Blaine Reed Meteorites For Sale- List 256 13DEC2022

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

December 13, 2022 LIST 256

Dear Collectors:
  I recently got done with the time consuming and tedious process of “Inventory”.

I have to pull everything out, open every box, weigh and record the items I still have in inventory at that time. I then make adjustments later – removing things that I managed to sell before the end of the year and adding things I end up buying before the end of the year.

Every time (each year) I end up with some items that I have little of (by weight or number of pieces). I like to offer these (generally at prices lower than earlier offerings) this time of year. A big part of this is if I can sell these items now, then I don’t have to have them as a “line item” in my inventory records carried over to next year. As you will see, these are “named” items (and may be more appealing to some of you as such) that I am trying to offer at “wholesale” prices in an effort to simplify my inventory records.

However, I will also say that you may consider contacting me if there was something on an earlier offering that you thought about getting. IF I still have it (and many things I do – or at least suitable replacements) let me know and I’ll see if I can’t give you a really nice Christmas- time price on it.



CALDWELL, Kansas: Ordinary chondrite L-impact melt. Found 1961. Tkw = 12.9 kilograms.
I remember Steve Arnold (Arkansas) and I tried for years to get this, or at least a piece of it. At the time, ANYTHING L-impact melt was quite in demand, rare and expensive (I think this was not far from when the Tucson Cat Mountain L impact melt that was bringing well north of $100/g). Not sure what changed, but, eventually, year after year of “NO!” turned into “YES”. So we (Steve and I – Steve mostly) finally got it. I did sell a fair amount of slices of this over the years (but certainly NOT for anything like Cat Mountain prices). All I have left are two part slices (they each have one straight cut edge). To be honest, this isn’t a really pretty meteorite - mostly mottled green and brown matrix with very little metal or distinct texture(s). The NWA (14930) L-melt I had on my last list is much prettier, but it is NOT a US named meteorite and this is priced very similarly!
1) Part slices:
a) 41.2 gram ½ slice – 80mm x 60mm x 3mm - $125
b) 63.5 gram ½ slice – 100mm x 70mm x 3mm - $190


CERRO MESA, Argentina. Ordinary chondrite (L6). Found 2006. Tkw = 10.5 kilograms.
Nope, don’t bother to try looking this one up. It is (far) more unofficial than “Ghadamis” listed below. I got a stack of ½ slices (they had one cut edge) probably back around 2008 or 2009. I was assured that it would show up as “official” not long after. Well, it has been more than 10 years and it ain’t official. I am done waiting. I have notes that say it is from Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina. It was supposedly found by the same person that found the Gan Gan iron meteorite. My note also says “may have fallen in 1993”. I can actually believe that part. The interior is very fresh. Lots of metal, minor amounts of orange spotting in a light gray (nearly white, actually) matrix. The “natural” edge is nice dark fusion crust (there is a chipped spot of around 1cm and a spot of adhearing caliche) I have two pieces of this (a third got sent to a museum for display – yes this is nice enough example of a fresh L chondrite slice) but I am thinking I’ll keep the smaller of the two for possible display purposes myself. Kind of (actually more than that) a shame this never got properly reported. It is nice material.
239.5 gram ½ slice – 130mm x 95mm x 7mm - $200


