BLAINE REED METEORITES- LIST #290 -bigger things from Denver 15OCT2026

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

LIST 290 - October 15, 2026

Dear Collectors,
Here is an offering of the larger items I had for (consignments) or brought home (bought at the show) from Denver last month. These are all one of kind items and I don’t have easy replacements for any of these (though I do have other Canyon Diablos – wire brushed and mostly smaller and I do have other pallasite frames).



CANYON DIABLO, Arizona: Coarse octahedrite (IAB). Found 1891.
Actually, this is a piece I have owned for years. I only got it back right before the Denver show. I had it out in Denver but it was in something of a hidden spot (or it likely would have sold at the show). Now that I am in a convention center/ ballroom space, I don’t have walls to hang things on or lean things against. I ended up making something of my own to make a quasi-wall. Actually, I made it from 3 shelf units I bought at Hobby Lobby and modified somewhat (added a back board so things could not simply fall out the back). I anchored these to a table with C-clamps. This gave me shelves to put things on (framed pieces, rikers, slices…) as well as (the center unit) cubby-holes to put things in. this piece was in one of the bottom cubbyholes where it was somewhat hidden by the display case in front of the shelf units. This is a wonderful completely natural piece as found. It has nice thumb-printing and is not scaly or covered in caliche like many natural pieces of this meteorite are. It was the display/ education piece at the local metal detector shop for years. It was used to show people (who endlessly brought it magnetite and hematite thinking it was meteorite) that iron meteorites as found in nature are rusty orange/brown NOT shiny gray/black. The owner has decided that he is aiming for retirement and has been giving me back much of the material I had on sale and display there. For now, he has kept a small display (maybe ¼ of the space of what was being used for the meteorites) that does not have room for things that are just display (I was not trying to sell this one – I wanted to keep it there for this education purpose). So, here is a nice, natural piece that has lost it place/purpose where I had it. I have a similar piece for my own display/ education purposes and I don’t really need two, so this one is now available.
433.8 gram natural individual – 75mm x 60mm x 25mm - $800

DRONINIO, Russia: Ni-poor ataxite (ungrouped). Found July 2000.
This is a wonderful complete slice that I did get in Denver. It is not etched, just highly polished on one side (the back side still shows the saw marks. The guy that cut this told me he had close to 30 hours in cutting and polishing this as it is already and didn’t see the need to spend another 12 or 15 polishing out the back side). I knew that this meteorite had troilite blebs all through it (it is its signature feature) but I have not seen ones like the ones in this slice. I could spend a lot of time just looking at these inclusions. There are all kinds of interesting ones. Some are basically a ring – a metal center with a ring of sulfide around it. Some are horseshoe shaped. There is even one that looks like a flower. It is basically round (about 7mm diameter) but has metal blebs inside that look a lot like flower petals. A nice museum quality slice of a rare meteorite type.
981.9 gram complete slice – 245mm x 115mm x 75mm - $1700

LIBYAN DESERT GLASS:
I believed this to be just a nice large, really clear (particularly for its size) Libyan Glass specimen. Looking at it out in full sunlight (it is really nice there) I noticed something. It had a tunnel of dirt/ sand grains that looked like it went all the way through it. As in all the way through the center of it, not just a corner or edge. Yep, a little work with a copper wire and the dirt came out and showed that there is indeed a tunnel all the way through this piece. Right now, I have a wire (supposed to be red but looks more pink – a leftover from some electrical work I did around here) that goes through the hole to show it is there, complete and not tiny. This piece has another interesting feature. It is loaded with little (1 or 2mm sized) white balls. I have been told (years ago) that these are made up of the high temp/ high shock quartz mineral called cristobalite. There is a small chipped area on the bottom of this piece that acts as a window allowing you to see clearly into it (the rest of it is the usual sculpted/ textured wind eroded surfaces found on this material naturally). There are a number of these cristobalite balls right there for easy viewing.
787 gram with hole completely through it – 120mm x 90mm x 70mm - $1100



NWA (unstudied): HED achondrite (Eucrite).
This is a stone that I got from Tim Stephan, Fredric’s brother, at the show. I almost sold it there too (it was in a visible spot on/in my “cubbyhole” shelf). Fredric had planned to do the research work and publish this but never got it done. We (Tim and I) have no idea where/ who he got it from, just that it is a really nice display specimen (I know it is HED because I ran the XRF on it). This has a nice large cut and polished face (80mm x 70mm) that has a very Moon-rock look to it (clasts that are black to bright white in color in a dark gray matrix). I suspect that Fredric got the specimen with this face already cut on it. There is another cut spot (on the bottom. 40mm x 30mm) that clearly was made with a smaller saw. This was likely where Fredric removed a specimen for the research work (we have not found that). This is really nice HED moon rock lookalike at a great price.
1666.6 gram individual with cut face – 120mm x 90mm x 80mm - $2500

NWA (unstudied): Achondrite (Ureilite).
This is another specimen that I got from Tim that belonged to Fredric. Like the specimen above, this one has two cut faces. Like the piece above, the larger one (70mm x 30mm) is polished and the smaller one (26mm x 15mm) on the back is not. I didn’t run this one on the XRF as it is pretty obvious that this IS a Ureilte. I see that from the “polished” face being not completely polished (there are some saw marks still visible) and the smaller cut face shows the saw that was used had considerable difficulties making even that cut. These things tell me that this is a tougher than nails stone. It is NOT one of the soft uereilites (I have only ever run into two of those). Though this stone is a great shape for cutting (it would produce lots of nice complete slices) I would recommend against doing that. Not sure if this is one of the super hard Ureilites (with diamonds) or merely one of the really hard ones (with silicon carbides). Regardless, it is clear that this would likely eat up LOTS of saw blades and sandpaper in preparing it. The other reason to not cut this is that this has a huge area of actual primary fusion crust! I have only seen actual fusion crust on a few ureilites (they rarely have it for some reason) and even then it is usually a thin almost more imagination than anything secondary crust. This is a wonderful specimen as it is and, if I were going to keep it, would leave it alone.
1100.4 gram stone with crust and cut face – 110mm x 90mm x 50mm - $3500







SEYMCHAN, Russia: Stony-iron (Pallasite). Found 1967.
I am starting to see that I am going to have serious troubles getting pieces like this in the future. I had trouble getting it in Denver (where I usually get my Seymchan pallasite slices). Part of it is that they people I like to deal with were always closed when I was not stuck in my “new ballroom space” but also, they did not have many pieces to choose from. In addition to that, the prices on this material looks to be going up rapidly. I did get some pieces near (but not at) prices I was used to, but not much. The other sources (one was right outside the doors to the convention center sub-room I was in) had nice material BUT the prices blew me away. This particular slice I got, partly because it was the only largish (more than 50 or 60 grams) piece with nice, clear olivines I could even remotely afford. It has less olivine than many pallasites (but shows some great widmanstatten structure because of that) but those crystals are some of the clearest I have ever seen in Seymchan. Pretty much all of the olivines pass light, most amazingly so. This is a full slice that I have put in one of my custom made frames (those proved to be super popular at the show – the reason I needed to hunt down material to make more with). I did have to pay more than I am used to too get this piece BUT A) it is a really good piece and B) all the other sources with similar material were at $20/g my cost (!!!). Those people were at $25/g for pieces with more “normal” pallasite olivine amounts (clear crystals or not). I suspect that this is telling me that this might be one of the last really nice Seymchan slices I can afford to frame, unfortunately.
325.2 gram complete slice in frame – 170mm x 150mm x 2mm - $5100




TOLUCA, Mexico: Medium octahedrite (IAB). Found 1776.
Along with the US, this is having its 250th anniversary. This is a really nice piece for Toluca. It is likely an earlier surface find. It has nice solid hard surfaces, not the usually rather ratty/ scaly surfaces I have seen on so many Tolucas. This was sent home with me to figure out what it was. It came to a mineral dealer from someone selling a mineral collection. No one knew what this thing was (other than it was a meteorite). My initial thought was Canyon Diablo, but it didn’t look quite right for that. Looking at it a bit more, Toluca came to mind. These used to be commonly available but it has been so long (like 30or 40 years) that Toluca did not pop up as a possibility at first. I did come to that conclusion after a bit though. However, people were not happy with just a guess. This was sent home with me to polish a spot on an end and etch it. Yep, did that, and the etch worked (surprising for me – I generally suck at etching for some reason). So, here is a really nice piece of a famous meteorite that is not so commonly seen anymore.
4783.5 gram individual – 185mm x 115mm x 75mm - $3600

