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Ref # da43, DALGARANGA MES-A , Nodule cut and etched, Weight: 20.19 g
This is a very rare Western Australian Mesosiderite, Found: 1923
This is the REAL RARE STUFF not the highly oxidized Mesosiderite!
Sorry, Folks, but this is AUSTRALIA ONLY!!! No Export Permit!
Dimensions: 26.3 x 25.1 x 9.1 mm + 23.5 x 12.7 x 6.8 mm max.
Name: DALGARANGA MES-A
Class: Mesosiderite, Subgroup A
8.8% Ni, 15.5 ppm Ga, 56 ppm Ge, 4.2 ppm Ir
Location: 27° 43' South, 117° 15' East
Country: WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Date: Find: 1923
TKW: 12.2 kg
A number of small fragments of iron were found in and around a crater 70 ft across and 11 ft deep, but only one of 40 g was preserved in E.S. Simpson's collection, M.H.Hey, Cat. Met., 1966, p.127. Described with partial analysis, E.S. Simpson, Min. Mag., 1938, 25, p. 157. In 1960 a search around the crater yielded 207 fragments with a total weight of 1.1 kg, the largest weighing 57 g, of which about half were oxidised irons and half mesosiderites. Within the crater 280 fragments, totaling about 20 lb were collected, all of which proved to be highly oxidized mesosiderites..........
What we are here looking at is a piece of the rare irons of which some are displaying the kamacite-taenite crystallization even without etching. The Melbourne Museum has got only a piece of 23 g!
This is NOT the highly oxidized Mesosiderite of which about 20 lb have been recovered from inside the crater, these are the RARE Iron Individuals and part-individuals collected outside the crater!
DALGARANGA is the only known crater in the world created by a mesosideritic meteorite impact approx. 270,000 years ago.
Surely you don't need any more convincing that this is a real opportunity to acquire one of the rarest Australian Meteorites.
What are you waiting for?