GHADAMIS, Libya: Ordinary chondrite (L6). Fell August 26, 2018. Tkw = 100+ kilograms.
I know, I know. This is NOT officially called Ghadamis but rather something completely uninspiring like HaH (436) I believe. I also know that this is “officially” only a find. There was a large fireball in the area and a bunch of super, super fresh chondrite individuals (I have one in my collection and another on a museum loan and they are, by far, the freshest chondrite examples I have) were found in the expected fall area soon ater. The Nomenclature Committee has become quite hard-nosed about what they are willing to allow to be reported as a “fall”. With good reasons. In more recent years, there has been some monkey business that has happened with people taking fresh pieces of earlier falls, trying to tie them to a “big fireball event” and pass them off as new (and often very expensive) meteorites. Now, a piece has to practically hit someone (or something) to be officially recorded as a fall (a direct REPUTABLE witness MUST be available). This was not the case here. This material is (to anyone that knows anything about meteorites) a witnessed fall (even if no one was right under the drop zone of any of the stones during the fall). I got a few pieces of this when it first became available (back in Tucson of 2019). I cut one or two of the stones up to be able to offer smaller pieces to collectors that didn’t want (or couldn’t afford) the paperweight model of this material (I sold some of those really quick as well, actually). These 7 small part slices (weighing from 2.3g up to around 6g or so) are all I have left of this meteorite in inventory. Each of these has at least one edge (and often two) of nice, fresh black fusion crust. I am offering these at about ¼ the price I sold them for originally and likely LESS than I have into them (particularly after saw and sanding losses). I just don’t want to “carry over” a mere 31.9g into the new year’s inventory records.
7 slices with some edge crust on each from 2.3g to 6g+. 31.9g total - $45

NORTHBRANCH, Kansas: Ordinary chondrite (H5). Found 1972, Tkw = 76 kilograms.
This was found in 1972 but not officially recognized as a meteorite until 1997, when I bought it. This was among the largest (if not the largest) “out of the field” meteorites I ever got. To be honest, it sure was not a pretty thing but it IS a named, US meteorite. I have sold pieces of it over the years – generally not putting much of a spotlight on it (maybe a 20 or 30g slice in a riker in one of my display cases or a semi large slice on a stand on the back of a table at a show). Now I am down to just 3 “semi-large” pieces and an 84g bag of fragments and slices (mostly slices around an inch or so across in size – probably 4g to around 10g each). When I have had this material out at shows, I have had it priced around $1.50/g for large pieces (like 700 or 800g size) and $1.75 - $2.00/g on smaller stuff. Prices here are much lower.
1) Slices: all have “natural” (not cut) edges:
a) 58.8 grams – 80mm x 55mm x 5mm - $60
b) 146.9 grams - 120mm x 67mm x 6mm - $140
c) 432.9 grams – 180mm x 170mm x 5mm - $390
2) Selection of fragments and slices (great for resale) 84.5 grams - $80


TULIA (a), Texas. Ordinary chondrite (H5). Found 1917. Tkw = 78+ kilograms.
Now THIS is a REAL Tulia. I have mentioned in the past how pieces of Tulia and Dimmitt (both H chondrites) got mixed and scrambled (and, in reality, a piece of Dimmitt went through as Tulia – giving Tulia a H3/4 classification. Nope Tulia is a somewhat fresher H5). This (and the Dimmitt pieces I have had) came from the Monig collection. I did a little research on this recently and found that, apparently, this is a) one of Monigs earlier pieces and b) Glenn Huss recognized it as a Tulia and not a Dimmitt when he and his wife spent months cataloging and labeling pieces in the Monig Collection back in 1981. You see, I have always kind of thought that this was an item labeled as a Dimmitt that happened to be a Tulia. Nope, Glenn recognized it and put a Tulia catalog number (M12.27) on it. I don’t think there were all that many labeled Tulia specimens in the Monig collection and fewer still were ever “released”. I mentioned that this was likely a fairly early recovery specimen for Monig as it also has his (actually done by him) white (well, more yellow these days) “12AI” on a black background cataloging number as well. From the Monig collection catalog, I learned that this is a coded note that could tell him the farmer/ rancher he got the piece from and, hence, roughly its original recovery location. Also, this piece came to me glued (quite sloppy, to be honest). Apparently, Monig did this himself (he would glue pieces together to “complete” the specimen and not loose track of the individual pieces) when broken pieces that fit together were recovered. This piece consists of a larger natural looking chunk (that has the two catalog numbers) and a 87.3g cut fragment that fits onto this. The smaller piece’s rough/ natural side fits to the obvious old natural break on the large piece and has a roughly 55mm x 44mm cut and polished face that CLEARLY shows that this is indeed fully a Tulia (a) specimen (different color, less chondrules, more metal than Dimmitt). As the old glue had kind of given way, I cleaned up a lot of the loose flakes and chips of that (it looked pretty ratty/ shabby otherwise). However, there are still some traces of Monig’s glue job on each of the pieces. Not particularly pretty, but a scarce specimen that has some interesting history attached to it.
563.2g specimen in two pieces – 65mm x 55mm x 50mm - $800.