OVERSEAS/ Out of US Orders:
This year has brought about a number of changes (in addition to large price increases) for things leaving the US. One thing I have run into is that I am being forced to pay Duties and Taxes on some/ many orders I am sending out. So far, I have NOT been able to find anywhere where I can learn which orders I will have to pre-pay taxes on and which ones I will not. To be honest, I have not had to send very many out of US orders lately so I have a very limited understanding of this new problem. I did have to pre-pay these things on two orders going to Germany (losing any and all profits on those sales as a result). I just sent out a large, fairly valuable package to Switzerland and did NOT have to pre-pay (thankfully, I suspect it would have been close over $600 if I did). I also did not have to pre-pay on a small order I sent to Canada. Right now, I have no way of knowing IF I am going to have to do this and/ or how much it will cost. Despite the system demanding the value, the type items and more when I do a “calculate a price” on the PO website ahead of time I got no information on this. When I go to actually make the shipping label, I get NO info on the Duties and taxes until AFTER I have entered my credit card info to pay for what I thought would be JUST the shipping. The last package to Germany, the shipping part was $21.80. No big deal. However, after “agreeing” to the cost and entering my credit card info to pay for it, I got a notice of pre-payment of Duties and Taxes was required. That cost me $85. No way around it. Pay those or loose the $21.80shipping cost (it looks like the system has already charged me that before I find out about the duties and taxes thing) as well as the entire sale (who wants to pay for an order that cannot be shipped?). Of course, once I got tagged for those fees, I have not been able to recover them from the customers (they are somewhat correct in saying it was I who misquoted the actual shipping costs so it is my problem if I lose money on it).

Anyway, I cannot go on and keep losing money sending things overseas like this. I will try to see if I can find some way to get those tax numbers ahead of time (before I have made the shipping label, given my CC info and “agreed to pay all expenses”) so I can give an actual accurate quote ahead of time. IF I am not able to do that, then I will likely have to say that those extra expenses may be roughly 25% of the overall package value (this seems to be about the amount that I have seen on the few overseas things I have sent this year). As such, a $200 may end up having around $50 of duties and taxes on it. I think what I will need to do is NOT run a charge on a customer’s card until after I have created the shipping label and found out exactly what those taxes will be (IF there are any on their package that is). Then I can put that amount on the actual receipt in the package with the specimens (clearly labeled as duties and taxes already paid). This will likely be helpful for the customer as well as it will help show that those things have already been paid. Disturbingly, nowhere on the shipping papers that are produced for these orders can I find ANYWHERE that clearly says this and how much those expenses were and that they have been already paid! My “receipt” for the shipping shows ONLY the actual package shipping costs. On the two going to Germany (where I was charged these fees) nowhere in/ on the post office system could I get something that clearly stated the duties/ taxes paid – ONLY the raw shipping costs (I could only find a small note that $106.80 had been charged to my card by the system for that last package). Having it on the receipt AND a matching credit card charge receipt would certainly help in showing that the package has already been paid and should go to the customer without any further charges.

NO, I WILL NOT LIE ABOUT THE VALUE OF THE PACKAGE TO GET AROUND THIS!!
Yes, at one time that kind of thing would work (but was still highly illegal and could land someone in jail for a considerable amount of time. I am not interested in going to jail for years so someone can save a few dollars on taxes). Not anymore. Customs now regularly uses AI. They can simply take a picture of an item and know what it is and what it is worth. I had someone overseas wanting me to claim a $2500 pallasite slice in a custom frame was worth less than $500. No dice I told them, AI will expose that lie in a heartbeat. To prove my point, I showed them (told them anyway) how I had simply taken a picture of the slice in Google Lens and the associated AI not only figured out that it was a pallasite but WHICH ONE and how much it really sells for! What has been happening lately is customs simply enters my name, enters the things listed on the customs declaration and BOOM, they have my actual offering - showing what I really charged for the item(s) - in front of them in seconds. They see a declared value of $15on on item that is on that offering priced at $350 – game over. Those things WILL be confiscated and someone (me) is going to have a heap of legal troubles.

Shipping:
US Shipping:
Rates continue to change. When shipping things from my last offering, I have seen rates increase yet again. I’ll hold to $8 for my usual jewelry box in a padded envelope (even though it now looks like it is closer to $8.50 minimum for those now). Small Priority flat-rate boxes are now $13 (IF I take the time to do the label on line- somewhat of a lesson in frustration and many times does not work at all, otherwise it is $15). Medium flat-rate boxes are $22 ($26 if I can’t get the label made online). One thing I have noticed though is that does NOT seem to be the huge penalty there once was for using your own box. Lately, I have been able to send my own boxes quite a bit cheaper than if I used an appropriate sized flat-rate box. Of course, this is when sending “Ground Advantage”. I can use my own boxes for Priority shipping (and do when I have something to big for a small flat-rate but using a medium would require a stupid amount of packing material). Those costs don’t seem out of line anymore like they once were.

Overseas/ out of US:
The packages I have sent (and almost sent before duties and tax issues – see not at top of this offering – killed the sale) seem to indicate that my usual couple ounce jewelry box in a padded envelope is around $25. Priority small flat-rate is $56 and a medium is $93. However, you need to keep in mind that duties and taxes are likely to be around 25% of the package value if you are in one of the places that requires these to be repaid. This is added to the shipping when I go to make the label and, so far, I have NOT found a work-around. I have not even found where I can find what those will be until AFTER I have created (and paid for?) the actual shipping label. Regardless, I will NOT charge anyone more than the actual amount after I know what it will be.

BLAINE REED METEORITES= LIST 285 04MAY2026

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

LIST 285 - May 4, 2026

Dear Collectors
Here is my second “consigned things brought home from Tucson” list. Like the last one, these are all consigned items that (if not sold) be going back to the owner. This will not be done for at least a couple weeks, so do try and let me know if something here interests you, even if you will not be able to take/pay for it until later (it would be much more difficult for me to try and get a specimen back into my hands later.




GUADALUPE Y CALVO, Mexico: Hexahedrite (IIAB). Found 1971. Tkw = 58.67kg.
This is another piece of that meteorite that was used as a dog food bowl on a ranch in Mexico. They had large dogs that would drag off (and hide/lose) regular bowls. Of course, with the money they got from selling us this meteorite, they were able to come up with an alternate working solution (who knows? Maybe they are using a big hammered copper nugget these days). This piece came to Fredric through me some years ago (it has a copy of the old made on a physical typewrite info card I made when I first had this meteorite with it). This piece is most certainly one of the ones I sold for Jim Schwade some years ago. Somehow, I think Fredrick had something of a moisture issue in his house (even though it was in Tucson). Not sure if it was a hot tub, fish tank, or what but many of the iron meteorites I got from him show some rusting (see the NWA 11446 slices pictured in the last offering and the Seymchan below). For some reason, ALL of these things were completely uncoated. I know, some years ago, some people were saying “never coat a meteorite, that will just seal in moisture”. I call Bulldink on that. Dry the thing first and it won’t be a problem. I have done actual tests (uncoated, coated, waxed….) and found that coating a meteorite that has lots of iron in it a huge benefit. Of what I have gotten from Fredrick and or Timothy, this is, by far, the most oxidized. However, in this case, it has done something kind of amazing. The rust on this piece is thin (not the type that would promote further rusting risking the piece. More of a medium grade surface coating) but I decided to not clean this because of what this coating of oxidation has done. Somehow, this has brought out the Nuemann lines unlike ANY meteorite I have ever seen. I remember the cut and polished face that was on the meteorite when we bought it showed these really well. Unfortunately, that cut was oriented really awkward for further cutting so we cut it in a different direction. Unfortunately, that direction made the Nuemann lines barely visible no matter how much effort Marlin put into etching this stuff. Here, they are super strong and vibrant – the best I have ever seen. It would be really easy to polish off this oxide coating, if that is what someone really wants but no amount of fiddling with etching will bring this structure back to life after. I have spray coated this meteorite to keep it long term protected from further oxidation (but still, DON’T put it next to the shower, hot tub or fish tank PLEASE).
342.1 gram part slice – 120mm x 70mm x 5mm - $1400

