Blaine Reed Meteorites -LIST 261 03MAY2023

Blaine Reed Meteorites
P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
brmeteorites@yahoo.com
LIST 261 - May 3, 2023

Dear Collectors
Here is the e-mail version of my much delayed “Spring/ after Tucson” list. I have been so busy with various things that I came close to not doing this offering. However, I have had a number of people asking me “when is your new list coming out”. The answer is “Now”.
One important note: I have to be out of town May 9th and 10th. So, if you try to reach me either of those days, you will likely not be able to and will have to wait until Thursday the 11th (assuming no disasters that end up getting me stuck on the wrong side of the mountains an extra day or two anyway).

A note concerning the photos in this offering:
I want everyone receiving this post with imbedded 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 (three times a year) 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.




GEBEL KAMIL, Egypt: Iron. Ni-rich ataxite (ungrouped). Found 2008.
Yes, I know I have offered plenty of this in the past. However, these pieces are special. It has been said that “meteorites do not hit the ground hot”. Yes, that IS true for something like 99.99% of them. However, these pieces are clearly an exception to that “rule”. These pieces each have a substantial patch (or several) of black bubbly glass adhering to them. This is from them hitting the local sand after the impact still hot enough to turn some of that sand into glass that ended up sticking to the meteorite. I suppose this should not be too surprising, given that Gebel was a crater forming impact, We have all (well, most of us anyway) seen impactites and impact glasses from some of the larger impact crater meteorites. However, I think that this is the first meteorite that I have ever seen showing melted stuff attached to it (aside from a very special and very expensive Portales Valley, NM piece I had years ago that had just the right wide metal vein trapped in the center of a mostly stone meteorite that melted a small patch of blue tarp to it when it landed). I went through a pretty good pile of this material and found few pieces that had any glass on them and much fewer still that showed relatively large (easily visible) amounts of it. Not cheap for “Gebel” in general, I realize, but these are special pieces!
1) Individuals as found
a) 2.8 grams - 5mm x 10mm x 4mm - $15 - not in the photo
b) 5.1 grams - 18mm x 15mm x 5mm - $25
c) 8.0 grams - 22mm x 18mm x 6mm - $38
d) 12.3 grams - 22mm x 21mm x 6mm - $57
e) 20.0 grams - 37mm x 17mm x 11mm - $90
f) 24.9 grams - 27mm x 24mm x 11mm - $110



ABA PANU, Nigeria: Ordinary chondrite (L3), S4, W0. Fell April 19, 2018. Tkw = 160kg.
Here are some slices of a really nice and really fresh type 3 chondrite. The fireball from the fall of this meteorite was recorded by NASA’s Center for Near Earth Objects Studies. The meteor arrived traveling at 20.9 km/ second and detonated at 30km high, releasing .23 kilotons of energy. Cutting reveals a beautiful light to medium gray interior filled with lots of chondrules, chondrule fragments and some angular to sub-rounded clasts (both light and dark). This meteorite has suffered very strong shock. This shock hardened this meteorite to the point of making it the currently hardest known meteorite (I know I had trouble even breaking these thing slices down into smaller pieces). Most of these pieces have not really been polished. They were cut with a wire saw, so saw marks remaining are not very visible (you have to really look for them to see them). I choose not to try and “fix” this as any polishing attempt at all would likely only result in making the chondrules harder to see (mushy) and just darken the overall appearance of this beautiful as is meteorite.
1) Slices:
a) 2.9 grams - 25mm x 12mm x 2mm - $35
b) 4.9 grams - 33mm x 19mm x 2.5mm - $56
c) 10.0 grams - 45mm x 26mm x 2.5mm - $110
d) 19.5 grams - 50mm x 45mm x 2mm - $210
e) 36.4 grams - 65mm x 53mm x 3mm - $370
f) 71.0 grams - 120mm x 62mm x 3mm - $700
g) 150.9 grams - 140mm x 120mm x 3mm - $1450 – beautiful full slice.

NWA (11026): Ordinary chondrite. (LL4), S4, W2. Found 2016. Tkw = 385 grams.
A single stone was found and later classified at UCLA. The research work showed this to be a member of the relatively rare LL4 group. Thin sections showed well-defined chondrules and some twinned pyroxenes but these are hard to see in a hand specimen as they are in a somewhat shock darkened matrix. Reflecting light off of a polished surface shows a lot of chondrules (some armored) and lots of fresh metal and sulfides. Not visually striking at first glance but nice and interesting when looked at closer. I have very little of this material (I got well under half of the stone that was found) so contact me quickly if you want a piece of this one.Slices: a) 4.1 grams - 19mm x 18mm x 4mm - $20
b) 8.0 grams - 35mm x 19mm x 4mm - $38
c) 12.4 grams - 43mm x 34mm x 3mm - $60 – not in photo..