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

I do have a fax machine that seems to work (but I have to answer it and manually turn it on), so overseas people can contact me that way if they must. However, for overseas orders, it probably is best to go ahead and use my brmeteorites@yahoo.com e-mail when possible.

Blaine Reed Meteorites For Sale- List 238, some older Texas pieces and Nothing

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

August 18, 2020

LIST 238

I know, it has been months since I sent out any kind of offering. This is mostly because I really have not had a lot of “new” stuff to offer. I still wouldn’t (aside from Nothing) as I have gotten very little new material lately (and have been hesitant to go try and find some until it looks like things might start getting back to normal). Most of this stuff is pieces of Texas meteorites that I offered years ago and then had hidden away. A new potential collector from Texas showed up several months ago, wanting (not surprisingly) Texas meteorites. I sold him a couple easy to access pieces at the start but he wanted more. So, looking over my inventory records I saw that I had some of these older pieces in a box that was inside another box that was buried in the back corner on the bottom shelf in my closet (some digging required). I pulled these out, cataloged them and offered them. I got a few “I’ll be back and pick a few specimens to buy soon” e-mails shortly after. Well, it has been a couple months now and no response. Rather than leave these set out for someone that has seemed to have already drifted on to other interests or put them back in their deep storage spot I decided to offer them here. This offering also allows me to make an announcement concerning the (at this point) still happening Denver Show next month.

NOTES ON DENVER:

Yep, it seems that there will be a show but there are some substantial changes (Crowne Plaza DIA – 15500 E. 40th Ave). The show dates have been trimmed back to September 11th through the 15th. The show times have been extended to (I believe) 8am to 8pm. I certainly don’t mind the 8pm thing but the 8am thing might be a problem some mornings. My room will have a different lay-out as I am required to keep wide isles (I’ll only put tables along the outer walls – no center tables this year). I also will only be able to have a couple chairs in the room. I think I can only have about 5 people in the room at any given time and with Mike and I needing to be there it is unlikely I can have the usual people hanging out (which is an important part of the show for me), unfortunately. Also, we already know that there will be pretty much no buyers from overseas (and many of the overseas sellers won’t be attending either). I suspect that many US buyers that would normally fly won’t show up either. As such, I plan to try and have a fairly good set up but already knowing these things (and having a shortened show) I probably won’t bring nearly as much stuff as I usually do (so contact me if you plan to come and there is anything you want me to bring or there may be a chance it doesn’t get brought). Given the unusual (and potentially dangerous) situations this year I had though of skipping this year’s show (particularly considering that Linda had a medical emergency earlier this summer that has her on immuno-suppressant drugs i.e. she is a very high risk person now) but have decided I just can’t risk it. I do need the sales it may (or may not) generate but more so I can’t risk loosing my current space. We were offered the chance to skip this year and were told by e-mail that we could have our “normal” space in 2021. And this I seriously considered (but Mike is really anxious to do a show). However, I do know that there are a LOT of other dealers that desperately want the space I have. If I skip this year and someone else is given the spot, and (to the management’s eyes) they “fit in the spot better” there might be a pretty high risk of getting scrapped off into the main ball room or a motel room (and given that this spot has completely changed the show for me, that would be economic suicide in the longer term). So, with some degree of financial need, Mike’s strong desire to go I will be there (trying to suck air through a _amned mask all day).

