Blaine Reed Meteorites For Sale- LIST 254 9NOV2022 Museum Pieces

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

LIST 254 - November 9, 2022

Dear Collectors
Here is a selection of a few very expensive (overall price, not on a per gram level) items. These are things that I had planned on putting in an auction. However, the person I work with on such things completely skipped going to the Denver show this year. I was told that part of it was that he already had waaay more meteorites than he needed to fill the next couple auctions. IF he had come and I had given these pieces to him, it would have been mid to late next year before any of them would have a chance to be offered. I decided to go ahead and offer them now incase anyone out there wants to pick up a really nice pre-Christmas present for themselves (I am sure any collector wouldn’t mind if someone bought them one of these things for them for Christmas either). I really don’t expect to sell much (any) of these as these are some of the very highest priced items (again, in overall price, not per gram level) I have ever offered on any list (e-mail or otherwise). I just thought it would be interesting to see what happens offering these now (at roughly what would have been the auction reserve prices) and not wait 6 months, 9 months (or more??) holding them back only for auction.






AQUILE, Bloivia: Ordinary chondrite (H5). Fell November 20, 2016. Tkw = about 50 kilograms.
This is a nice big individual. Not many big pieces like this got out before the locals changed laws to make having these leave the country illegal. This fall was Bolivia’s second meteorite absolutely known to have come from Bolivia (there are a couple old irons listed as “may be from Bolivia” but their find locations are not known and their chemistry is very similar (to similar) to Campo). I personally found their first (a really, really weathered little H5 fragment called Sevaruyo). I kind of thought about keeping this big stone (and just might yet) but it kind of overpowers the little 1g Sevaruyo piece in my “Bolivia” collection. Right now, I am offering this at waaaay below what most people ask for pieces of this particular meteorite. When I first looked into pricing of this stuff a few months ago, I typically found it offered at well over $10/g (with $15 to $30/g most common). I was offered a smaller piece of this fall (a nice 700g size range fragment) by the original seller of this material in Tucson this year. He wanted around $7/g on the piece. This piece is closer to $4/g. This is a nice 3087g individual as found. It has about 75% or so primary fusion crust coverage. The broken/ chipped areas do show the brecciated interior structure nicely. I real museum piece from a fall that was not widely distributed into the collecting world before the “powers that be” in the fall area changed the rules on meteorite ownership/ exporting.
3087g individual as found – 210mm x 90mm x 70mm - $12,500






GIBEON,Namibia: Iron. Fine octahedrite (IVA). Found before 1836.
Here is a big end piece that a customer/ friend of mine bought many years ago. He heard about how high some Gibeon pieces were going for and decided to offer this piece. This is a nice piece BUT it does have a “problem”. It is one of the pieces that has suffered heating somehow. That was either by people trying to melt it down (though this shows no scorching or signs of that) or (more likely?) by being a piece near the surface of the original body in space when it got a bit to close to the sun at some point. As such, there are signs of the etch structure on the polished face but this piece will not etch nicely (at least on the end that has been cut. IF this is a “an-made” heating effect it is possible the other end of this piece might etch up better if that heating was concentrated on the now cut end of this specimen). I know that many people value Gibeon for the ability to cut it all apart and turn it into small etched jewelry pieces. Nope, this is probably not going to ever happen to this piece (though it would make nice mirror POLISHED jewelry pieces). This is probably best left as the visually nice, grunt to move it, specimen it is. The first dimensions listed below are the width and height of the polished face. The second is the depth of the end piece (IF this had shown a good etch, this thing would have produced plenty of nice slices).
21.66 kilogram end piece – 260mm x 110mm x 170mm - $24,500






ORIENTED NWA (unstudied):
Now this is a stone I A) really thought about keeping (and might still if it does not sell here) or B) putting into auction (which also may yet happen). This is, by far, the largest very clearly oriented meteorite of any type I have ever had. Oriented things like this also (sometimes) sell for incredibly stupid high amounts of money in auctions. This is a 10.3kg individual that, for the most part, managed to escape the wind-polishing that wiped away most NWA stone meteorite crust (this does have a corner on one side of the bottom where you can see this wind-polishing. From this it is easy to tell that this thing hit the ground still oriented with the nose down and buried deep enough to protect most of the fusion crust so it still shows proper fusion crust textures and flow lines. I am going to offer this here quite a bit cheaper than I had planned originally (I have somewhere the $ could benefit me more in the longer run right now) and see what happens. Part of me hopes to sell it but a large part of me also hopes I don’t (I doubt I’d ever come across a big oriented stone like this again. At least not at any price I could consider buying it).
10.305kg complete oriented stone – 230mm x 190mm x 120mm - $15,500

NWA (15200): Martian meteorite (Nakhlite). Found 2022. Tkw = 196 grams.
It was reported that “many” pieces of this were found. I suspect most of them were quite small (and I do have an assortment of smaller pieces, fragments and crumbs I plan to offer on a future mailed catalog once I get around to weighting and cataloging the stuff). This piece is the biggest that was available to me (by far). It is a really nice piece in that it has a lot of nice fresh shiny black fusion crust (covering around 2/3 of it). This does have “broken”, missing crust areas that show the granular interior. Again, this is another “really would like to keep it” (it is the biggest Nakhlite piece of any (but then, this like only the third Nakhlite I have ever had) specimen. I do kind of need/ want to run the XRF on this (I have so few data sets on Nakhlites) but (as are most) this is relatively fragile (friable – can be crumbled into small fragments easily) and I don’t want to risk accidentally breaking such a nice piece.. This is in a membrane box (not in the photos) and will sent to any new owner in this.
14.09g crusted individual – 27mm x 22mm x 15mm - $6500

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 253 30SEP2022

Blaine Reed Meteorites

P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
brmeteorites@yahoo.com
LIST 253 - September 30, 2022

