Fusion crust?

[Red-Coat]

Well sadly this rock will remein a mystery because the costs for doing a test accurte was going to be 420 euro incl. tax. so i declined. Well is still is the best rock i have found in 40 years of rockhounding and looking for that one elusive meteorite.

? You said you were going to send a 20g sample to NEMS as I suggested in post #11

They charge $30 plus additional postage to return the sample if outside the USA.

Did you do that or not?

 

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[rockpassion]

Hi, i have contacted the and got a respond with a list of regulations to accept a rock for research but no i did not do that because there where to many obstacles and to high risk of lossing the fragment during shipping. I tried a cocal lab from the natural history museum in leiden. but to no eveil as i mentioned in the last post.

 

[Red-Coat]

Hi, i have contacted the and got a respond with a list of regulations to accept a rock for research but no i did not do that because there where to many obstacles and to high risk of lossing the fragment during shipping. I tried a cocal lab from the natural history museum in leiden. but to no eveil as i mentioned in the last post.

What "regulations"? Care to share them by copy and paste?

And you're worried about the possibility of losing 20g of your 15-16Kg specimen in the mail? Seriously?

If confirmed as a meteorite (and especially if confirmed as the type you believe it to be) it would have substantial value. I don't believe testing will confirm it to be a meteorite at all but, as things stand, you have an unidentified rock specimen with a value of pretty much zero.

 

[rockpassion]

What "regulations"? Care to share them by copy and paste?

And you're worried about the possibility of losing 20g of your 15-16Kg specimen in the mail? Seriously?

If confirmed as a meteorite (and especially if confirmed as the type you believe it to be) it would have substantial value. I don't believe testing will confirm it to be a meteorite at all but, as things stand, you have an unidentified rock specimen with a value of pretty much zero.

well that clears it. no point to move further.

 

[Red-Coat]

well that clears it. no point to move further.

How so?

As I said, you'd be taking on $30+ gamble with a risk of losing a mere 20g of your 15-16Kg rock for a possible much larger return if your belief that it's meteoritic is correct.

You didn't respond to my query about what "regulations" you are expected to comply with.

 

[rockpassion]

How so?

As I said, you'd be taking on $30+ gamble with a risk of losing a mere 20g of your 15-16Kg rock for a possible much larger return if your belief that it's meteoritic is correct.

You didn't respond to my query about what "regulations" you are expected to comply with.

i trashed the email with the regulations but they stated the you can only post samples with the local mail so not with dhl or fedex etc. And yes i don't want to lose any amount of this rock. just look what black beaty is selling for. and make the sum.

 

[Red-Coat]

i trashed the email with the regulations but they stated the you can only post samples with the local mail so not with dhl or fedex etc. And yes i don't want to lose any amount of this rock. just look what black beaty is selling for. and make the sum.

Although ‘Black Beauty’ (NWA 7034) has been sold for eye-watering prices (a 31g piece sold for $43,750 at Christies), you’re being totally unrealistic.

The high price for that meteorite is from a combination of it being a unique water-rich Martian polymict breccia and that fact that only 320 grams of it exists (of which 30g is on deposit at the University of New Mexico and unavailable to collectors).

By contrast, you have no evidence that your rock is any kind of meteorite (never mind something unique) and you have 15-16Kg of it. You’re not comparing apples with apples and, as I continue to point out, it’s pretty much worthless without some kind of expert assessment to prove it to be meteoritic (or not as the case may be.)

 

[russau]

Years back I had what I thought was a Meteorit so I brought it to the University of Missouri in St. Louis ,Mo where I live and they checked it out for me for free and thanked me for doing so ! They said it was nice to have something else different to look a for a change. They had several people look at it. I thanked them and offered them a nominal offer BUT they refused it !and I bid them ado ! I don't trust the mail either !

 

[flyadive]

I had a group of rocks that I thought were meteorites. I boxed them up and sent them out for identification. One of them was large and heavy so I cut off a piece and sent it along with them. They ended up being Meteorwrongs!
They were magnet and appeared to have Fusion crust.
If you see a meteorite crash into your home or find it on the ice of frozen lake. Then you will have a meteorite!
Good luck and happy Hunting!