Anyway on to the goodies:

List #238
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DIMMITT, Texas: Ordinary chondrite (H3.7). Found 1942. Tkw = about 200 kilograms.
Here I have a nice complete individual and a complete slice. The slice I had set aside as part of a research set I put aside years ago. You see, there has bee a LOT of confusion concerning the Tulia and Dimmitt stones. I set aside distinct samples of each of these so I could recognize the different meteorites from each other in the future. Well, I have not done any field work in that area now (so no new meteorites coming in from there) for over 25 years now. The stone is a nice complete, interesting shaped Monig specimen that I got from David New very early when TCU first started allowing some of their “excess” materials go (nope, they are no longer doing this so don’t go to them for material). Unfortunately, back then they required that the Monig label (be it an actual Monig one or a late Huss one) be removed (though you can still see some hints of it) from the material in what turned out to be a futile attempt to keep it somewhat secret that they were releasing stuff.
a) 47.4 gram complete slice – 75mm x 40mm x 5mm - $90
b) 515.0 gram complete individual – 115mm x 55mm x 40mm - $650

GOMEZ, Texas: Ordinary chondrite (L6). Found 1974. Tkw = about 27 kilograms.
I’ve had this on my old original sent out by mail catalog for years.. I don’t send out more than a few a year these days. I haven’t offered any of the tiny amount I have remaining to more recent collectors in years so I thought I’d do it here. This stone was found in a roadside ditch near the town of Gomez. It is likely that it was put there by a farmer that had just bunged up his plow hitting it and wanted the damaging rock out of his field (this actually happens fairly often and is why I am often paying too much attention to the road-side ditches than I should when driving through farming areas). To me (as I have handled both stones) this looks like it is likely related to the earlier reported Seagraves C stone that was found on the porch of an abandoned house.
a) 7.8 gram part slice – 25mm x 15mm x 6mm - $20
b) 13.5 gram part slice – 27mm x 22mm x 6mm - $35
c) 19.3 gram part slice – 32mm x 25mm x 6mm - $53
d) 41.6 gram part slice – 55mm x 33mm x 6mm - $110

PLAINVIEW (a), Texas: Ordinary chondrite (H5), brecciated. Found 1917. Tkw = about 700kilograms.
Plainview is an interesting meteorite all around. First, it is likely that this should be classified as a witnessed fall. I large piece was found in nearby Cotton Center that had smashed a fence of a horse corral right after a large fireball was seen in 1903. The rest of the strewn field was discovered in 1917 around 10 miles away (and yes, the stones do match type and texture). Also, this meteorite is a regolith breccia from the surface of the H parent body. As such, fragments of many different kinds of meteorites (things that smashed into the H parent) have been found in it over the years. These two part slices are actually pieces left over from some research work long ago. They are basically the same size surface area wise but the heavier could certainly be easily split into thinner slices if someone wanted to.
1) Part slices:
a) 15.9 grams – 55mm x 23mm x 3mm - $50
b) 35.0 grams – 55mm x 25mm x 7mm - $90

TULIA (a), Texas: Ordinary chondrite (H5). Found 1917. Tkw = 78+ kilograms.
I know, I know, the official bulletin report has this meteorite listed as an H3-4 (which is how Dimmitt was listed until more research work on it showed it to be an H3.7). What happened those many years ago when this was studied is that all the meteorites that were found in the general area were mixed together. Yep, Dimmitt (and the associated real Dimmitt meteorite strewn field) are NOT very far away from where the Tulia pieces are found. So, when work was done on this meteorite the work was actually done on a mislabeled Dimmitt and not a Tulia stone. Tulia is not a type 3, it is a type 5. It is also generally fresher than Dimmitt (but not always – it really depends where the particular stone sat in the ground moisture environment).. Dimmitt very, very rarely shows any remaining fresh metal blebs. Many Tulia pieces do show substantial metal remaining (and the smaller pieces listed here do. The largest specimen is a bit sparse in this department but it certainly has the texture of an H5). I know these things because Glenn Huss informed me of this and I worked the area for years (and have actually found my own 8kg Tulia (a) piece) The two largest pieces both have the old Monig white letters/ numbers on black label and the largest specimen (which was once a complete piece that I cut in half many years ago) also has a white painted Huss label (M12.26) that he put there when he sorted and labeled much of the Monig collection years ago.
a) 14.4 gram end piece/ cut fragment – 45mm x 20mm x 7mm - $30
b) 22.6 gram end piece/ cut fragment – 43mm x 20mm x 10mm - $45
c) 78.0 gram part slice – 65mm x 65mm x 5mm - $150 – has 6mm x 3mm carbon looking inclusion.
d) 254.1 gram end piece – 70mm x 43mm x 40mm - $440 – 12AI Monig label.
e) 702.4 gram individual cut in half – 95mm x 70mm x 45mm - $1100 – 12JZ Monig label M12.26 Huss.