See Full Note at bottom of post concerning substitutions.
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).
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SERICHO, Kenya: Stony-iron (pallasite). Recognized 2016. Tkw = tons.
Nope, these are NOT more pallasite pieces. These are actually pieces (all be it small) of etched iron from this huge find. It turns out that among the hundreds (thousands?) of pieces of this meteorite recovered only a tiny few (as in single digits, like 2 or 3, I am told) were all iron, no olivine specimens. This IS somewhat like Brenham, another large pallasite recovery where almost all pieces are olivine-rich but some are found that are all iron. Seymchan was only known as all iron specimens (and classified as such) for decades after it was originally discovered and only further intensive search work decades later turned up olivine baring specimens showing its true identity as a pallasite (but those olivine baring pieces were always, by far, rarer among the recoveries). These are nice small etched on both sides ALL IRON specimens that I got from a person that landed one of the two or three all iron pieces from this large and now famous find.
1) Part slices, etched on both sides:
a) 4.0 grams 18mm x 9mm x 3mm $14.00
b) 8.9 grams 17mm x 16mm x 3mm $31.00
c) 14.7 grams 30mm x 27mm x 3mm $50.00
d) 22.1 grams 39mm x 24mm x 3mm $75.00
e) 32.0 grams 40mm x 27mm x 3mm $100.00

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GHUBARA, Oman: Ordinary chondrite. (L5), black, xenolithic. Found 1954.
Here are some slices from a 6kg chunk of this meteorite I set aside many years ago. These turned out to be some of the best cut Ghubara I have ever seen. They have a nice medium to dark gray color showing lots of lighter colored chondrules and cm plus sized clasts and lots of fresh metal. This meteorite is more than just an L5. It is actually a regolith breccia that is composed of L5 clasts in an L3 host matrix (probably should have been called an L3 with L5 xenoliths actually). What is even cooler still is that recent research work has shown that this meteorite is a regolith breccia from the surface of the ORIGINAL L-parent body! That body got blown apart in an impact around 500 million years ago – resulting in a drastic increase in large (and small) impacts here on Earth not long after.
1) Slices:
a) 8.4 grams 30mm x 23mm x 4mm $17.00
b) 17.0 grams 35mm x 27mm x 5mm $34.00
c) 34.1 grams 38mm x 38mm x 5mm $65.00
d) 74.8 grams 75mm x 57mm x 5mm $140.00
e) 151.6 grams 90mm x 80mm x 5mm $270.00 – nice complete slice.
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NWA (14930): Ordinary chondrite. (L5) – melt breccia, W0. Found 2021. Tkw = 4798 grams.
Well, this was likely found late 2021 perhaps. I bought this during the delayed (until April) 2021 Tucson show. A dealer at my hotel had it sitting with a few other meteorites on the end of a table in room that was, otherwise, filled with fossils. I could see that it had melt/ flow veins all through it on its wind-polished surface so I knew it was going to be on the more interesting side of “ordinary chondrite”. Yep, I was right. Cutting and research revealed areas that are shocked and or melted but looked somewhat typical chondrite (these zones do contain small clasts of unmelted L5 material – hence the “L5” part of its classification) surrounded by thick veins of obviously melted and flowed material. Nice and interesting meteorite. Lots of metal and sulfides (some small and blebby) in a green/ gray matrix (the melt veins lean more towards green).
1) Slices:
a) 4.8 grams 19mm x 16mm x 5mm $18.00
b) 8.2 grams 25mm x 16mm x 5mm $30.00
c) 14.4 grams 40mm x 30mm x 4mm $50.00
d) 29.0 grams 55mm x 50mm x 4mm $100.00
e) 62.2 grams 95mm x 68mm x 5mm $210.00
f) 142.2 grams 125mm x 100mm x 4mm $450.00 – complete slice.
2) End pieces:
a) 478.3 grams 125mm x 60mm x 30mm $1100.00
b) 2620.5 grams 125mm x 90mm x 90mm $5000.00 – Main mass.
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DJOUA (001), Algeria: Enstatite achondrite (Aubrite). Found 2021. Tkw = 22.5kg +
It has been a looooong time since I have offered a new (or old) Aubrite on a catalog. I picked this up in Tucson as unpolished slices. Wow, I had no idea an aubrite could be so hard to polish. It took considerable time (and more than a few sanding belts) to polish these. This is really interesting stuff. It has a white, light tan to dark brown mixed/mottled texture. Many (most, actually) of my pieces have a considerable amount of fresh metal scattered through parts of them. XRF work suggests that this is likely from other meteorites impacting the parent body of this material (the metal-rich pieces have a way higher iron content then the iron-poor areas clearly showing that the iron is NOT from being brought out of the minerals. But then, the minerals in this type meteorite contain very little iron to begin with). Neat stuff at a really affordable price for this very rare type of meteorite.
1) Slices:
a) .88 grams 10mm x 9mm x 3mm $25.00
b) 1.5 grams 18mm x 17mm x 3mm $42.00
c) 3.2 grams 25mm x 11mm x 3mm $88.00
d) 6.5 grams 23mm x 22mm x 4mm $175.00
e) 12.2 grams 33mm x 22mm x 5mm $315.00
f) 26.6 grams 57mm x 33mm x 4mm $650.00 – Complete slice.
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IMPACTITE: Henbury Crater, Australia.
Impactites are a glassy froth resembling volcanic cinder but are created by the melting of rock during the formation of an impact crater. These pieces were formed around 5,000 to 10,000 years ago when the Henbury meteorite impact created 13 craters. As meteoritic material is mixed in with the terrestrial rocks during impact, impactites contain small bits of meteorite mixed throughout them. If these were cut, these pieces of meteorite would be visible as small bright shiny metal blebs. I did not cut these particular specimens as my experience the last time I had some of these from Henbury (quite a few years ago) showed me that these particular impactites are a bit to frothy to cut and polish nicely. So, I decided to leave these in their “as found” condition. I have only one of the largest size listed here.
1) Specimens as found:
a) 1.8 grams 18mm x 15mm x 10mm $4.00
b) 3.0 grams 24mm x 15mm x 10mm $6.00
c) 5.5 grams 30mm x 18mm x 10mm $11.00
d) 7.7 grams 30mm x 23mm x 16mm $15.00
e) 11.1 grams 30mm x 30mm x 18mm $22.00 – only one this size.
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A note concerning the photos in this offering:
I want everyone receiving this post with imbedded group photos of the items on this list that the item pictured MAY NOT be the identical item you receive (except for cases where I have clearly labeled an item as “the only one this size” or similar). I usually have (and sell) multiple pieces of each size of the items listed (sometimes MANY of them – far to many to put all in a photograph for people to pick from). What I normally do is send the first person that asks for a particular item the largest piece available in whatever size range it is that the specimen they are buying belongs to (when I send a piece that is not in the photo, you generally get a very similar but slightly larger piece). This came about as MOST of my sales from these periodic (three times a year) catalogs come from the paper mailed version of this offering where no photos exist so customers don’t know exactly what the piece they ordered looks like (and are usually quite happy to receive a slightly larger specimen instead). So, you can certainly request the exact item in the group photo and I am happy to send it if someone else hasn’t already requested it. Please let me know if you would likely ONLY be happy with receiving that actual pictured piece(s) and I will NOT do any substitution(s) in your order.


