DITTO And it looks like "gem-quality" hematite, too. If you grind it on some sand-paper, you should get a very shiny surface, as well as copious amounts of blood-red powder. I've got a couple of these beauties in my meteor-wrong collection. Yours is a "keeper". :-) Bob V.
------------------------------------- [meteorite-list] Meteorwrong opinion Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:39:45 -0800 Only "slightly magnetic", and density is far too low to be iron. Therefore definitely hematite. It will streak blood red. --Rob ------------------------------------------ [meteorite-list] Your opinion, please... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:02:14 -0500 An eBayer saw my meteorwrong page and asked my opinion of the following. I discreetly bow to those more experienced: ( the last two picts are small, sorry) Top Bottom Side Here is her story, "I picked this up in country New South Wales in a National Park Wilderness area. It is unlike any surrounding rocks or any that I have seen in that district. I have done quite a bit of fossicking for sapphires & rubies and seen nothing like this. The area is mostly volcanic basalt overlying granidiorite and some granitic areas. This may be terrestrial iron, but if so, it perhaps may have become airborne from the volcano?, as it is oriented and has a rollover lip. It is heavier than other rocks of similar size, but not considerably so, (125 gms), and it is slightly magnetic, but not considerably so. Size is 2.5" x 1.5" x 1". Incidentally, there is no industry within several hundred kilometres, and no railway line, so it would not be smelter ore or slag." I will pass on to her you expert observations. Thanks, Ken Newton #9632 ------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