NWA (8262): L-Melt breccia. Found 2013. Tkw = 1226grams.
Not all that long ago, this would have been a very expensive meteorite. I think the firsts of this type I saw were cat Mountain, AZ ($100 hundred +/gram I think) and Chico, New Mexico (a lot cheaper but you had to buy a pretty big piece to get both textures). This slice reminds me of a miniature Chico. About ¾ of the piece is highly shocked/ distorted chondritic material (that has a lot of vesicles in it – just like Chico) and the remaining ¼ is obvious flow melt material. Unlike Chico though, this is a nice hold in the palm of your hand complete slice. This piece is in a Riker type box (maybe not in the group photo though) that comes with a WWMeteorites.com label.
30.5 gram complete slice – 70mm x 45mm x 3mm - $95

NWA (17418). HED achondrite (Diogenite). Found 2024. Tkw = 4.88kg.
This is a nice end piece with a cool shape. This meteorite reminds me strongly of Dhofar (700). It has the same solid crystalline composition (looking kind of like a greenish Ureilite more than a Diogenite). Mixed in this are some dark (nearly black( inclusions (likely chromite). The back side is all clearly old exterior, no fresh breaks or modifications. There are a good number of black shiny areas that look like crust but I suspect that these are actually wind-polished chromites. This piece is in a Riker.
20.3 gram end piece – 55mm x 24mm x 10mm - $220

NWA (8022): Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia). Found 2013. Tkw = 1226 grams.
This is a specimen that required me running it on the XRF to be sure it was not something that accidentally mislabeled. Nope, this is indeed a moon rock. However, it has something of a different look to it than most. To be honest, this looks a LOT like many eucrites/ howardites I have seen. This even has a lot of small brown spots scattered all through it (which are likely oxidized iron meteorite bits that got mixed into this from impacts while sitting on the moon) – making it look even more like an HED. This is a nice end piece that has some obvious smooth greenish gray fusion crust on the back. This Stephan specimen is very well priced and I have thought of buying it myself to cut up and offer to collectors as it has a different look to it than Lunars I have sold in the past.
71.0 gram end piece – 50mm x 23mm x 30mm - $1800

SEYMCHAN, Russia: (Pallasite). Found 1967.
This is actually one of the all iron pieces. Given its thickness, I suspect that this is one of the earlier sold specimens. When this stuff cfirst came out, the Russians were doing the cutting as they wanted the “value added” by turning the stuff into slices (could get a lot higher $/g for something that isn’t a hundreds of kilos chunk). The problem was that they were cutting the pieces to something on an awkward thickness. They were, generally, seen as too thick by collectors but they were thin enough that there really wasn’t an easy/ safe way to split them into thinner slices (that was before wire saws. A wire saw can probably cut this piece into several thinner slices but it would cost a fairly shocking amount of money to get that done, unfortunately). This is really kind of a long bar with only one of its shorter edges being a natural surface. This piece has been etched on both sides and does show a good etch structure. This was another Stephan piece that was uncoated. Like the others, this does show some (very minor) surface discoloration from oxidation (limited to one side). This could be completely renewed by someone that actually knows how to etch (don’t look at me, I really suck at etching). Frankly, it is safe (now coated) staying the way it is. This comes with a Matt Stream “Streaming Meteorites” label. This is priced well below what the Russians would charge for a similar piece these days.
523.5 gram part slice – 140mm x 50mm x 9mm - $780.

Shipping:
PLEASE NOTE-

 USPS POSTAL RATES HAVE INCREASED BY ABOUT 8% ABOVE THE COSTS LISTED BELOW A CUSTOM QUOTE ON SHIPPING MAY BE REQUIRED.

US:
I have indeed found that even my smallest jewelry box in a padded envelope now costs a minimum of $8 to send now. I know that there is yet a further shipping rate increase in the works. I have heard that package shipping rates will be going up (or may have already) another 8% or so. I won’t work about this until I actually see/ experience it. So, for JUST now, basic shipping will be $8. For small priority flat-rate boxes $12 should be fine. For things that are not light or small and won’t even fit in a small Priority flat-rate box I’ll probably need to custom quote the shipping.

OVERSEAS:
It has been some time since I have sent anything out of the US. With all the hassles and paperwork these days, that us something of a blessing. At this point, anything going overseas, I will need to look up shipping costs. However, the last packages I sent out of the US were about $17 for my basic small/ cheap specimen in a padded envelope to Canada and around $25 going to Europe. For small priority flat-rate boxes I think it was around $30 to Canada and around $45 to Europe.

Blaine Reed Meteorites List #283 04JAN2026 - NEW OFFERINGS AND COMING TUCSON SHOW

Blaine Reed Meteorites
P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
brmeteorites@yahoo.com
LIST 283 - January 4, 2026

Dear Collectors
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

TUCSON SHOW INFO: At this point, I am planning on being gone from January 27th until around February 17th. However, I MAY try going to Tucson a bit earlier this year just to see what happens. I get people telling me they have been in Tucson for days and are going home before I even unload my car. Years when I have shown up early I hear “not buying anything until everyone else is set up and I see what they have”. Kind of interested to see what the situation is now. IF I do go early, it will likely only be a few days early (leaving around Jan 23rd perhaps). Regardless, 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 30th (as early as the 26th if I do decide to go early). I currently plan to stay through the bitter end which would be February 14th but may leave early if things look like they will be as slow that last week as they have been the past couple years. I will open the door most days at 10AM but will try to make it a bit earlier than that when possible. I will have the door open most evenings until around 9:30pm or so (or later if people are visiting/ still wandering about).

Notes on my “spring” list: I usually do an offering sometime in April/ May. Currently, it looks like I will skip this offering this year. I have a lot of travels (including out of the country) piled up the months after Tucson and I will not have time to gather, prep and list enough material (let alone being home to take, pack and ship orders). I may send out a note (with a few meteorites offered?) sometime mid- summer telling people about Denver in September (currently, I have no show space for this show).

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 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.


Henbury, Australia: Meteorite Shale/Oxide.
Here are pieces of oxide/shale from the famous Henbury craters discovered in 1931. There have been some arguments as to exactly how this forms. Most believe that it is just by a meteorite oxidizing over many years after reaching the ground and others are thinking it might be a form of “fusion crust”. In this case, the hot metal being exposed to the oxygen rich air blast from the fall or melted and splashed out of the forming crater(s) rapidly turns some into this material (I can personally think of some problems with this idea). Anyway, many of these pieces are kind of cool (and are all affordable) and the biggest is really quite a nice paperweight. One of the 100gram bags would be ideal for those that want to give friends and family a holdable sized piece of “meteorite material” and not spend a lot doing it (and doing this might spark an interest in meteorites and science in some of those people).
1) Meteorite Shale/ Oxide fragments as found:
a) 11.2 grams - 25mm x 20mm x 7mm - $7
b) 25.6 grams - 35mm x 20mm x 12mm - $15
c) 43.0 grams - 48mm x 35mm x 10mm - $25
d) 95.0 grams - 50mm x 30mm x 25mm - $50 – only one this size.
e) 211.9 grams - 107mm x 50mm x 25mm - $105 – only one this size.

2) 100gram+ bag of mixed pieces generally around 2cm to 4cm or so in size - $35



SILVERTON (TEXAS):, Ordinary chondrite (H4). Found 1938. Tkw = about 14kg.
This is a meteorite I got “out of the field” (bought from the finder) many, many years ago. It was 1986 or 1987 when I got it. I had hoped it would be a “new” meteorite. My maps of already known meteorites from the area showed it might not be. The closest likely possibility is that the 10kg piece I bought from the farmer who ploughed it up (in 1981 he believed) was another piece of Silverton - a meteorite that Nininger had reported as three pieces totaling close to 4kg being found in 1938 (so, clearly there was something of a strewn field in the area). I had trouble getting the comparison work done. The only place that had a known piece of one of the original Silverton stones was in Germany. Despite my giving them a slice and pre-made thin-section of my material, it still took some years to get my answer. When I did get the results it was that my “new” stone was indeed now the “main mass” of the Silverton (Texas) meteorite.
1) Part slices:
a) 7.2 grams - 20mm x 15mm x 7mm - $28
b) 14.2 grams - 34mm x 22mm x 7mm - $55
c) 28.9 grams - 40mm x 34mm x 7mm - $110
d) 63.6 grams - 50mm x 50mm x 7mm - $240
e) 164.5 grams - 90mm x 75mm x 7mm - $600 – has 6mm metal nodule.



