whether or not that $7 was a fluke or the new reality) and small priority shipments $12.

Overseas shipping: For the time being, I think I will need to custom quote everything. I have no idea how bad rates may be now. I know that before this recent increase, it cost about $30 for one of my small padded envelopes (First Class) and around $45 to $50 for a small Priority Flat-rate box (about double what they had been before that last rate increase). I am sure there will be real horrors to be discovered as I attempt to calculate things going out of the US now.

Blaine Reed Meteorites -List 133 - after Tucson irons 07MAR2013

Blaine Reed Meteorites -List 133 - after Tucson irons

Blaine Reed
P.O. Box 1141
Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
…………………………………………………………………LIST 133

March 6, 2013

Dear Collectors,

This is going out a day late as I got stuck in Denver for a day longer than I had planned due to bad weather closing the road I need to take home on Monday (didn't get back until late last night).

Now I'd like to make a few somewhat long- winded comments on some things.

FIRST: This is something that I have already lost many hours of time on the phone with (and more in typing e-mails) and want it to get out as far and wide as possible to reduce this work load. I am NOT going to Russia! I know the excitement of a new fall (and this is an important one) and how everyone can't wait to get a piece of it. However a "simple" trip to Russia to buy some of this material is neither simple nor particularly smart (in my opinion) at this point. The government there is trying to put a lid on people taking this stuff (I have heard rumors of them going after the few E-Bay listings of this material there have been) and I CERTAINLY don't want to be the one caught stepping on their toes (or those of others that may be involved in the money side of this fall) in acquiring this stuff. This sounds like a sure recipe for trouble. Also, the price is definitely going to be the highest right now, with many of the locals thinking this stuff is "more valuable than gold" (I wonder who gave them that silly idea on nightly news and national radio programs). Given this current false hype (and the freshness of the event) the locals are very unlikely to want to sell at anything near a reasonable price right now. Over the years, I have observed the hype and high prices of many new falls (and this hype is certainly deserved for the "freshest" new alien on our planet). What I have seen is that the prices for this new material is pretty much always (over a period of a few years any way – inflation can make pretty much anything go up in price over decades) the highest right after the fall. Almost always, there is eventually enough material to bring the prices down, often substantially once the hype has died down and the "gotta own some now" buyers have been satisfied. So my actions on this fall are boringly as such: As there is obviously a lot of material being found I will probably just sit and wait until things cool down a bit and my usual friends and suppliers from Russia get some of this stuff make it available at reasonable prices. These guys are good at dealing with the "issues" of the area and making things quite cheap. Then I hope to offer nice, affordable pieces. I know many of you worry "buy now or never get any". I do understand this view. There are indeed cases where the material never makes it into collector's hands in substantial enough quantities to bring the prices down (or even satisfy the initial demand), but this is rare. My advice has always been; Buy the smallest piece of a new fall that will keep you from loosing sleep at night over not owning a piece. This way you will have a piece but not be betting the ranch on it. Later, when things settle down, buy a bigger piece (if you still want one). Most likely, the price per gram will be less than it was when the news was fresh. Likely worst case is you might end up paying a similar price as when it was new (I am having real trouble coming up with an example where even this has been the case recently, even Sutter's Mill, Alahatta Sitta and Katol recently have dropped quite a bit from their original prices). Having seen this time and time again over the years (with many specific examples I won't go into here) I really DO NOT want to get tied up in the early high prices (hoping to get a little bit higher prices on the way to cover my expenses) and then end up having everyone who bought a piece from me upset with me if/when the value comes crashing down months later.

SECOND: Many of you sent e-mails expecting responses while I was at the show. Unfortunately, I really do not have e-mail access at the show. I don't even bring a computer – Blake does but he is only in Tucson for a few days at the beginning and end of the show these days. The hotel has wireless but it is very sketchy in my room (works best while sitting on the toilet with one foot in the bathtub). Even if these things weren't an issue, the simple truth of the matter is I simply don't have time to do e-mails during the show. I know, hard to believe but here is the general schedule. I wake at around 7AM, make/ have coffee, take a shower, call home perhaps, set up the room (move/ clean cases, re-stock bins set out new material etc.), have breakfast and then I have 20 minutes maybe to walk around a bit and maybe buy some things from the folks set up at my hotel before I have to get my door open by 10AM (though I often had people pounding on the door asking me to open much earlier many days so I didn't even get this little bit of "break" some days). Then it is all people all day. I generally had the room open until 10PM most nights (but much later some nights if people were hanging out). Then it was take the stuff off the bed, set up clothes and such for the next day and get to bed around 11:30 or midnight if I was lucky. Then wake up the next day and start over (rinse and repeat) for 16 days. I know you may think I should be able to do e-mail while trying to run the room during the day but this is really not the case. The foot traffic was fairly slow but still busy enough that I was never even able to get out of the room for more than (literally) a few minutes before being radioed that some one or something required me to return (I never even had the time to go through a watch and clock magazine I had brought with me, expecting to finish it during "slow times". Nor did I have the chance to go see all of the other dealers and friends at other hotels). Plus, I think it is a bit rude, even bad (show anyway) business perhaps, to ignore people in your room so you can pay more attention to your computer or phone. I know, the world is a different place these days and I, perhaps, need to update my thinking. However, a dinner I had with friends a couple years ago kind of burned this bias into my mind. I had not seen them quite some time (years) but they all spent the entire time playing/ texting with their phones. Hardly a word among us was spoken. Left me kind of feeling "what's the point of this get together?" when it was obvious all anybody really wanted to do is focus not on the people around them but on the world in their phones. So, I do know some of you were not happy that I did not handle the e-mails while gone, but I really honestly do not have the ability or time while at the show. I do try to at least go through them and deal with any critical things right before and right after (as soon as I can borrow a computer) though. However, it takes me nearly a week more before I am home, unpacked caught up and more or less "back in business". I apologize for this, but I really don't see a way around this problem at this point.