2) End piece:
a) 57.9 grams - 40mm x 34mm x 20mm - $200




MURCHISON, Australia: Carbonaceous chondrite (CM2). Fell September 28, 1969.
I really, really thought I was completely out of this stuff. I had a person call and ask for a “small” piece of Murchison around the time I was doing inventory work. I told them I was completely out. I later remembered that, at one time, I had small fragments I had put in a capsule and then put that in a magnifier box. I knew I had sold out of all of those that I had in inventory but thought that, maybe, I might still have the “reference” (original) capsule I had made up and used to compare ones I made to sell (I tried to have a roughly equal amount in the ones I sold. The reference one came from my own personal piece of Murchison I had from years earlier). Well, I DID find that as well as another gram or so of “personal collection” fragments and crumbs with it! Still having the capsules and some of the magnifier boxes, I decided to make up more of the same kind of specimens I had offered years earlier (fragments/ crumbs in a capsule in a magnifier box). These all are made up of fragments that are from around 1mm to 3mm or so in size. I did a rough weight calculation (starting material weight divided by the number of capsules I made) and came up with these averaging around .05g (actually, closer to .06g). I wasn’t able to make a lot of these but decided to offer them here anyway as I have had A LOT of people asking for Murchison lately.
1) Around .05g+ of fragments and crumbs in capsule in magnifier box - $40







NWA (14016): HED achondrite (Eucrite, melt breccia). Found 2020. Tkw = 29.4kg.
This is a meteorite I picked up in Tucson. I really liked its Moon rock like look and its really cheap (for any sliced achondrite) price. This meteorite shows angular to rounded eucrite clasts (that range from nearly white to brownish gray) in a “sparse” melted matrix. Some pieces of this show wider melt veins (around a cm or two wide) that show flow structure and often have some vesicles. As with most HED meteorites, this one does not have strange/ unusual isotopic contents or mineralogy and, as such, is a rock from the surface of the asteroid Vesta. This is a great meteorite for people that want a larger specimen with the moon rock look but for a small fraction of the price.Slices: a) 7.5 grams - 25mm x 22mm x 4mm - $30
b) 15.2 grams - 32mm x 32mm x 4mm - $60
c) 24.4 grams - 50mm x 35mm x 4mm - $92
d) 49.2 grams - 70mm x 55mm x 5mm - $180
e) 100.8 grams - 95mm x 95mm x 3mm - sold.
f) 259.8 grams - 180mm x 125mm x 5mm - $850 – complete slice.

2) End piece:
a) 1293.7 grams - 200mm x 130mm x 33mm - $3500




METEOR CRATER POST CARD:
I offered some of these a few years ago. Those ones were based on a slightly different picture of the crater. The ones I offered last time had the entire crater in the picture, on these cards, the left side of the crater falls off the edge. These cards, like the ones I offered earlier, are likely from the 1930’s and 1940’s, and are from a colorized (painted) black and white picture. MOST of these have an added secondary crater North of Meteor Crater. There IS such a thing in reality, but it is very indistinct (I have actually been in it). These cards make it look like a real moon type crater. I have quite a number of varieties of these cards, if you consider various things like “distributed by” the two different (real and modified) picture versions and such. Most of these “varieties” I am gong to offer in sets, as these “different” ones I only had one, two or three of in total (each set will have each picture style in them). I have ONLY ONE SET of each set size available. As I did before, shipping costs are included in the price (to US, overseas may be an extra $1 or so depending upon how many are ordered). For the most part, I’ll be sending these in a regular envelope on their own.
a) “Real” Crater picture: $5
b) Picture with secondary crater added: $5
c) Set of 3 different - $15
d) Set of 4 different - $20

Shipping info:
For small US orders $6 is now needed Larger orders are now $17 (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 $20.

IMPORTANT FAX NOTE: My fax machine seems to have blown itself apart a few weeks ago. Someone tried to send me a fax and I hit “start” and sat back waiting for it to do its thing. Nope. The machine pretty much came apart internally.(some plastic gears have broken from age). I have looked into fixing it and have been looking to find a cheap replacement (though I do question doing that as I think I have only used the machine maybe a couple times in each of the past 5 years or so). So far, not much luck (unless I spend real $ and buy new). So, for the time being, I do not have a fax machine.

Blaine Reed Meteorites for Sale- List 230

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

LIST 230

September 26, 2019

Here is the e-mail version of my recently mailed list. I will post the group photos to my Yahoo group archives (if it will let me, I have had some difficulties in the past) but I can also e-mail them individually to anyone that wants to see a particular lot.