Shipping: For small US orders $5 is needed now. Larger orders are now $10 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 $20 plus insurance (but insurance is relatively cheap for registered packages).

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 252 22AUG2022

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

LIST 252 - August 22, 2022


Dear Collectors

Here is the “other” list I mentioned I’d be doing when I sent out the last one. It got delayed for a number of reasons. It seems everyday lately I get tied up with some kind of new battle of one sort or another. I (more or less) finish one and a new one pops up.

DENVER SHOW:
Yep, this is coming waaay too soon for me. I am trying to get ready but having limited success. Anyway, this year it is September 9th through the 17th. I am at the same spot – Frisco meeting room on the west-side of the convention center at the Crowne Plaza (I-70 and Chambers road). I’ll be open 10 am (some days earlier) until - ?? I like to stay open later but the show folks have been locking the doors around 7pm (you can still reach me by going through the lobby doors). I’ll stay open as late (reasonably – no 1am or 2am nights) as people are visiting.

On to today’s list!:

FRANCONIA, Arizona: Ordinary chondrite (H5). Found October 31, 2002. Tkw = about 100kg.
Well somebody got quite the Halloween treat here. It was a meteorite hunter that just thought the area looked good for hunting (fairly level, lack of vegetation and natural rocks) and gave it a shot. Yep, he managed to stumble into one of the largest Arizona strewn fields currently known. I got these three pieces in Tucson this year from a metal-detector guy who found them himself many years ago (he couldn’t remember if it was 12 or 15 years). Anyway, all three of these are complete individuals. The two smaller have complete primary fusion crust coverage. The largest piece (the second largest Franconia piece I have ever had) looks like it is a “half stone” (about 60% primary crust and then about 40% “broken” surface). Well, the guy that found this found it in two pieces. He (rather poorly) glued the pieces together (I cleaned off a lot of the excess glue but plenty still remains). He did look for more pieces, recognizing that there was, obviously half missing. He found no further pieces. I know why. Careful inspection of the “broken” surface shows tiny areas of melted (crust) material. So, this “broken” area is actually an area of very light secondary fusion crust from this stone breaking very late in its fall.
a) 162.9gram complete individual – 47mm x 36mm x 35mm - $150
b) 409.4 gram complete individual – 60mm x 55mm x 50mm - $350
c) 913.6 gram individual ~40% secondary crust – 140mm x 60mm x 50mm - $700



NWA (2995): Lunar: Feldspathic breccia. Found 2005. Tkw = 538 grams.
NWA (2995) was noted (and still is) as one of the very best looking Lunar meteorites. It has the classic white to light gray clasts in a medium gray background. Pieces of this meteorite have always commanded a premium because of this. I sold this to its current owner (it was a consigned specimen back then as it is now) back in January of 2016. This is a 3.08g complete slice that cost him $2200 at the time (this was priced at $4500 not a lot earlier). Wanting to put $ towards travel and other things (photography equipment I believe) he says “sell”. At this point, $1500 is being asked. Yes, high (per gram) when compared to other more recent lunar material but, by far, the cheapest I have seen a piece of this really pretty moon rock. Also, for history sake (?), included is the original invoice I sent with the piece when I sold it to him in 2016.
3.08 gram complete slice – 42mm x 30mm x 1mm - $1500

NWA (7983): Achondrite (Ureilite). Found 2012, Tkw = 424 grams.
I got these pieces in Tucson this year. They are nice thin pieces and clearly show the classic triple-junction crystallization texture typical for Ureilites (and Brachinites actually). These pieces are NOT polished. Another classic feature of ureilites is that they are often nearly impossible to cut and polish (so much so that slices of ureilites like these are very uncommon). To be honest, I never even tried to polish these. I have destroyed enough saw blades and sanding belts prepping other material lately, I really didn’t want to risk it. Part of this is a partially sanded/ polished slice looks terrible. It is kind of an all or nothing deal. Do ALL of it or don’t start. So, be ready to donate hours (a day or two) and lots of equipment (many, many silicon carbide sanding belts or more than $100 of diamond ones) or don’t begin. I chose the “don’t start” as I can see one side of the large slice here that the saw blade that cut it really struggled – indicating that this is NOT one of the (very rare) easy to polish ureilites. It turns out the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up or this says “diamonds ubiquitous” (means lots of them everywhere in this thing).Thankfully, each of these has at least one side (the smaller piece – both sides) where the cutting went pretty well – leaving an unpolished saw cut surface that is not distracting.
a) 10.3 gram part slice – 65mm x 30mm x 1.5mm - $200
b) 45.1 gram complete slice – 80mm x 70mm x 2mm - $800

PEEKSKILL, New York: Ordinary chondrite (H6). Fell October 9, 1992. Tkw = 12.57kg.
I remember making the mold of this meteorite. I had to apply a layer of latex (and occasional cheese cloth) like every 15 minutes. Nope, didn’t get much (any?) sleep that night. I flew back home (from northern Montana to Durango) when done, getting home quite late. Then another night of almost no sleep. It was back to the Durango (well, La Plata County if you want to be a stickler about names) airport around 5:30 or so the next morning for a ride to Germany. Anyway, the mold worked out really well so the meteorite was then cut. This is a part slice from that cutting. This slice does have a little bit of brown staining (mild oxidation) but clearly shows the classic breccia texture of this meteorite. Also classic for this fall that totaled a Chevy Malibu is super thick (like over 1mm thick) fusion crust (that all of us worried might peel off when the stone was removed from the mold I had made but, thankfully, didn’t). The longest side of this triangular shaped slice is a crusted edge showing this super thick crust. This comes in an Impactika membrane box but it is not in that box to show the piece better in the group photo.
2.90 gram part slice – 25mm x 11mm x 4mm - $1000