NWA (12641),Carbonaceous chondrite (CK4). Found 2018. Tkw = 613grams.
This was a single stone recovery. The stone didn’t have any real fusion crust remaining so it was easy to see that it was something interesting right from the start. The interior shows dark gray chondrules (but not a lot of them) in a somewhat coarse-grained matrix (and this stone IS mostly “matrix”) that is mostly gray but has something of a greenish tint to it. This meteorite has quite a lot of Cr rich magnetite (but no fresh metal) in it (in both the chondrules and matrix). Some of this
magnetite has oxidized to orange/brown secondary iron hydroxides (there is not a lot of this though). Research work says that this also has “sparse, small fine-grained Calcium Aluminum Inclusions” (those things that formed first in the cloud that would become the solar system and often contain pre-solar system grains like diamonds a silicon carbides). I have looked at a few cut pieces of this (interestingly, the sides of these slices that have not been sanded show the structure MUCH clearer than the sides that were “polished”) and I have not seen anything that I would say is clearly a CAI (so they are obviously quite small).
1) Slices/ part slices:
a) 1.0 grams - 15mm x 10mm x 2mm - $12
b) 2.1 grams - 28mm x 14mm x 2mm - $25
c) 4.0 grams - 32mm x 28mm x 2mm - $45
d) 8.4 grams - 47mm x 28mm x 2mm - $90
e) 17.2 grams - 63mm x 54mm x 2mm - $170 – complete slice.



MILLBILLILLIE, Australia: HED achondrite (Eucrite). Fell October 1960. Tkw = around 150kg.
Here are some meteorites that, like the Irghizites below, I have had set aside for a loooong time. And I do mean long. These have been set aside for AT LEAST 35 years now! When Millbillille was readily available I made it a point to “stash” some nice small complete individuals. These are all really nice. They do have the usual orange dirt on most of them. I did try several ways in the long ago past to remove this (by both mechanical and chemical methods) but those all ended up looking bad, so I choose to just leave these as they are. These have nice shapes, only minor chips showing the bright white interior and lots of flow lines in the fusion crust. I’ve watched for years and years but have not really seen anything in the way of nice complete (small) eucrite individuals come out of the NWA areas. Complete little individual eucrites are a scarce thing, even including NWAs.
1) Complete individuals (mostly) as found:
a) 8.8 grams - 25mm x 15mm x 15mm - $170
b) 15.7 grams - 25mm x 20mm x 17mm - $300
c) 24.2 grams - 35mm x 25mm x 20mm - $450
d) 59.5 grams - 45mm x 30mm x 25mm - $1100









SEYMCHAN, Russia: Sotny-iron (pallasite). Found 1967.
Yeah, I know, I have offered a fair amount of this over the past years BUT I have not ever offered any in this form. No, not like slice, end piece, whole but in how it is displayed. These pieces are each really nice pallasite slices (the two largest have some larger areas of metal that have a great etch structure that really make these pieces a visual treat). It is HOW they are displayed that is different. These are in a metal picture frame (chrome) and are set between two pieces of glass (the front piece being an expensive non-glare “Museum glass”) so light can pass through to show the wonderful natural “stained glass window” look of these piece. I make these frames all myself. I custom cut the metal frame parts and make the custom cut (black) mats (these are hand cut with a jeweler’s saw to tightly fit the shape of the slice). A LOT of work but these do look pretty nice. I have been told that a good number of these I have made (also with non-pallasite meteorites) are hanging in some museums (including the Smithsonian I was told). I decided that I should not hold these only for shows but offer them to everyone even by mail.
1) Pallasite slices in custom fit metal frame.
a) 62.1 grams – 100mm x 65mm x 2mm – frame is 5”x 7” - $1100
b) 154.9 grams – 140mm x 115mm x 2mm – frame is 7” x 8” - $2350
c) 333.8 grams – 230mm x 120mm x 2mm – frame is 8” x 11” - $4700



IRGHIZITE, Russia: Zhamanshin Crater.
Here is another item I have had set aside for years and years. I can’t remember how long ago I last offered some of these on a list, but it has been a long time. The Zamanshin Crater is 14km (8.6miles) in diameter and is believed to have formed right around 900 thousand years ago. It is also believed to be the most recent impact of size great enough to have possibly created “nuclear winter” environmental effects (but not big enough to have caused mass extinction, thankfully). There are many different types of impact glasses found around this crater and Irghizites are the ones that have generally been looked at as tektites. These are all pieces I set aside as being particularly interesting. They have wild, ropy shapes (often many stretched glass strands piled up on top of each other) and all have natural holes (most have several). These are all standard to somewhat larger than average size and all are a feast for the eyes under magnification.
a) about .8g 10mm x 15mm x 6mm fancy individual - $20

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 almost $8 now! Lately, the cheapest I have been able to send such a thing (to closer addresses) has been $7.80 (and that is for “ground advantage”) . I think small flat-rate priority boxes are at least $11. Bigger things I’ll probably have to custom quote (though I don’t have any things on this offering that would require anything bigger than a small flat-rate box).

Overseas shipping, it does look like the “First Class” option still exists (thankfully, because most overseas small flat-rate costs are bumping up against $50 these days). I will, likely, need to custom quote even the “first class” jewelry box in a padded envelope none the less. Those used to be around $15 or $16. However, I seem to recall that such a package was quoted at closer to $35 going to France a couple months ago (that customer decided to go with the faster Priority).

Blaine Reed Meteorites for Sale- List 276 12JAN2025

Blaine Reed Meteorites for Sale- List 276  12JAN2025

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

LIST 276 - January 11, 2025

Dear Collectors

Happy New Year!

TUCSON SHOW INFO: I will be on the road from January 27th until around February 18th. 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 31st. I will likely stay through the bitter end (unless security issues become a problem like they did in the “second week” of the Covid year’s April show) which would be February 15th. 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.



ALETAI, China: Medium octahedrite (IIIE-anom). Found 1898. Tkw = around 74 tons.
Here is find that may end up making Gibeon look small. Several multi-ton pieces have been found (including the 1898 28 ton Armanty meteorite – now recognized to be a piece of this material- that was the 4th largest meteorite known until recently). The strewn field is already recognized to be 430km in length! Apparently, the incoming meteoroid hit the atmosphere at a very shallow angle and skipped along the top of it, dropping meteorites as it went. This is nice looking material. It has a wonderful, vibrant etch. Some pieces have graphite inclusions, sulfides and even chromite. I have a few pieces that even have crystals of pyroxene or olivine (this is a detail my XRF will not sort out) as well. These are listed below. In Denver, I saw some sources of this asking around $5/g (and quoted me $3.50/g wholesale) on similarly prepared material (for the usual non-silicated pieces. I had no idea that pieces with olivine or pyroxene crystals existed until I saw these in my batch).
1) Etched part slices. Etched on both sides and spry coated.
a) 4.9 grams - 16mm x 15mm x 2mm - $16
b) 9.5 grams - 28mm x 17mm x 2mm - $30
c) 18.3 grams - 36mm x 25mm x 2mm - $55
d) 27.2 grams - 45mm x 30mm x 2mm - $80
e) 47.7 grams - 70mm x 42mm x 2mm - $140 – only one this size.
f) 82.3 grams - 95mm x 33mm x 3mm - $225 – only one this size.
2) Etched slices with some olivine/pyroxene in them:
a) 5.9 grams - 27mm x 13mm x 2mm - $35
b) 10.8 grams - 40mm x 14mm x 2mm - $60 - not the piece in the photo.
c) 22.1 grams - 40mm x 32mm x 2mm - $125
d) 31.4 grams - 51mm x 31mm x 2mm - $175