PLEASE NOTE: I will be out of town October 24th – 29th and November 6th – 13th (as well as late November – early December for Costa Rica).


CAMPO DEL CIELO, Argentina: Coarse octahedrite (IAB), silicated. Found 1576.
Here is an item that is a bit different. I have bought a fairly large amount of Campo nuggets over the past few years. Most are the usual rounded edge, angular all metal nuggets with only a possible hint of graphite or silicates. These pieces here are all very silicate-rich (I have been plucking them out of the batches of nuggets I get). Many (if not all) of these are probably better than 50% graphite/ silicates. Some pieces have these silicates as large nodules or zones. Others have them as fairly small blebs evenly scattered throughout (making the piece look more like a mesosiderite). Nothing super special, but cheap and (I thought) kind of cool/ interesting.
1) Tumbled/ cleaned nuggets that are very silicate-rich:
a) 4.7 grams - 17mm x 10mm x 7mm - $9 – not the piece in the group photo.
b) 7.5 grams - 18mm x 13mm x 10mm - $15
c) 10.2 grams - 18mm x 16mm x 8mm - $20
d) 15.3 grams - 22mm x 13mm x 11mm - $30


HOPE CREEK, Alaska: Ordinary chondrite (LL6). Found summer 1998. Tkw = 9.83kg.
Here are slices (and a nice “book-end” that stands up nicely on its own: 96.0 grams – 75mm x 45mm x 12mm for $570) that I cut from the 805g “main mass” I had offered on my October 2017 list. I was able to arrange a purchase/ trade deal that made it fully mine so I could commit my evil saw work on it so I can now offer everybody more affordable pieces of this meteorite. This is not a super pretty meteorite but it does have an interesting look to it. It has the occasional larger chondrule, clast and sulfide inclusion in a mottled tan to dark brown matrix. This meteorite actually has two shock grades assigned to it: S3 and S4. This stone is composed of lighter colored and less shocked (S3) clasts in higher shocked (S4) matrix.
1) Slices:
a) 5.1 grams - 20mm x 19mm x 4mm - $35
b) 9.5 grams - 35mm x 20mm x 4mm - $65
c) 16.2 grams - 35mm x 33mm x 4mm - $110
d) 31.2 grams - 50mm x 40mm x 4mm - $200
e) 65.5 grams - 85mm x 55mm x 4mm - $400 – large 15mm “chondrule”


NWA (10805): Ordinary chondrite. (L4), S2, W1. Found before May 2016. Tkw = 657 grams.
These are pieces from a studied main mass (only one stone was recorded for this find) that had been oddly cut down its long side. Unfortunately, this made it so I could not get any true complete slices (all of the larger slices have at least some small amount of cut edge on one end) as the finders had cut it what I would have considered the wrong direction for further specimen prep work to remove the research work specimen. Anyway, this is a fairly nice meteorite, having a low weathering grade of W1. This shows some well-formed chondrules, quite a lot of fresh metal in a mottled orange brown to medium brown coarse-grained matrix.
1) Slices:
a) 8.9 grams - 30mm x 19mm x 4mm - $15
b) 17.1 grams - 35mm x 30mm x 4mm - $27
c) 33.8 grams - 67mm x 40mm x 4mm - $50
2) End pieces: note, I only have these two.
a) 62.4 grams - 52mm x 32mm x 25mm - $90
b) 154.4 grams - 55mm x 44mm x 35mm - sold – Main mass.



NWA (2965): Enstatite chondrite. (EL6/7), possibly (EL3). Found 205.
This is the stuff that some called a “fossil” meteorite as it was found embedded as part of ancient lake- bed deposits. This shows no visible chondrules to speak of so I personally believed the 6/7 classification (some have even called this an achondrite Aubrite). However, some researchers argue that the presence of K-bearing glass and a non re-crystallized matrix show that this is really a type 3! Regardless, enstatite chondrites are not only very rare but are interesting in that the bulk content of the Earth is closest matched by melting this type meteorite. I managed to set aside a few “larger” solid pieces (most pieces of this stuff were thumb sized or so) years ago so I could cut these nice slices from. A couple REALLY large pieces I turned into end pieces (the largest has a large zone of the light gray material) at a per gram price cheaper than replacement cost for this material these days. This is very weathered so it doesn’t show any metal but it does have in interesting light brown sandy texture that is quite different from other meteorites. I sold quite a large amount of this material when I put it out at the Denver show this year.
1) Slices:
a) 4.1 grams - 30mm x 15mm x 4mm - $15
b) 8.0 grams - 30mm x 24mm x 4mm - $29
c) 16.2 grams - 52mm x 32mm x 4mm - $56
d) 25.6 grams - 53mm x 53mm x 4mm - $90
e) 39.1 grams - 75mm x 47mm x 4mm - $135
f) 58.9 grams - 100mm x 65mm x 4mm - $200
2) End pieces/ cut fragments:
a) 2490 grams - 130mm x 120mm x 95mm - $1300
b) 5690 grams - 230mm x 180mm x 100mm - $2800


