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.