GOLD BASIN, Arizona: Ordinary chondrite (L4). Found Nov. 2005. Tkw = 127kg.
As promised on an earlier list, I did cut some of the pieces I got from the retired metal detector guy that called me right before I left for Tucson last January. This is a VERY old fall. Research suggests that this fell around 20,000 to 25,000 years ago. As such, this represents the oldest known strewn field known outside of Antarctica. Regardless, most of these are quite nice inside. They show still plenty of fresh metal, lots of chondrules in a pleasant mottled light tan and gray(almost blue, actually) matrix. I have a fair number of the smaller pieces but don’t have a lot of the “larger” ones (I have only ONE of the 131g size pieces) as not many “large” (several hundred grams and bigger) pieces of this were found.
1) End pieces:
a) 9.5 grams - 24mm x 22mm x 8mm - $15
b) 18.2 grams - 31mm x 23mm x 10mm - $27
c) 30.9 grams - 34mm x 27mm x 16mm - $45
d) 61.3 grams - 45mm x 35mm x 20mm - $85
e) 131.0 grams - 68mm x 59mm x 18mm - $170




SEYMCHAN, Russia: Stony-iron meteorite (Pallasite). Found 1967.
Well, I have no idea the total known weight of this meteorite, but it is a fairly large amount. I do know that there does not look to be any more of this coming out. Whoever has it, has it. I have talked with the folks that recovered this material and they told me “no more looking”. The expeditions to the recovery area are very difficult and expensive. After spending a couple $million
and finding only 100kg or so on the last two attempts it is NOT hard to see why they say “no more”. I got a good deal on these particular specimens and I suspect that these will be the last sub $10/g Seymchan Pallasite I will be able to offer. These pieces ARE all pallasite. However, the crystals in these tend to be larger, darker and in large, dense masses (very little metal in the areas where the olivine resides). The metal areas, likewise, seem to be concentrated. The plus of that (aside from the overall aesthetics) is that the metal areas do (for the most part, there are some exceptions) show nice etch structure (pallasites, in general, do not). I have had similar type pieces in the past and they do sell well. I’ll have these in Tucson but will probably have them priced a little higher than here. The “replacement” prices I am being offered on Seymchan pallasite of any type are getting quite high (my “better quality” pieces that I like to put in custom frames were now $18/g my cost in Denver this past September!).
1) Part slices. Iron areas etched both sides:
a) 10.8 grams - 22mm x 22mm x 4mm - $85
b) 17.0 grams - 37mm x 25mm x 4mm - $130
c) 27.0 grams - 37mm x 34mm x 5mm - $200
d) 37.9 grams - 60mm x 32mm x 4mm - $275
e) 104.7 grams - 70mm x 70mm x 4mm - $735 – only one this size.




NWA (14682): HED achondrite. (Eucrite, unbrecciated). Found before 2020. Tkw = 14kg.
Hated to break up the big slice I had of this good looking material. IF this material did not have some caliche along some edges and if the crust, where present, was less wind-polished, it would be VERY easy to mistake this meteorite as a piece of Millbillillie. Millbillillie was the first eucrite we collectors (back in the mid 1980’s) ever got to see and buy (and it was $20/g back then when it first came out!). This has exactly the equigranular light/ dark salt/ pepper texture that most all Millbillillie showed (and pieces of this that don’t have a natural edge could easily pass as Millbillillie – so keep these separate from any Millbillillie slices you might have). There were a few brecciated pieces of Millbillillie, but not many. We collectors got really excited by these pieces (and they did command a premium). Now, with NWA material, it is easy to see that the unbrecciated texture is far, far rarer. Personally, I really like this texture in a eucrite.
1) Part slices:
a) 5.2 grams - 29mm x 20mm x 3mm - $40
b) 10.3 grams - 45mm x 25mm x 3mm - $77
c) 20.5 grams - 65mm x 38mm x 3mm - $145
d) 42.1 grams - 75mm x 70mm x 3mm - $270
e) 89.6 grams - 130mm x 85mm x 3mm - $525




ATACAMAITE, Chile: Impact crater glass.
These are not actual tektites (though they were thought to be right after they were found) but more “processed” than most crater glasses (like Darwin Glass, Irghizites…). I have seen them referred to as “Tektoids”, close to tektite but just not quite. We do know that these ARE associated with a meteorite impact. These things have a high concentration of the impacting body mixed in them. I have seen listed ranges as from around 5% to 15% of their mass being from the impactor. From this large amount of impactor material we can see some pretty clear info on the ratios of Fe to Ni to Co. These ratios suggest that it was the impact of a type IIAB iron that formed these. Age dating suggests that they formed close to 8my ago. Even though these have been found over a large area (roughly 650sq km area) no evidence of a source crater has been found (and may have been destroyed/ buried by later volcanic action). These are typical rounded shape specimens. They are all a little larger than the typical .5g average for those that have been found so far.
Natural individuals as found:
a) .6+ grams – around 10mm x 7mm x 5mm in size - $10.00 each
b) 1.1+ grams – around 12mm x 11mm x 5mm in size - $13.00 each
c) 1.4+ grams – around 15mm x 10mm x 6mm in size - $15.00 each.

Shipping:
US Shipping: It does seem that I can, generally, send small orders (jewelry box in a padded envelope kind) for around $5 still. This is by what they are now calling “Ground Advantage”. Though it is claimed to be going by trucks (and supposedly a couple days longer) I have found that things are getting to where they need to be pretty much the same time as the old “first class” used to. For things people prefer to send “Priority”, the costs are $10 for fairly small things (whatever can fit in a small flat-rate box) and around $18 for large things (things that need a medium flat-rate box).

For overseas shipping, it does look like the “First Class” option still exists (thankfully, because most overseas small flat-rate costs are bumping up against $50 these days). I will, likely, need to custom quote even the “first class” jewelry box in a padded envelope none the less. Those used to be around $15 or $16. However, I seem to recall that such a package was quoted at closer to $35 going to France a couple months ago (that customer decided to go with the faster Priority).

Blaine Reed Meteorites- LIST 265- 24AUG2023

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

LIST 265 - August 24, 2023

Dear Collectors

Here is a modest offering of some things that I have had here for some time but have not had a lot of time to catalog/ sort out. This will be my only offering until sometime after the Denver show (coming waaaayy to soon) – notes on that below).

Denver Show: I will be at my normal spot – Crowne Plaza (15500 E. 40th Ave – I-70 and Chambers Rd) in the “Frisco” meeting room (on the WEST side of the actual Convention center building – near the actual Hotel building). I will (or should) be open from Friday morning the 8th until Saturday afternoon (the 16th). I am scheduled to be open at 10am but will try to be open a bit earlier than that most days. My official closing time is 6pm but I do hang around and keep the door open however late (within reason) people are visiting (PLEASE NOTE, if you are wanting to visit “after hours” you will likely have to got through the hotel lobby doors as they often turn off and lock the doors that are right next to my show space). I will be “on the road” for this trip from around the 5th until the 18th. I’ll be VERY swamped once I get back home as it looks like I may have to unload and then turn right around an head back over the mountains to Wichita, Kansas (the guy I get my watch repair parts from is looking to retire and is getting pretty insistent that I go out to their NAWCC watch/ clock convention (starting on the 20th!!!) to buy whatever parts I think I might need or risk, in the future, going without). Basically, this whole next month is going to be a big, difficult mess for me.