RED DEER HILL, Canada: Ordinary chondrite (L6). Found 1975. Tkw = 25kg.
Aside from Buzzard Coulee and White Court, I’ve had very few Canadian meteorites in recent years. I got these pieces from the same person I got the Peekskill listed above from. The smaller one has a Kansas Meteorite Society COA. The larger piece’s info is still missing (but being looked for). Regardless, the appearance and textures of both pieces are identical. This is NOT cheap for a chondrite find, admittedly, but pretty much any and all Canadian pieces I have offered (regardless of “cheapness”) have all sold very rapidly (and, usually, back to collectors in Canada). Each of these are in a membrane box but are not in these for the group photo to better show the specimens themselves. Both pieces are wedged in their cut, so the listed thickness is just something of a mid-range.
a) 2.46 gram part slice – 15mm x 14mm x 3.5mm - $75
b) 6.58 gram part slice – 25mm x 20mm x mm - $200

TULIA (a), Texas: Ordinary chondrite. (H5). Found 1917. Tkw = 78+kg.
This piece is from a REAL Tulia(a) specimen I have had tucked away for years. I say “real” as Tulia(a) has suffered something of an identity crisis most of its existence. The Dimmitt strewn field is quite close (just to the west). Back when ‘Tulia’ was studied, nobody had considered two different meteorite strewn fields could be that close together. As such, a (more commonly found, but found slightly further west) Dimmitt stone was studied and reported as Tulia. So, “officially”, most of the records have Tulia(a) as an H3/4. Nope, that is what Dimmitt is (well, even that is a bit different now. Dimmitt has been reclassified as an H3.8 I believe). The real Tulia is an H5 and shows a good amount of fresh metal (Dimmitt rarely shows any). Anyway, this is a guaranteed real sample of Tulia (a).
22.6 gram end piece- 40mm x 22mm x 12mm - $55

TULIA (b), Texas: Ordinary chondrite, (L6). Found 1917, recognized later. Tkw = 4.4+kg.
Now, just to show what a mess the Tulia meteorite area is, in addition to Dimmits getting mixed in, we have at least one L-chondrite(*) in the mix. A couple of pieces of “Tulia” were recovered and sitting in museum collections (Chicago Field Museum and British Museum). Nope, they weren’t “Tulia” actually, they were L-chondrites. I don’t know when this was finally realized, but it turned out that TCU had a couple as well. I managed to get a 1400 gram individual of this “new” meteorite from them (helping them identify it and keep a larger piece of the same material for their collection) years ago. This part slice is (likely my last) piece from that 1400g piece. This shows nice weathered fusion crust along 50% of its edges.

*- I have yet another L chondrite from the area. It is very fresh (nice fusion crust) and had lots of chondrules that looks certainly to be a type 4 (certainly NOT a 6). I spent the money years ago on it to have the chemistry run and found it has pretty much identical Faylite (iron in olivine) numbers as the known Tulia (b) L6. Despite this, I am absolutely CERTAIN it is a new meteorite (it has obviously been on the ground far less time than Plainview, which likely fell in 1903) but no way to “prove” it (and I have to little to try and report it as a new meteorite, unfortunately).
17.6 gram part slice – 38mm x 2mm x 7mm - $60

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- List 251 19JULY2022

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

LIST 251 - July 19, 2022

Dear Collectors

Once again, I have been severely slacking in my e-mail offering duties. I have been tied up with all kinds of things. Projects, some travel (more of that to come in a couple weeks) and general stuff. I have also not had a lot of offering worthy items come in lately (but that is changing. I should be doing another offering with some Lunar, a Canadian meteorite and more fairly soon).

This is an offering of some nice iron meteorites that have managed to come in and pile up a bit lately. Some of these were in a collection I bought over a year ago that I just now finally went through. It was 9 large beer-flat boxes full of mostly small things. It took days and days to go through and sort. The larger items I picked up elsewhere (the Grein (005) I had never heard of before and picked up while in Denver last week).

This offering is a little out of sorts. It is NOT alphabetically listed as usual. This is mostly due to how I had pictures of some of these things already set up from earlier. So, I am listing the Gan Gan, then the Guadalupe Y Calvo (as I already had photos of these in my computer files) and THEN the other (3) items as these pieces will be in a group photo.

GAN GAN, Argentina: Iron. Fine octahedrite (IVA). Found 1984. Tkw = 83kg.
Here is a nice complete slice of this pretty meteorite. I had some pieces (part slices mostly) of this a few years ago and sold out fairly quickly. I can’t remember exactly what price I had on those, but I think it was something around $4/g (they were consignment pieces). I lucked into this piece by a collector contacting me asking if I could get any of this particular meteorite for them (I got them 3 pieces actually). I contacted the person I knew had pieces in the past. Yep, they had a few left. I got all that they would sell (a couple pieces were going to other collectors as this piece was scheduled to do as well until the other buyer ended up passing on it. Understandable, it is a pretty big chunk of money and things are getting a bit weird in our economy right now). This slice is etched on both sides, though the back was not sanded smooth first (so there are some remaining saw marks hiding in/ under the etch). This comes with one of my info cards from when I first offered pieces of this material many (like around 30) years ago as well as a Schwade Collection label.
851.2 gram etched complete slice – 250mm x 150mm x 5mm - $2500



GUADALUPE Y CALVO, Mexico: Iron. Hexahedrite (IIAB). Found 1971. Tkw = 58.63kg.
I remember buying this one. A guy in Tucson had it and we (several of us, including Jim, who I got these from relatively recently) made a special trip there to negotiate the purchase. We were, eventually, successful but not so on the Canyon Diablos the seller had (he had the better part of a bucket full of thumb-sized Canyon Diablos with a “number painted on each” (those were Nininger numbers!!!!!). He refused to sell them as he wanted a piece of Haag’s Odessa action (Robert would tumble polish small Odessa pieces and then sell pretty much all he had in minutes at around $1/g). This guy insisted on keeping the pieces so he could (and did, unfortunately) tumble them up and sell them for “big bucks”. He was under the (mistaken) impression that these piece being a) bigger and b) not Odessa would sell for far more than $1/g (they didn’t)). The Guadalupe was a success for all of us. It was no longer going to be just an unknown dog-food bowl on a ranch in Mexico. Collectors were going to be able to get a piece of a Hexahedrite which was a hard to come by type iron back then (and not terribly common even these days, actually). Wish we had better luck in our attempts to buy the Canyon Diablos. These are all half slices. They have one cut edge with the remainder being natural. These have been etched (on one side only) but, to be honest, this stuff does not show a whole lot – just some fine scratch mark looking lines (Nuemann lines). I had some of this a few years ago. I sold out of this fairly quickly as well. I found the card that I had in the Riker with those specimens when I put them out at shows. That had the price at $4/g. I am making these pieces substantially cheaper now (these are fairly large pieces). These all come with one of my original Guadalupe info cards and a Schwade Collection label.