TULIA (b), Texas: Ordinary chondrite (L6). Found 1917, recognized much later. Tkw = 4.4kg+.
To even confuse things more than just the Dimmitt Tulia problem mentioned above, there was yet another overlapping strewn field – an L chondrite this time. A couple specimens (one in the Chicago Field Museum and another in the British Museum) were noticeably fresher than the typical Tulia/ Dimmitt stones. Cutting and research work revealed that these stones were L6 chondrites and were thus a new previously unrecognized meteorite. It turned out that TCU had one as well. I got some of this and sold all I wanted to sell quite rapidly years ago (there really is not a lot of this available).. I kept these pieces as part of my “Tulia research/ sorting things out set” for many, many years. The largest piece (a really nice full slice) had broken along a natural fracture. I put it back together to retain the nice complete slice form (it shows some nice fusion crust an sculpted shape along the edges). The others were from a smaller already broken specimen so I broke it down a bit more to be able to offer more and smaller pieces here.
a) 11.7 gram part slice – 35mm x 17mm x 7mm - $40
b) 24.7 gram part slice – 37mm x 30mm x 7mm - $80
c) 66.2 gram part slice – 60mm x 55mm x 7mm - $200
d) 204.1 gram complete slice – 100mmk x 90mm x 6mm - $560

Last, but not least, I bring you absolutely:

NOTHING, Arizona: Iron. Medium octahedrite (IID). Found 2010. Tkw = 3.7 kilograms.
I really knew nothing about this meteorite when it was first mentioned to me. It was sent to me along with a couple other specimens that I had actually purchased as the owner is hoping I’d put it out in Denver. I am certainly happy to do that but figured why not offer it here first? This wasn’t a real big recovery – only around 8 pounds total. It was found by a gold prospector using a metal detector. It was found buried a couple feet down about 4.5km north of the (now ghost town I believe) of Nothing.
199.8 gram etched end piece – 85mm x 27mm x 26mm - $1700

Blaine Reed Meteorites - List 132 15JAN2013

Blaine Reed Meteorites - List 132 15JAN2013

Blaine Reed

P.O. Box 1141

Delta, CO 81416

Ph/fax (970) 874-1487                                                                                                                                           

………………………………………………………..LIST 132

 January 15, 2013

Dear Collectors,

                Happy New Year!  Here is the E_ mail version of my mailed list that is just now getting into the hands of those I sent them to.

Show info: I will be gone from home from about January 29^th until about February 19^th.  I will be at my usual show location: Ramada Limited, room 134. This is at St Marys and the interstate (next to Denny's) - just 1/4 mile or so due West of Inn Suites (Now called Hotel Tucson City Center - where many of the other meteorite dealers are). My room is about mid-way down the length of the motel (right next to the walk through actually) on the west- side of the building (on the parking lot side - and there is often parking available right in front of my room). I should be open the afternoon of February 2nd through the afternoon of February 14^th  (NOTE: the show officially runs through Feb 16^th but I may leave a couple days early. PLEASE let me know if you plan on visiting later than that so I can be sure to stick around). I will be open every day in between - generally from 10AM until  - ? (usually at least 7pm if I am going out to eat and often until 10pm or so other nights).

DEPORT, Texas: Coarse octahedrite (IAB). Found 1926. Tkw = over 15kilograms.

Here are a few (and only a few) of the special pieces of this meteorite that were written about in a recent Meteorite magazine (August 2012 issue). These pieces belonged to Oscar Monig and are among the very first meteorites he acquired. It has become apparent that Monig labeled these in the early tradition of Nininger where the number represented the meteorite locality (in order of acquisition into the collection) and the letters giving the order of the specimens as they were acquired (A being the first, B the second and so on). These fantastic pieces were the discovery pieces that showed Monig had done this numbering/ cataloging system in his early days. These all have a number 1 (thus his first cataloged meteorite locality) and then letter(s) metal stamped into them on a flat ground off spot. These were sold to me as Odessas a few years ago, but this discovery (and working with Dr. Ehlmann at TCU who discovered their “Monig’s first meteorite” is a Deport specimen that has a punched label of 1B on it) clearly showed that these were really Deports. I had very few of these special labeled specimens and even less now (3 total remaining) of these historic specimens. These are all rusty brown (natural) and have nice sculpted shape.