ABADLA (002), Algeria: Carbonaceous chondrite (CM2). Found 2021, Tkw = 800 grams.
Here is about the only “affordable” CM2 that I am aware of. I have only a few crumbs of Murchison, sold all of my Aguas Zarcas. I’d love to sit on these pieces and wait to see what the asteroid return missions (one back already, one back soon) shows what those asteroids are made of. IF it is basically this kind of stuff, expect a pretty good run on all things CM2 (or CI1??). These are all the “usual” small fragments/ individuals as found.
1) Natural fragment:
a) .54 grams – 11mm x 7mm x 5mm - $35
b) .84 grams – 12mm x 9mm x 7mm - $50
c) 1.07 grams – 14mm x 8mm x 6mm - $65
d) 1.20 grams – 15mm x 10mm x 6mm - $70

ADMIRE, Kansas: Stony-iron (Pallasite).
I don’t remember exactly where I got this, just know it has been quite a long time now. This looks to be a “cleaned” (tumble polished?) individual of this meteorite. I didn’t know that many small individuals were actually found. This is actually quite pretty (I just don’t need it collecting dust at the back of a shelf here any more as it has for the last decade or so). It has obvious large somewhat gemmy olivine crystals in a blue-gray looking (on the exterior anyway) metal matrix. A nice piece that I wish I had bought a bunch of IF it was available affordably back when I got it. I have not had trouble with this rusting BUT I would recommend keeping it in a sealed desiccant container if you live in a humid area.
24.7 gram cleaned individual – 40mm x 28mm x 17mm - $150

DAR AL GANI (400), Lunar meteorite (anorthositic breccia). Found 1998,Ttkw = 1425 grams.
Boy oh boy do I remember when this discovery was reported. I think it happened right AFTER I paid $87k for a piece of the DaG (262) that was about the size of a nickel (and not much thicker). I think it might have been right before I got that piece in my hands and prepared it for selling. Nervous time indeed (were many kilos about to found, flooding the market making my little 262 nickel worth a fraction of what I paid?????). Anyway, the DaG 400 did come out but there was never a lot of it available. This piece IS the piece I picked up for myself at the time (much larger surface area than the small DaG 262 piece I kept for myself (and still have). Not super exciting these days, given the volume of Lunars available now but still a historic and interesting little piece.
.243gram slice – 20mm x 7mm x 1mm - $250

NAGJIR (001), Western Sahara. Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3). Found 2012, Tkw 4.8kg.
Here are a few slices of a nice, really classic looking CV3. These are this, show lots of chondrules and even a few of the CAI inclusions fluoresce a bit (pink/ purple).
1) Slices:
a) 7.5 grams – 48mm x 40mm x 1.5mm - $110
b) 12.2 grams – 90mm x 38mm x 1.5mm - $170
c) 15.9 grams – 110mm x 45mm x 1.5mm - $200




NWA (10401): Lunar meteorite (anorthositic troctolite). Found 2015. Tkw 354 grams.
This is kind of different from other lunars I have seen. It kind of looks like a plae green/ tan version of an Aubrite. It has distinct shock veins, many of which are large/ wide enough to have gas bubbles. I remember when this first came out. Being “something new and different” it was NOT particularly cheap (and me, being a cheap ------- ahh skate, I didn’t pick any up at the time). A bit (but only a little) more expensive than some of the other Lunars available BUT definitely interesting and worth the little extra (I’ll be keeping a piece myself). I can break a piece up into smaller pieces if anyone out there wants a smaller piece of this. I just didn’t want to start breaking apart these rather pretty pieces until I had a distinct need to.
1) Slices:
a) 4.3 grams – 30mm x 23mm x 2.5mm - $525
b) 7.3 grams – 35mm x 30mm x 2.5mm - $900 - complete slice
c) 11.3 grams – 47mm x 28mm x 3mm - $1200

SEYMCHAN, Russia: Stony-iron (Pallasite).
Now (unlike the similar Admire above) I do remember where I got this (if not exactly when). I got this as a trade in from a local Tucson collector towards something a bit bigger/ better I had that he wanted (he shows up each year with a small bag of “trade stuff”. He never buys, just trades). This, like the above Admire, does not look like a fragment of a much larger mass (though this one might be ½ of a slightly larger natural piece). Like the Admire above, I am not aware of many small seymchan pieces having been found. This shows a fair amount of visible olivine in the (in this case, mostly brown) metal matrix. This does have some fracturing. I don’t think that this is from it rusting after recovery as much as it is probably freeze-thaw fracturing. These things are found in the far north in an ancient glacial moraine. Being near the surface (where such a small piece would be findable with metal detector equipment) in such an environment would make it highly likely to suffer this fate.
60.7 gram natural fragment – 50mm x 25mm x 20mm - $280

TIGLIT, Morocco: Enstatite achondrite (Aubrite). Fell Dec 9, 2021. Tkw 2.22kg.
I remember the big hoopla when this fell. I had a lot of people telling me to “buy it now” (right after it fell). Well, the price was really high at that point (these days, even a common chondrite fall is many $hundreds/ gram until it is seen if there will be enough to satisfy the “will loose sleep if I don’t own a piece of the new one – will pay (almost” any price to get it” collectors. This one had more going for it. It had (has) a classic Lunar breccia look to it. That is what it was believed to be initially. As such, I seem to recall its price was around $1000/g. IF I were in the area (and had my XRF, I could have sorted this out in about a minute. I would have known it was NOT the world’s first Lunar witnessed fall but a (still quite interesting” Aubrite fall. These are all natural fragments as found. DON’T mix them in with any of your lunar meteorites or you’ll need my help sorting them back out.
1) Natural fragments as found: $175/g
Sizes available: .31g, .75g, 1.33g, 1.69g

Shipping:
Once again, the post office had turned everything upside down as far as shipping costs go (changes were made back in early July). I still can ship small US orders for around $5 BUT that is by way of something they are now calling "Ground Advantage". They have COMPLETELY eliminated "First Class" (which used to be "air-mail"). I have used this a number of times in the last month or so and it does not seem like it is taking all that much longer to get where it needs to be. I am a bit concerned though that being now "Ground" shipping that I may start to see more damaged and lost packages as these will now be mixed in with ALL the large, heavy things that are still going by the old "Parcel post". The problem here is that now, thanks to these changes, the cheapest I can send anything by air is in a small or medium Priority flat-rate box (using my own boxes for anything is drastically more expensive I have found. It seems the Post Office is doing everything they can to "standardize" shipping containers and is forcing us into flat-rate boxes only). So, sending things by air will be a minimum of $10 ($17 for larger things).

As for "Overseas" (any out of US orders) I am not quite certain yet how this effects things, I just know it will. As such, I will have to custom quote shipping on any out of US orders. I suspect though that this will force me to use Priority for these sales with "First Class" no longer existing and no possible "Ground" option available. I suspect I'll be forced into the flat-rate boxes here as well (and those START at nearly $50 for a small!!).

Blaine Reed Meteorites For Sale - List 239

Blaine Reed

P.O. Box 1141
Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
October 2, 2020

LIST 239

Dear Collectors,
Here is the e-mail version of my just mailed “after Denver” list. Yep, we did manage to have a show. It was shorter than normal (by about half) and we had a fairly light amount of foot traffic. None the less, I still managed to sell a lot more than I expected. Assuming no one ends up getting sick from doing the show, it was a solid win in my books. Now I just have to worry about Tucson. This is NOT a small worry. The hotel and show was taken over by a new owner just as we left this year’s show. He was scheduled to do a major re-model (I never like hearing that. I barely fit in the room the way things currently are. ¼” change in the length of the TV/ dresser cabinet means my current tables and layout no longer fit). Given this and the fact that the hotel was likely shut down right after we left, I would not be surprised to find the place closed in bankruptcy upon arrival next year. Also there is the issue of “social distancing”. I was able to do this given the much larger space I have in Denver (and by changing the table layout) but there is no chance of pulling something similar off in a small motel room (so will CDC guidelines prevent us from having the show in the normal fashion anyway). I’ll try to keep folks posted on this as I learn more.

SEYMCHAN, Russia: (Pallasite). Found 1967.
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SEYMCHAN, Russia: (Pallasite). Found 1967.
These are all actually slices of the much more common iron portion of this meteorite. I got these to cut down into smaller squares to satisfy the needs for some educational science kits I needed to pull together for an institute. Thankfully, I got lucky and was able to trade a collector for the smaller etched squares of this meteorite that I needed (this material has gotten quite hard to get and expensive to buy recently. Apparently, no more new pieces are being found). The two smaller pieces here are really, really cool almost complete slices (each has a 50mm cut edge that is not terribly noticeable). These were cut from a piece that had a large elongate natural hole in the center (likely from a Screibersite or Cohenite burning or weathering out). The largest piece is a complete slice. This has the earlier, deeper style etch on it (the etch on the holed pieces is lighter). This piece is somewhat warped (the saw obviously had some trouble getting through this piece) but has been polished and etched properly so this is not really noticeable.
1) Etched slices/ part slices:
a) 134.4 grams - 120mm x 75mm x 3mm - $250 – neat natural hole.
b) 168.1 grams - 130mm x 70mm x 3mm - $310 – neat natural hole.
c) 283.1 grams - 130mm x 80mm x 5mm - $400 – complete slice.