1) Part slices. One cut edge:
a) 243.6 grams – 110mm x 55mm x 5mm - $700
b) 296.8 grams – 120mm x 65mm x 5mm - $850
c) 349.1 grams – 130mm x 75mm x 5mm - $1000



CAMPO DEL CIELO, Argentina: Found 1576. Tkw = A LOT!
This is an etched (on both sides) complete slice. It was one of the specimens I pulled out of the above mentioned 9 box “collection” (more like an accumulation) of anything/ everything the guy could get for close to opening bids on E-Bay over many years, I suspect. He must have had well over 10,000 individual specimens! I think he was single, no kids, and did little but buy meteorites on E-Bay for his entertainment. Surprisingly, this (and the Morasko pieces below) were some of the largest/ best pieces in the mix(!!! – most of the stuff I packaged up, labeled, priced and sold as a lot to a friend that runs a large retail store). Anyway, if I don’t sell this here, I’ll probably set it up in a Riker (labeled and such) and put it out in Denver (at a slightly higher price – rikers have gotten surprisingly expensive lately. But then, so has pretty much everything else).
49.7 gram slice. Etched both sides – 70mm x 28mm x 3mm - $50

GREIN (005), Niger: Iron. Medium octahedrite (IIIAB). Found 2015. Tkw = 52.5kg.
This is listed as being purchased on December 22, 2015. It was a single specimen (that actually had a nice point/ cone shape from the picture I was able to find of it online). I got this mostly complete slice (it has a 25mm straight cut on one end that is hardly noticeable) while I was in Denver a week ago. It, like the Gan Gan above, is etched on both sides but polished down only on one. I had never heard of this meteorite before (and RARELY get the chance to get an etched medium octahedrite). This slice does have a few tiny brown spots but, overall, looks really nice. This has had some kind of treatment done on it (stabilization, etching) and is supposedly guaranteed to stay good (nope, ocean side, next to the aquarium, in the shower (yep, I actually had a guy do that with a Brenham once!) or by the hot tub does NOT count) and will be re-treated if it becomes needed.
319.4 gram slice – 150mm x 70mm x 5mm - $475

MORASKO, Poland. Iron. Coarse octahedrite (IAB). Found 1914. Tkw = over 1000kg.
These two pieces were in the 9 box “collection” and were some of the few specimens I decided to hang on to for this type offering or selling at a show (Denver in September is my next big one. It looks like I’ll be going to Creede for their show August 5th, 6th, 7th but I don’t plan on bringing these pieces. However IF one of you seeing this offering is going to the show and wants me to bring either of these (or anything on this list) please let me know and I’ll put it in the “take” pile). The smaller piece is an end piece that is just polished on the face. The back-side has been substantially cleaned (shows some shiny metal but has considerable area that looks wire brushed). The bigger piece is a part (1/2) slice. It is polished and etched on both sides. It has been quite awhile since I have had a piece of this stuff. It will probably be awhile before I get another piece as well.
a) 31.9g end piece with polished face – 40mm x 30mm x 6mm - $70
b) 53.6g part slice. Etched both sides – 55mm x 30mm x 5mm - $115

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.

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Blaine Reed Meteorites  For Sale- List 250  16APR2022

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

Email- brmeteorites@yahoo.com

LIST 250
April, 2022

Dear Collectors,
Part of me thought about not even doing this offering. I skipped last year’s “Spring List” (no ensuing disaster happened) and I have been having considerable trouble getting things bought, studied and prepared to put on these lists. Oddly, I am really short the cheap, ordinary chondrites at the moment. I have looked into getting some studied but most (all?) the research folks are absolutely buried/ back-logged right now. I did send some off to my usual research folks and then found out that they have some 800 (!!!) meteorites ahead of me. Mine might be some years out before they get looked at. Anyway, this shortage of “New” material (and the difficulties of getting affordable, interesting specimens these days), along with the fact that Tucson was SOOO good sales-wise I really, really had considered dropping this Spring offering once again this year. It is usually one of my slowest sales-wise (taxes, upcoming family vacations more on collector’s minds?) and putting this out does potentially jeopardize my ability to put a Fall/ After Denver offering together. However, I have had SO Many calls and e-mails from people asking “when are you sending out a new list” I figured I had better go ahead and make one.

 

SAINT-AUBIN, France: Iron. Fine octathedrite. (IIIAB). Found 1968. Tkw = 472kg.
Here are some nice, etched on both sides, part slices. I picked these up in Tucson just a couple months ago. Originally, 5 pieces of this meteorite were found by farmers plowing. Original research had this meteorite listed as an “ungrouped” iron. More recent work shows that it is actually a high Nickel (at around 11.5%), high Gold (still parts per billion – no mining possibilities here), low Iridium member of the (IIIAB) group. This meteorite contains lots of Phosphorous. It has two related Fe/Ni Phosphate minerals (Sarcopside and Graphtonite) as well as large Schreibersite blades up to 6cm long.
Part slices, etched on both sides:
a) 10.0 grams - 23mm x 22mm x 2.5mm - $40
b) 20.0 grams - 34mm x 26mm x 3mm - $75
c) 30.0 grams - 44mm x 23mm x 3mm - $105
d) 44.1 grams - 45mm x 45mm x 3mm - $145

 

NWA (4851): Ordinary chondrite. (L6), S3, W1. Found 2007. Tkw = 6.3+ kilograms.
I offered this nice, quite fresh meteorite on a list in the past and it proved quite popular (and still sells well when I put out the occasional sample at shows). I had only a few largish pieces until I saw that the person I originally got them from (back in 2007) had another kilo or so of pieces in Denver last year (his initial asking price was higher than I have these priced here). I bought them and now they are being offered here. I generally try not to “duplicate” stuff I have offered earlier BUT, as mentioned above, I am running low on “common” chondrites I can put on these lists and this is nice stuff and will likely be of interest to collectors that have come along since I last offered this material nearly 15 years ago. These are nice individuals and cut fragments. The individuals are all pretty much complete (only the largest piece would be the exception). The cut fragments are all one of a kind, with the smallest pieces being really fresh (ask for a group photo of either the individuals or the cut fragments if interested).
Individuals:
a) 52.8 grams - 32mm x 30mm x 22mm - $70
b) 80.9 grams - 47mm x 35mm x 25mm - $100
c) 122.3 grams - 40mm x 37mm x 35mm - $145
d) 213.1 grams - 55mm x 47mm x 37mm - $235

Cut fragments: all are “one of a kind”.
a) 20.0 grams - 35mm x 30mm x 10mm - $35
b) 47.0 grams - 55mm x 40mm x 10mm - $70
c) 68.7 grams - 60mm x 40mm x 12mm - $95
d) 145.5 grams - 70mm x 60mm x 13mm - $200
e) 276.9 grams - 75mm x 60mm x 5mm - $345 – actually an end piece.