1) Natural specimens with Monig metal punched catalog number:

a) 80.0grams (1L) - 40mm x 35mm x 15mm - $450

b) 184.7 grams (1F) - 52mm x 40mm x 20mm - $950 – particularly nice sculpting.

c) 261.3 grams (1V) - 70mm x 37mm x 70mm - $1300

NWA (7196): Ordinary chondrite (LL6). Found before January 2012. Tkw = 384.6 grams.

Here is a bit of an interesting item. I got this from Matt Morgan who picked it up in Tucson last year. He cut it into nice thin slices to sell but then ended up trading the lot to me. We both were very certain that this was either an LL3 or LL4 as it seems to show a lot of chondrules. Research work says it is a completely unexpected LL6! I had it looked at twice to be certain. Sure enough, it has very tight Fa and Fs numbers on the olivine and pyroxene so it is indeed highly equilibrated. Looking closely at a slice of this you can see that many of the “chondrules” may really be more of rounded breccia clasts (there are indeed larger cm sized light gray clasts with rounded edges visible in this material). All but the smallest size listed are complete slices.

1)       Slices (most are complete slices):

a) 4.0 grams - 20mm x 20mm x 3mm - $20

b) 7.0 grams - 40mm x 25mm x 2mm - $35 – complete slice.

c) 10.7 grams - 55mm x 26mm x 2mm - $50 – complete slice.

d) 16.9 grams - 65mm x 32mm x 3mm - $78 – complete slice.

NWA (7336): Ordinary chondrite (L6), S3, W3. Found before February 2012. Tkw = 18 kilograms.

I got a sack of chondrite last Tucson that contained one large fragment and a bunch of small pieces. Some of these pieces fit together and what little cutting I have done on a few of the small pieces showed it was the same material. I had the big piece professionally cut and polished and am offering one part of it here (I may keep the other for a nice moderately weathered L display piece). I will be offering small cut pieces of this material in the future once it warms up enough to actually do some cutting (has been lows of -10°F and highs in the teens to low 20s the past month). Anyway, this is a nice display specimen that stands up vertically on its own. It shows lots of somewhat oxidized metal (more gray metallic than fully shiny) in a mottled tan and brown matrix. I wanted to offer this now as I will take it to Tucson and (reasonably likely) sell it there.

                4913 gram end piece/ cut fragment – 240mm x 200mm x 60mm - $2000

TULIA (A), Texas: Ordinary chondrite (H5). Found 1917. Tkw = 78+ kilograms.

Like the Deports above, these have an early Monig cataloging number on them. In this case these are white paint on a black background. These are all #12 so Tulia was Monig’s 12^th meteorite locality cataloged into his collection. Each has further letters representing the order in which they were found/ acquired by Monig as well. I had quite a few similarly labeled specimens years ago but only have these three pieces remaining, now that we know what the numbers mean and their importance. Oscar Monig seems to have labeled very few meteorites in his collection this way. These pieces also have an

“M.#” label put on them by Glenn and Margaret Huss when they cataloged Monig’s collection in the 1980’s. These are all weathered natural fragments as found (some areas of crust still visible).

1) Natural fragments as found with early Monig labeling.

            a)  268.1 grams (12JM and M12.32) – 90mm x 50mm x 30mm - $470

            b)  338.1 grams (12IY and M12.35) – 75mm x 52mm x 35mm - $570

c)       397.5 grams (12V and M12.7) – 70mm x 65mm x 45mm - sold

NWA (7043): Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3), W1. Found before September 2011. Tkw = 166grams.