KATOL, India: Ordinary chondrite (L6). Fell May 22, 2012.
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KATOL, India: Ordinary chondrite (L6). Fell May 22, 2012. Tkw = around 13kg.
Here is something that I found waaay back in deep storage while doing inventory work that somehow I never got around to offering. This was an interesting and exciting meteorite when it fell. Several pieces hit/ fell through roofs. Many pieces also had a weird achondritic texture to them. I think this meteorite was considered to be an L7 or such for some time and recent papers are suggesting that this has been miss-classified and really is the first known L7 fall. I have very little of this (it was VERY expensive when I was finally able to get some through trades). All of these are fragments and all, but the smallest, are one of a kind (no replacements pieces available, unfortunately). All but the smallest piece have fusion crust. The 3.6g has secondary crust, the next two have large areas of primary crust and the largest piece, though very slightly weathered (the others are pristine fresh) is actually a complete individual with around 70% primary crust with the remainder being a very, very light secondary crust. These are being sold here for less (substantially less) than I paid for them years ago.
1) Fragments:
a) 1.7 grams - 12mm x 8mm x 7mm - $60
b) 2.5 grams - 12mm x 12mm x 5mm - $85 – 10mm x 5mm secondary crust.. NOT in group photo.
c) 10.6 grams - 22mm x 20mm x 7mm - sold
d) 22.9 grams - 32mm x 22mm x 17mm - sold
e) 35.1 grams - 29mm x 25mm x 22mm - $1000 – complete individual.

NWA (13384): Ordinary chondrite (L5). Found 2018. 
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NWA (13384): Ordinary chondrite (L5). Found 2018. Tkw = 465.3 grams
Here is a meteorite I accidentally ended up with when I purchased a batch of the NWA (11669) (offered on my last list). It indeed looked very much like the other pieces and liked to break apart (like the NWA 11669) upon cutting and polishing as well. As a result of this second part, I have numerous pieces of only a couple sizes to offer. As I had already cut/ polished this stone before fully realizing it was a different meteorite. The relatively chondrule poor mottled gray, brown, and orange interior should have been obvious had this not been the first piece of the batch I cut. The next piece was the proper chondrule rich texture for an LL3. I decided to keep it (got a bit of a refund on the original cost) and put it through research.
1) Slices:
a) 5.1 grams - 45mm x 15mm x 3mm - $8
b) 10.5 grams - 60mm x 20mm x 3mm - $16
2) End piece:
a) 156.3 grams - 60mm x 45mm x 30mm - sold

NWA (845): Rumurutiite (R4), W1. Found March 5, 2001.
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NWA (845): Rumurutiite (R4), W1. Found March 5, 2001. Tkw = 36g+
I am not certain where/ when I got this. I found a small Riker of slices of this hidden deep in a box of miscellaneous things while digging out stuff for the 2020 Denver show. The Riker had a few basic info cards that gave some detailed info (weathering grade, find coordinates, Faylite/ Ferrosillite numbers) but no name as to who made it up. I think that this is a “dealer lot” that I picked up in a collection somewhere and “set aside for the future”. Well, as the folks (Bunson Honeydew and Beaker) at Muppet Labs (from the old Muppet show in the 1970’s) used to say “the future is now”. These show the typical lack of metal (or magnetic attraction), lots of chondrules in a brown/orange matrix. I have less than 35g of this available.
1) Slices/ part slices:
a) .52 grams - 17mm x 6mm x 2mm - $10
b) .93 grams - 16mm x 9mm x 2mm - $18
c) 2.7 grams - 38mm x 12mm x 2mm - $40 – wedged, NOT in group photo..
d) 3.6 grams - 35mm x 26mm x 1mm - sold
e) 8.1 grams - 38mm x 30mm x 2mm - $150

NWA (8345): Carbonaceous chondrite. (CO3.2).
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NWA (8345): Carbonaceous chondrite. (CO3.2). Found before 2013. Tkw = 986..1 grams.
I got the main mass of this meteorite at the COMETS auction/ dinner event during the 2018 Denver show. I finally (over a year later) got around to cutting it up for sale. This was purchased as three pieces that fit together. The interior has many small chondrules, some small CAI’s in a dark brown matrix that makes up around 30% of this meteorite. Research work showed this to be a sub-type 3.2 stone – one of only 13 known (at the time of typing of this) CO3.2 meteorites world wide. This stone had a couple fractures that made it impossible to get full-sized large slices from it (I probably should have “stabilized” (glued it) before doing the cutting work). However, this did make it such that I ended up with more end pieces, cut fragments than I normally would have (I listed these, for space sake, as only by weight as each is a one of a kind weight).
1) Slices:
a) 1.9 grams - 15mm x 12mm x 3mm - $23
b) 3.9 grams - 21mm x 15mm x 3mm - $46
c) 8.6 grams - 35mm x 25mm x 3mm - $100
d) 16.6 grams - 60mm x 20mm x 3mm - $190
e) 33.3 grams - 70mm x 32mm x 4mm - $365
2) End pieces/ cut fragments: $10/g
Weights available: 5.5g, 12.2g, 20.3g, 52.2g, (73.3g sold)

NWA (13383): Achondrite. (Ureilite).
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NWA (13383): Achondrite. (Ureilite). Found before 2019. Tkw = 866.4 grams..
Here is something I really wanted to offer in smaller pieces. Try as I might, I was barely able to get the required material for research work removed (it took me something like an hour and a half to cut a 1” x 1 ½” surface area). Ureilites are interesting and still not really understood. They seem to be from a large parent body (one paper I saw recently suggests it was somewhere between the size of Mercury and Mars) that got smashed apart and then partially re-consolidated. This mixed things where things that were cooling slowly (deep inside) suddenly cooled quickly and the opposite, things that were solid/ cooled quickly became heated and cooled slowly. This piece I am leaving (for now) as the mostly natural main mass (I may try to get it cut in the future but the resulting slices likely won’t be cheap due to the extensive labor and destroyed saw blades that will result). A really nice solid specimen that is a great desk piece at a price likely lower than it would cost direct from Morocco these days.
820.3 gram fragment/ individual – 75mm x 70mm x 65mm - $3500

AUSTRALITE
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AUSTRALITE: Tektite from Australia.
It has been quite a number of years since I was able to get a handful of these. I just got these from a friend that has recently retired from the mineral business. He had these labeled as being from South Australia (I do have a few (6) more special/ interesting pieces from the Lake Torrens strewnfield, Lyndhurst, SA) but that was all. These are the usual round, egg shaped and button cores (nope, I didn’t get any flanged buttons in this lot). As I got a good deal on these, I am pricing these substantially cheaper than I usually ask for Australites for the time being.
1) Individuals as found:
a) 2.4 grams - 18mm x 13mm x 7mm - $7
b) 5.0 grams - 20mm x 19mm x 10mm - $15
c) 7.1 grams - 24mm x 18mm x 11mm - $21
d) 10.0 grams - 24mm x 22mm x 14mm - $30

Please note:
Shipping: For small US orders $5 is needed now. Rates have gone up yet more this tear and now the very cheapest I can send anything is right at $4. 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 $8 to $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 (Canada seems to be right around $11). 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.

Blaine Reed Meteorites For Sale- List 210 03JAN2018

Blaine Reed Meteorites For Sale- List 210

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

January 3, 2018
LIST 210

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

TUCSON SHOW INFO: I will be on the road from January 24th until around February 14th. For the show itself, I will be in my usual spot: Ramada Limited (665 N. Freeway, Tucson) room 134. I should be open by mid to late morning Saturday January 27th. I likely will indeed stay through the bitter end – February 10th will be the last day. 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.