TSAREV, Russia: Ordinary chondrite. (L5). Found 1968, Tkw = 1131kg.
This meteorite was first found in 1968 but was not recognized until 1979. It has been suggested that this fell on December 6, 1922 though my personal belief is that the weathering shows otherwise (but then, it was 46 years and if it is a high ground moisture area….). I have had pieces of this meteorite in the past, but it has been quite some time. Regardless, many of these pieces are a bit different. Most of the slices I have had of this meteorite in the past had pretty a pretty typical L5 appearance;lots of metal grains in a dark matrix, and many (but not all) of the smallest piece here look this way. However, many of the larger specimens (31g and above) show clear impact melt effects. The somewhat “normal” looking areas show lots of shock induced veining. Then there areas showing large scale clear shock melting and flowing (a few slices have what look to be thin almost all glass shock veins). An interesting meteorite with interesting stories to tell.
Slices:
a) 4.3 grams - 22mm x 17mm x 3mm - $14
b) 7.9 grams - 33mm x 25mm x 3mm - $25
c) 15.9 grams - 38mm x 36mm x 3mm - $48
d) 31.5 grams - 92mm x 55mm x 3mm - $93
e) 63.9 grams - 85mm x 80mm x 3mm - $180 complete, ½ shock melt.
f) 117.9 grams - 120mm x 95mm x 3mm - $325 – complete slice.

 

NWA (13382): Ordinary chondrite. (L3) S2, W1. Found: Before February 2016. Tkw = 875.0 grams.
A single stone was purchased from a Moroccan dealer during the 2016 Tucson Show. This stone showed an interesting large (4cm plus) dark clast on its surface. Cutting showed many well-formed chondrules, fresh metal in a finer grained matrix along with a large dark gray/ black melt rock clast. Research work indeed showed that this was the case. The bulk of this stone is an L3 and the large gray clast is a melt-rock clast. I only cut a few pieces off of this stone such that each resulting piece has a good sized piece of this melt rock inclusion. As such, all the pieces listed below are strictly “one of a kind”.
a) 24.0 gram slice – 60mm x 45mm x 4mm - $40 melt clast roughly 30mm x 20mm.
b) 112.9 gram end piece – 75mmx 52mm x 14mm - $140 – melt clast 30mmx 17mm.
c) 660.3g end piece/main mass – 80mm x 50mm x 50mm - $595 – melt clast 40mm x 40mm.

NWA (5423): Rumurutiite. (R3.8), S2, W5. Found before February 2008. Tkw = 1120 grams.

It has been quite awhile since I have had an R-chondrite on a mailed list. Frankly, its been quite awhile since I have been offered a new “out of the field” piece either (I have had a few slices of known ones come in as part of collection purchases). Matt and I got this 10 plus years ago and I set it aside and kind of forgot it. Most of this was quite weathered and would fragment when cutting. I managed to cut one solid piece into some nice solid slices. This has a color (kind of gray-brown) that is noticeably different from other R’s.
Slices:
a) 1.2 grams - 15mm x 9mm x 3mm - $18
b) 2.6 grams - 25mm x 13mm x 2mm - $39
c) 5.7 grams - 45mm x 20mm x 2mm - $85
d) 11.2 grams - 45mm x 35mm x 2.5mm - $160
e) 20.1 grams - 50mm x 40mm x 3.5mm - $275

NWA (13677): Primitive achondrite. (Winonaite). Found 2020. Tkw = 2.3+ kilograms.
Many pieces of this rare meteorite were found in the same area. Though there are large variations in metal content between various pieces, research work showed that they are all part of the same meteorite. Primitive achondrites (of which Brachinites and Acaplulcotites/ lodranites are members) are a rare type meteorite that have chondritic compositons but have been heated/ melted enough to have an achondritic texture (but not melted enough to change their elemental chemistry). Winonaites appear to be closely related to and likely came from the same parent body as the IAB iron meteorites. I think this is only the second time I have offered a Winonaite on a list. The first time was years (decades?) ago and was (very small) pieces of the actual Winona, Arizona meteorite, the name sake of this group of rare meteorites.
End pieces/ cut fragments:
a) .70 grams - 12mm x 9mm x 3mm - $20
b) 1.40 grams - 13mm x 12mm x 4mm - $40

c) 2.52 grams - 20mm x 12mm x 6mm - $66
d) 5.0 grams - 35mm x 18mm x 5mm - $125
e) 10.8 grams - 31mm x 25mm x 10mm - $270

MICROBIAL MAT: Dresser Formation, North pole dome, Western Australia. 3.49 billion years old.
I had some of these several years ago (May 2016 I believe) and sold out almost immediately (these ancient rock things are very popular with meteorite collectors). I was able to get around 8 more of these since. These are also in the little square 3.5cm on a side plastic “perky box” but are quite a bit larger than the samples I had last time. These are almost twice as big but yet priced the same as the last offering. This time I have also made up a card that has a little more information on these. These are basically fragments of rock that show structures (“microbial-induced sedimentary structures” or MISS) that formed from microbial mats interaction with sediments. These particular samples are currently thought to be the oldest such known – being around 100 million years older than the famous Strelly Pool stromatolites.
Roughly 30mm x 20mm x 10mm fragment in perky box - $50

Please note:
Shipping: For small US orders $5 is now needed. Larger orders are now $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 now (thanks to yet another recent rate increase) around $17 for small, first-class packages (starts at $43 for Priority). I’ll have to custom quote any larger items/ orders). Registration (recommended on more valuable overseas orders) is $18.