Anyway, enough of all of that. Here are a few items (irons this time) that were left with me at the show. Grab them now before they get sent back to the owners.

Enjoy!

BOXHOLE, Australia: Medium Octahedrite (IIIAB). Found 1937.
It has been a long time since I have had any piece o this meteorite and I can't recall ever having one this large. The Boxhole's I recall were all few grams to few tens of grams in size. Now here is a nice shaped and sculpted 429 gram individual! Even better yet it has great provenance (important as some Boxhole pieces look so much like Henbury that sometimes you wonder if…..). This comes with a Ron Hartman Meteorite Collection label.
429 gram natural individual – 85mm x 55mm x 20mm - $1300

CAMPO DEL CIELO, Argentina: Coarse octahedrite (IAB). Found 1576.
This is a really interesting slice that Darryl Pitt left with me. As you can imagine, it must be aesthetically pleasing if he had it. This was labeled as a "Transitional silicated" piece and that it truly is. About two thirds of the piece is heavily silicated, showing distinct clast texture to the silicates (looking very much like Udei Station or Landes). The other third is pure clean iron. One side of this piece is polished and the other is etched. A really nice and interesting specimen.
99.3 gram silicated complete slice – 100mm x 70mm x 3mm - $450

CANYON DIABLO, Arizona: Coarse octahedrite (IAB). Found 1891.
Here is a really interesting shaped "rim specimen". This is a nice sculpted thin individual that has a metallic ring to it when tapped. These sculpted generally thin pieces were found near the edge of the crater. These will not etch if you polish them (I know this from experience). I was told that there delicate shape (and lack of etching) is from them being highly heated during the blast that formed the crater (I think it was Glenn Huss that told me about these). Anyway, this is a really nice natural individual with an interesting thin shallow dish shape.
224.4 gram natural individual – 90mm x 55mm x 10mm - $280 SOLD

GIBEON, Namibia; Fine octahedrite (IVA).873.6 gram complete slice – 210mm x 150mm x 4mm - $3600
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GIBEON, Namibia; Fine octahedrite (IVA). Found 1836.
This stuff has gotten surprisingly hard to come by these days. I sold ALL of my small pieces at the show and have people waiting for me to pull out all the rest of my small pieces (I'll be changing my main catalog to etched Seymchan iron). This is a really nice complete slice at a price well below what I bulk lot wholesaled the smaller pieces for. I could easily sell this to those 2 customers as well if I was will to cut it into smaller squares (these are jewelry artists that are wanting my pieces). I really don't want to do that to this piece to make the sale (the fact that it has been cold, snowing and windy since I got home certainly helps make that decision). I got this from a collector in Texas right before the show. It was never coated so it had some minor rusting along natural cracks near the outer edge (as many Gibeons have). This is etched on both sides. Excellent slice!
873.6 gram complete slice – 210mm x 150mm x 4mm - $3600

HENBURY, Australia: Medium octahedrite (IIIAB). Found 1931.
Here are a couple nice natural pieces I got from the same person. The smaller is pretty typical shrapnel shape. The larger is a really nice piece with nice shape and nice sculpting. These are priced at (or even slightly below) what the Australian sources are charging for Henbury these days. Frankly, I am quite surprised this big piece didn't sell at the show (but then it's a lot of grams so not a cheap specimen).
a) 66.7 gram natural shrapnel shape individual – 46mm x 33mm x 10mm - $130
b) 787 gram sculpted individual – 120mm x 75mm x 30mm - $1575

MUNDRIBILLA, Australia: Medium octahedrite. Found 1911.
Here is an interesting shaped individual. It has a fairly large deep hole on one end giving it a quasi pac-man look. Surprisingly, this nearly 200g piece is actually fairly large for what is available for this material. This has not been cleaned in any way and has a really nice mottled medium brown patina. A really neat specimen.
184.7 gram natural individual – 50mm x 40mm x 30mm - $170 SOLD