Note on photos: I do have “group photos” of each of the lots listed below, so ask if you want me to e-mail one (or a couple) of these group photos. These photos have the exact specimens listed below. I often send the first requesters of a particular size specimen that I have multiple pieces of the largest/ nicest of that size range. You can request that I send you the EXACT one in the photo if you really want this (assuming that I still have it anyway).

GUADALUPE y CALVO, Mexico: Iron. Hexahedrite (IIAB). Found 1971. Tkw = 58.63 kilograms.
This was found in 1971 but was not recognized as a meteorite until 1990. It had a nice deep dish on one side and had done duty as a dog-food bowl for 20 years on a ranch in Mexico until it was recognized as a meteorite. Here is a selection of Schwade Collection pieces. Each will come with a Schwade collection label. As I also had part of this meteorite when it first came out I also have copies of my old labels I sent out with specimens I sold back then (so, like the Gan Gan on the last list, you will get two cards with these specimens). This batch did not lend itself well to breaking down into a catalog where I can list a piece and have back-up “replacement” pieces (for most of these anyway, particularly the smaller specimens). So, once the listed piece is sold, I will try to offer something similar, though it will be somewhat larger or smaller than the listed piece (but it’s appearance won’t differ much from the photographed piece overall).
Part slices: etched to show a very light Neumann line structure:
a) 43.4 grams - SOLD
a.2) (not shown in photo) 54.3 grams - 55mm x 27mm x 6mm - $210 - SOLD
b) 84.9 grams - 70mm x 30mm x 5mm - $320
c) 136.3 grams - 60mm x 50mm x 5mm - $475
d) 163.0 grams - 60mm x 60mm x 5mm - $530
e) 203.1 grams - 75mm x 60mm x 6mm - $600

NWA (8018): Ordinary chondrite. (H4), S2, W1. Found before Aug 2011. Tkw = 392 grams.
A single stone was purchased in Tamara, Morocco. Research work showed it to be an equilibrated (petrographic grade 4) H-chondrite. This study also showed that this is also a low shock, low weathering grade stone. The low shock I believe – the matrix is quite porous. The weathering grade I am not as certain of. This shows a good number of chondrules in a medium orangish brown (with hints of purplish undertones) matrix but very little metal is visible. Anyway, I (obviously) have very little of this available.
Slices:
a) 12.4 grams - 40mm x 34mm x 4mm - $20
b) 23.4 grams - 60mm x 43mm x 4mm - $35 – complete slice.
c) 43.4 grams - 70mm x 52mm x 6mm - $65 – complete slice.
End piece:
a) 36.3 grams - 50mm x 33mm x 12mm - $60

ALLENDE, Mexico: Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3.2). Fell February 8, 1969.
I found a batch of fragments that I had set aside over 15 years ago (probably closer to 20 years actually) in deep, deep storage. I got them in a trade with ASU. Unfortunately, I can’t even remember what it was I traded to them to get these. All I remember is that I got to scoop out a couple kilos of fresh fragments (all which were pretty much crust free and most of which I sold off years ago) from a large wooden crate full of the stuff as part of that trade. Anyway, I cut most of these pieces in half to make these nice cut fragments. As mentioned above, few show any crust but all are very fresh show lots of chondrules, CAIs and the occasional gold colored troilite inclusion.
Cut fragments:
a) 2.6 grams - 20mm x 18mm x 4mm - $35
b) 5.1 grams - 25mm x 20mm x 7mm - $65
c) 10.0 grams - 35mm x 26mm x 5mm - $125
d) 14.3 grams - 35mm x 27mm x 9mm - $175
e) 21.1 grams - 40mm x 25mm x 10mm - $250 May be SOLD
e.2 (not shown in photo) 21.4 grams 42mm x 25mm x 14mm - $250

NWA (11273): Lunar (feldspathic breccia). Found before April 2017. Tkw = around 130kg.
I know, the official report says that only 2.8kg was found of this. However, this is paired with a bunch of other reported NWA numbered pieces that, all together total around 130kg or so. To me, this is the (869) of the lunar world; abundant and beautiful (so many things there is a lot of are ugly, unfortunately). This has a fantastic truly moon-rock looking appearance with angular white to light gray clasts (of all sizes) in a dark gray background. Best of all, its sudden large quantity weight appearance (though the few biggest pieces – totaling something like 100kg are already safely in private collections) has brought the price down to a fantastically cheap level. Larger pieces, I have heard, are now hard to come by and prices on the smaller stuff is rising (at least based on the last stuff I was offered anyway). Here is your chance to get a truly moon-rock looking moon rock at a truly reasonable price. These are all cut fragments that I did my best to maximize polished surface area (and the “thickness”measurement is a measure of the thickest part, not an overall depth/ thickness). I do have some other slices available, but only a few.
1) End pieces/ cut fragments:
a) .90 grams - 15mm x 10mm x 5mm - $100
b) 2.00 grams - 25mm x 10mm x 5mm - $200
c) 3.36 grams - 22mm x 17mm x 5mm - $300 SOLD
c.2) (not shown in photo) 3.45g - 25mm x 17mm x 5mm - $300
d) 5.50 grams - 34mm x 19mm x 6mm - $495
e) 7.09 grams - 32mm x 26mm x 6mm - $635
f) 13.25 grams - 58mm x 24mm x 5mm - $1160
g) 29.07 grams - 60mm x 35mm x 10mm - $2500 SOLD
g.2) (not shown in photo) 27.25g - 60mm x 30mm x 11mm - $2300
h) 90.23 grams - 110mm x 40mm x 13mm - $7200
i) 184.4 grams - 95mm x 70mm x 20mm - $13,800 – a real hand specimen!

SEYMCHAN, Russia: Stony-iron (pallasite). Found 1967.
These pieces were cut from a chunk of Seymachan I picked up at the Denver spring show a few years ago. The piece in its natural state looked to be pretty much nothing but a mass of olivine crystals, many of which were super gemmy, and not much else. I had this professionally, wire-saw cut as I know it would have turned into a pile of crystals (but many of which could be faceted) if I attempted to do the job with my equipment. As expected, these thin slices show very little metal. Most have a vein of metal (that usually has some neat shaped chromite inclusions) that is around 5mm or so wide and only a few small isolated grains otherwise.  Interestingly, a fair number of the crystals are dark and shattered (likely through shock) but yet others immediately adjacent are absolutely glass clear. I sold quite a lot of this material in Tucson at $20 to $25/g but I am offering it a bit cheaper here to my regular customers
Slices:
a) 4.2 grams - 30mm x 25mm x 1.5mm - $65
b) 7.9 grams - 35mm x 35mm x 1.5mm - $120
c) 14.8 grams - 57mm x 40mm x 1.5mm - $200 – complete slice.
End piece:
a) 96.1 grams - 50mm x 40mm x 25mm - $700

LIBYAN DESERT GLASS:
This stuff has gotten hard to come by. The Russians were generally the only ones brave enough to go out to the area where this is found (it is an off-limits military area where they practice dropping bombs, or so I have been told). They are not allowed to go to Egypt these days after one of their airliners was shot down a few years ago. So, he who has some Libyan glass has it, he who doesn’t – tough luck. I stumbled into a person that had some set aside years ago recently. The pieces they had set aside were ones that have bands and zones of darker greenish-brown glass. I am not certain if it has been completely decided yet, but I recall that studies show that this darker glass may contain small amounts of the exploding body that formed this material. All of the pieces here were selected to show this darker glass – either a zones in areas of the piece, but most often as bands running through the specimen. Rare and interesting.
Individual pieces as found, showing darker glass bands and areas:
a) 3.5 grams - 20mm x 15mm x 12mm - $10
b) 7.4 grams - 30mm x 23mm x 12mm - $20 SOLD
b.2 (not shown) 7.7 grams- 26mm x 21mm x 11mm - $20
c) 15.0 grams - 40mm x 18mm x 18mm - $40
d) 24.8 grams - 45mm x 24mm x 20mm - $65
e) 44.2 grams - 55mm x 35mm x 30mm - $110 – only one this size. SOLD

Please note:
Shipping:  For small US orders $3 should still be fine. Larger orders are now $13 (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 $13 (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.  However, for overseas orders, it probably is best to go ahead and use my brmeteorites@yahoo.com e-mail.