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

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Blaine Reed Meteorites

PO Box 1141

Delta, CO, USA  81416-1141

email- brmeteorites@yahoo.com

Telephone- +1(970) 874-1487

One last note: The Denver Spring show looks like it is going to happen. However, it seems that the dates have changed from where they had been in “normal” years earlier. This year it will be April 8th-10th (at the Crowne Plaza – same place I set up for the fall show). I WILL NOT be set up at this show but I will be visiting it. So, let me know IF you want me to bring anything



CLAXTON, Georgia: Ordinary chondrite (L6). Fell December 10, 1984. Tkw = 1455grams.
This is the one that hit the back end of a mailbox and knocked it completely off of its post. I actually owned the mailbox for 5 or 6 years until someone made me an offer I “couldn’t refuse”, so I didn’t. I had some nice pieces of this years ago when it was first made available to collectors but have seen very little since. These are from a collector that kind of had a thing for this meteorite and bought up any piece he could find and afford. He has decided to let the extras go. I sold 4 of the largest pieces in Tucson. Oddly, I only sold one of the small ones (it was that “big money” coming to the show thing mentioned above thing I guess). These are all part slices and all are in some sort of display container. All have a label with them. I did manage to get those in the group photo but I will mention what they are after each item listed below.\
1) Part Slices:
a) .058 grams – 5mm x 3mm x 2mm - $50 – Hupe Collection label
b) .33 grams – 9mm x 8mm x 2mm - $200 – John Bryan Scarbough label
c) .420 grams – 15mm x 6mm x 2mm - $250 – Hupe collection label
d) .66g slice – 14mm x 8mm x 2mm - $395 – Mile High Meteorites label



NWA (6043): Carbonaceous chondrite (CR2) S2, W2. Found 2009. Tkw = 1220 grams.
This is one of the “miscellaneous” things I picked up in Tucson as part of a small collection. I question the “W2” in the classification work as this looks more weathered to me than that. I don’t see any real fresh metal visible. However, I do see lots of iron oxides (magnetite/ hematite) surrounding many/ most of the chondrules so I don’t question the classification itself (I also looked it up in the Meteoritical Bulletin and it certainly does match the pictures presented for this meteorite there). This is a “book-end” piece – an end piece that has been cut in half (the benefit is that it will stand up nicely on its own).
19.5 gram “book end” – 30mm x 23mm x 15mm - $250

NWA (7454): Carbonaceous chondrite. (CV3). Found 2012. Tkw = 6 kilograms.
This was clearly cut/ prepared by the same person who cut/ prepared the specimen above. This is somewhat weathered but that helps in this case. The weathering has made some of the chondrules stained brown/ orange and such and it makes them really stand out nicely. This has lots of CAIs (the things that were the first solids formed in the solar system that contain micro-diamonds) but they are all fairly small (and often wildly irregular shapes). Allende prices have gone insane lately (certainly for many auction results anyway) and this has brought interest and prices up on pretty much all CV3 meteorites to some degree. This piece, if someone where so inclined, could be cut into several more slices and an end piece.
39.2 gram end piece – 40mm x 30mm x 25mm - $400

NWA (8162): HED achondrite (eucrite), monomict breccia. Found 2013. Tkw = 297.4 grams.
Now I know I would have sold this if I had bothered to put it on display in Tucson. I put it on a shelf in a box along with other “new” things I had picked up at the show and kind of forgot about it. This slice shows a fantastic breccia texture. Among the best for a eucrite, kind of looking Lunar like, actually. I had a similar looking slice (of a different brecciated eucrite) that was almost twice the price of this specimen and it sold in less than a day after I put it out for display. Anyway, this is a slice I sold some years ago that has now come back to me (and I am happy to have it). It is a relatively thin (but solid – almost glass like) complete slice through what was likely close to the center of the original stone.
24.4 gram complete slice – 73mm x 58mm x 2mm - $295

NWA (8452): Ordinary chondrite. (H4), S2, W1/2. Found 2014. Tkw = 130.2 grams.
This is a nice complete slice of this quite small recovery. That is not to say there can’t be other pieces of this particular meteorite out there somewhere, just that they did not stick around with this one to get classified with it. I think the only reason this one got reported at all (as its size is so small, classification work so expensive and time consuming) is that the person that sent it in thought that it might be a type 3, and a fairly good one at that. This is quite fresh actually. It shows lots of metal and is only weather stained to a point less than many the Gao stones I have cut open in recent times. I can understand why the person who had the work done thought it might be a “3”. It does have lots of chondrules. This comes in a 80mm x 55mm x 25mm plastic display box and a Meteorite-center.com label.
13.0 gram complete slice – 40mm x 30mm x 5mm - $40

WOODBINE, Illinois: Iron. Fine octahedrite, silicate (IAB). Found 1953. Tkw = 48.2 kilograms.
I picked this up as I remembered having someone ask me to keep an eye out for a piece for them. However, I later remembered that they were looking for a “substantial” (50 to 100g or so) piece of it, not a “micro”. Regardless, I suspect I’ll find that there are lots of people that were looking for a piece like this (sorry, I have only one). This is a nice little part slice that looks to be mostly from a silicate, sulfide rich inclusion. So, no real fresh metal BUT you get a bigger surface area for the weight because of it.
.61gram part slice – 11mm x 8mm x 2mm - $70

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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.

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

January, 2022

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

TUCSON SHOW INFO: I will be on the road from January 25th until around February 16th. 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 28th. I will likely stay through the bitter end (unless security issues become a problem like they did in the “second week” of last year’s April show) which would be February 12th. 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.

 

ODESSA, Texas: Iron. Coarse octahedrite (IAB), Found 1922.
Here are some pieces that I have had easily for over 30 years. I had these on my “regular” catalog (a 3 page thing of mostly common and/ or small items for beginning collectors). I still have a magazine ad or two out there but I don’t think I have sent out more than 6 or 7 of these catalogs in the past year. This, along with the fact that I have sold all the other pieces of this meteorite I had this year, made me decide to go ahead and finish the job (I‘ll put Agoudal on the list instead for my “natural” iron specimens). These are all natural as found and, as such, certainly won’t win any beauty contests but samples of this meteorite has gotten quite hard to come by in recent years. All of these are “one of a kind” so I don’t have “backup” specimens for any of these, unfortunately.
1) Natural individuals as found:
a) 137.8 grams 60mm x 45mm x 15mm $210.00
b) 158.5 grams 40mm x 35mm x 25mm $240.00
c) 195.4 grams 45mm x 35mm x 30mm $295.00
d) 233.9 grams 45mm x 40mm x 30mm $350.00