I got a small bag of fragments at the Denver show a little over a year ago. Cutting showed that it was likely a CV3. However, it has a slightly different look to it than I am used to. This looks somewhat like a CK in that it has hard dark chondrules in a fairly abundant lighter (greenish gray) matrix. Yet it also has (in some pieces) a fair amount of metal in and surrounding the chondrules like a CR. The classification report did not say, but I suspect that this is a “reduced” CV chondrite where as Allende and NWA 2086 are the “oxidized” variety I believe.

1)       Cut fragments:

a) 1.2 grams - 15mm x 11mm x 3mm - $18

b) 2.0 grams - 17mm x 13mm x 3mm - $30

c) 4.0 grams - 22mm x 18mm x 5mm - $56

d) 5.7 grams - 35mm x 14mm x 6mm - $80

e) 7.2 grams - 40mm x 15mm x 8mm - $100

NWA (4852): (Ureilite). Found before September 2007. Tkw = 1073.7 grams.

A single stone, broken in two was sold at the 2007 Denver Show. I got the bigger piece and I believe Ann Black got the smaller as it was put in the COMETS auction that year which I, unfortunately, did not get to attend (to busy in my room). I managed to talk Mike Martinez into cutting this stuff for me (a job I hate with this type meteorite – they take hours per slice and tear up saw blades, thanks to the diamonds and carbides in them). I got to spend many hours ripping up diamond sandpaper disks putting a polish on this stuff though. I get very few achondrites anymore (this is my last new one at this point) as the “out of the field” price on them is pretty much what I would want to be selling finished slices for per gram these days. I finally re-discovered this material while doing inventory work in late December. The large pieces are nice complete slices.

1) Slices:

                a) .94 grams - 15mm x 13mm x 2mm - $25

                b) 1.86 grams - 18mm x 13mm x 2.5mm - $55

                c) 4.2 grams - 25mm x 12mm x 4mm - $103

                d) 8.0 grams - 40mm x 20mm x 3.5mm - $200

                e) 20.1 grams - 40mm x 40mm x 4mm - $450

                f) 50.6 grams - 63mm x 60mm x 4mm - $1050 – complete slice.

                g) 61.6 grams - 72mm x 64mm x 4mm - $1250 – complete slice.

NWA (7045): Stony-iron (Pallasite). Found before September 2011. Tkw = 1127 grams.

I got a bag of small fragments of this “new pallasite” from a Moroccan dealer at the Denver Show. I knew it was oxidized, so there were no surprises there when I cut it. Frankly, this stuff would be close to impossible to sort from Huckitta if one accidentally mixed bags of each. However, the crystals in this material, on average, look much more like fresher olivine (more yellow orange) than those in Huckitta. Regardless, here are end pieces of a cheap pallasite guaranteed not to rust!

1)       Cut fragments:

a) 3.4 grams - 17mm x 14mm x 7mm - $10

b) 6.7 grams - 23mm x 22mm x 9mm - $20

c) 9.2 grams - 26mm x 20mm x 9mm - $27

d) 20.1 grams - 35mm x 25mm x 12mm - $60

e) 35.6 grams - 42mm x 30mm x 15mm - $105

METEORITE TRADING CARDS:

I have had these sitting in a corner of my office for a couple years now. These are the 2011 “Inaugural edition”. They are pretty much the same as sports cards or such but for meteorites. They have a picture of meteorite(s) from the locality on one side (most actually have photos on both sides - the NWA (869) ones came from me) and info about the locality on the other. There are 10 cards in a set (actually 11 if you count the cover card). I don’t know if there were any other series (years) done of these.

                2011 Inaugural Edition pack of 10 meteorite cards - $5

Please include postage: $3 dollars on small U.S. orders and $11 on large items for first class (insurance is extra, if desired). On small overseas orders, $5 is generally plenty (I'll have to custom figure the rate for large items). Registration is also recommended on more valuable overseas shipments - an extra $12.00.

                If you are sending a fax, simply begin transmitting when my line is answered. My fax will turn on automatically to receive (or I will start it if I answer) when you begin transmitting. Or use brmeteorites@yahoo.com, but calls generally get to me faster (I don’t live on the computer and constantly check e-mail as some do).