AGUAS ZARCAS, Costa Rica: Carbonaceous chondrite (CM2). Fell April 23, 2019. Tkw = 27kg.
I know quite a few of you saw an offering of this when I first got my hands on pieces back in mid August. However, this is an important new meteorite and many of you would not have gotten a chance to get a piece (I have many customers that only get this mailed list). I do plan to go to the area in Late November and hope to pick up some bargains from people wanting $ for Christmas rather than a rock on the shelf. Right now (as I type this list) folks that have material in the field seem to be still stuck at $65/g (larger uglier fragments that have seen a lot of rain before they were recovered) and $90/g (better, fresher individuals) so I am not sure if my “Christmas money” idea will work out. These slices, to be honest, are from a piece that saw some rain, but not much. I paid extra to get this wire-sawed to avoid adding any more water, causing any further damage as well. I do have a few small (mostly under 1g) fragments with crust (a bit cheaper per gram as well), so ask if that is what you might prefer.
1) Slices:
a) .28 grams - 10mm x 8mm x 1.5mm - $34
b) .54 grams - 13mm x 12mm x 1.5mm - $65
c) 1.0 grams - 20mm x 17mm x 1.5mm - $120
d) 2.0 grams - 28mm x 20mm x 1.5mm - $225
e) 2.7 grams - 37mm x 19mm x 1.5mm - $300
2) Larger fragments/ individuals:
a) 12.8 gram crusted fragment – 30mm x 18mm x 17mm - $1250.00 – about 40% crusted
b) 24.0 gram individual – 30mm x 28mm x 20mm - $2400.00 – about 85% crust, partly oriented.
c) 53.4 gram individual – 45mm x 32mm x 25mm - $5300.00 – about 95% crust, partly oriented.


NWA (12636): HED achondrite (diogenite). Found 2018. Tkw = 776 grams.
This was a solid diogenite fragment that I got during the 2018 Tucson Show. It sat around for quite awhile before I did anything with it. Upon cutting I found it had a nice, classic texture – larger angular to rounded crystals (generally light tan to somewhat greenish in color) in a fine (bright, nearly yellow) matrix. There also appears to be a fair amount of chromite (small black angular inclusions) in most of these pieces. The research work showed this to be a typical (Vesta origin) monomict (one rock type) breccia. Nice stuff, and a great example of a “classic” diogenite (something I have NOT had in a surprisingly long time)
1) Slices:
a) 2.8 grams - 20mm x 12mm x 4mm - $30
b) 5.4 grams - 28mm x 15mm x 4mm - $58
c) 10.0 grams - 40mm x 25mm x 4mm - $105
d) 18.0 grams - 50mm x 35mm x 4mm - $180
e) 33.0 grams - 65mm x 50mm x 4mm - $315
2) End pieces:
a) 54.6 grams - 70mm x 25mm x 20mm - $500
b) 114.8 grams - 60mm x 47mm x 20mm - sold


METEOR CRATER POST CARD:
These are vintage (mostly unused) post cards. They have a picture of the entire crater that appears to be a (somewhat overdone) hand-painted/ colored black and white photo of the crater as seen from the air to the east. The bulk of these have a trademark of what looks to be “Fred Harvey Hotels-Shops, Restaurants”. A photo number of H-3971 is on the front under the picture along with “Meteorite Crater Near Winslow, Arizona”. I don’t know how old these are but I do have a couple that were used that seem to indicate that these are from the mid to late 1940’s. Each of these is in a protective slip and the price on these includes the shipping. No, I won’t be writing your address on it and dropping it the mail. I’ll send them out in a regular letter envelope. I do have two of the same post card (one has an old crease though) that appears to be the same but with less over-coloration of the photo and has “Fred Harvey, Trade Mark” and none of the other “Hotels, restaurants” and such. I suspect these are later (and, at least from what I can tell, quite a bit rarer) - $5 for the creased (the uncreased is sold).
Old mid to late 1940’s post card of Meteor Crater - $5 including shipping, $4 each for extras.

Please note:
Shipping: For small US orders $4 is OK for now. Larger orders are now $14 (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 $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. How ever, for overseas orders, it probably is best to go ahead and use my brmeteorites@yahoo.com e-mail.