AQUILE, Bolivia: Ordinary chondrite (H5), S3. Fell November 2016. Tkw = 50kg +.
This is the first ever fall recorded in Bolivia (surprising, as it is not a tiny country) and only their second stone meteorite (I personally found their first - a really ugly weathered 12g stone fragment called Sevaruyo). I held back on getting any of this, though I have a personal like of Bolivia, as it has been quite expensive (and still is to some degree. What little I was able to find available is still priced at $15/g (not much) to $30/g (most common). I picked these up from a Bolivian mineral dealer at the last Denver show. He is a nice enough guy but really, really tough to negotiate with (part of that was because he says that these pieces are the last available. No more will be coming out of Bolivia). Anyway, here is a selection of cut fragments and complete individuals. The cut fragments don’t have much crust (many, particularly the smaller ones, don’t have any) but most show the classic brecciated texture of this stone. The individuals are quite nice and I’ll include a note as to their rough (guestimate) primary crust coverage.
1) Cut fragments/ end piece:
a) 3.3 grams 27mm x 15mm x 4mm $40.00
b) 7.0 grams 25mm x 20mm x 8mm $80.00
c) 13.8 grams 40mm x 22mm x 10mm $150.00
d) 21.6 grams 40mm x 30mm x 7mm $225.00
e) 42.4 grams 35mm x 22mm x 30mm $425.00 – lots of crust on this one.
f) 83.8 grams 75mm x 40mm x 10mm $750.00
2) Complete individuals: Some (particularly the smallest) have areas of secondary crust.
a) 16.6g (50% crust) - $180.00, b) 30.7g (95% crust) - $300, c) 52.4g (90% crust) - $500
b) 108.6g (90% crust) - $1000


NWA (13417): Ordinary chondrite (H3-6 breccia), W2, S2, Found 2012. Tkw = 349.6 grams.
A single stone was purchased from a Moroccan seller during the Denver 2012 show. Cutting revealed an interior of lots of well-formed chondrules and some fresh metal in a medium brown matrix. I had this stone set aside for many years, thinking it was likely a type 3 before finally getting around to cutting a piece off and sending it in for research. Yep, the research work showed that this was indeed (mostly) a type 3, but it also contains some type 6 clasts (the research thin-section had a centimeter sized H6 clast), giving this the H3-6 breccia classification.
1) Slices:
a) 1.9 grams 25mm x 12mm x 3mm $9.00
b) 4.8 grams 25mm x 24mm x 3mm $22.00
c) 10.0 grams 40mm x 19mm x 4mm $43.00
d) 23.5 grams 47mm x 35mm x 4mm $100.00
2) End piece:
a) 80.7 grams 65mm x 40mm x 20mm $300.00 – main mass.


NWA (13107): Ordinary chondrite. (LL7), S2, W1. Found 2018. Tkw = 2320 grams.
I think this is the first time I have ever offered an LL7. To me, there is no question that this is indeed what this is. It has the triple-junction crystalline look of a eurielite or brachinite but has the mineralogy (mostly olivine and pyroxene) of LL composition (iron in olivine – Faylite – number of 27.7 and iron in pyroxene of 22.8). Not even a hint of a chondrule is to be found in this one. This is listed as “W1” but it looks, to me, to be a bit more weathered than that. It is not bad though it just has a nice medium brown color but no clearly visible metal and some cracking. This is the second largest specimen of this type meteorite known currently. I don’t have many (the largest part of this sold as an end piece to a collector) but I did save a number of complete slices which, I believe, are the largest slices of this type meteorite currently available. Of coarse, I broke quite a few up so those of us that just want to add a piece of this unusual material to our collections without spending a relatively large amount can do so.
1) Slices/ part slices:
a) 1.5 grams 15mm x 10mm x 3mm $15.00
b) 2.8 grams 20mm x 12mm x 3mm $25.00
c) 5.5 grams 22mm x 18mm x 4mm $45.00
d) 10.3 grams 35mm x 18mm x 5mm $80.00
e) 20.5 grams 40mm x 31mm x 5mm $150.00
f) 43.4 grams 77mm x 40mm x 4mm $310.00 – complete slice.
g) 92.7 grams 120mm x 50mm x 4mm $650.00 – complete slice.

NWA (13366): Martian meteorite Shegottite, Iherzolitic. Found 2019. Tkw = 417g +.
I think this is only the second time I have ever offered an “Iherzolitic” shergottite. This is a shergottite (basalt rock) but with lots of olivine. This particular meteorite is around 60% olivine (oddly, the olivine is the dark, nearly black, crystals in this rock. This is due to shock). This is really neat looking material. It has an interesting mix of black, green and tan crystals. Just showing pieces (and/ or photos) I sold most of what I was able to get of this before I could get it to a list. This is priced a bit less than ½ of the price per gram I got out of the NWA (1950) (the only other “Iherzolitic” Shergottite I have ever offered) I had a few years ago and that sold out fairly quickly. One note, I did not notice that the smallest pieces (mostly the 2 smallest sizes offered here) were not polished on either side until after I had broken the somewhat larger pieces down to prepared them. It really not all that noticeable (the reason I missed it) but now these are too small and thin for the crude equipment I have to even risk trying to do anything about this. All of these will come in a small plastic display box or small Riker box (these boxes are not in the group photo though).
1) Slices:
a) .29 grams 13mm x 7mm x 1mm $52.00
b) .54 grams 13mm x 10mm x 1.5mm $95.00
c) 1.12 grams 15mm x 13mm x 2mm $190.00
d) 3.1 grams 23mm x 19mm x 2.5mm $495.00
e) 8.5 grams 40mm x 31mm x 2.5mm $1250.00
f) 17.9 grams 75mm x 6mm x 2mm $2500.00 – beautiful ½ slice.


TRANQUILLITYITE:
Tranquillityite is one of three minerals discovered in moon rocks brought back by the Apollo 11 mission that were not known to exist anywhere on Earth. It is an iron, calcium, zirconium, yttrium titanium silicate/ oxide (say THAT three times fast). Two of these minerals were discovered on Earth in the next few years. Tranquillityite though held out until 2011 before any was found in terrestrial materials. It was found as an accessory mineral in mafic (magnesium/ iron rich) igneous rocks at six localities in Western Australia. What I have here are fragments of some of these rocks about an inch to an inch and a half or so across. I don’t have many of these (and don’t think I can get more right now) so I want to avoid selling any on person multiple pieces until I see that the initial order demands have been filled.
Fragment of natural rock broken down to around 3cm or so in size - $30.00

Please note:
Shipping: For small US orders $5 is now needed. Larger orders are now $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 (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. How ever, for overseas orders, it probably is best to go ahead and use my brmeteorites@yahoo.com e-mail.