ONE DOLLAR!!!!? Could you kindly clarify if these kittens are free to a
good home for helping you out or what the benefit is for sharing the burden for
the outer scraps you are not as interested in having? I am sure a lot of
museums and scientists who are curious about "Hup�sque phenocrysts" would love
to accomodate, not to mention collectors! We'll take one! If this is an
"AD", I guess we are all out of luck but hope you can at least post whatever you
obviously will find inside there the deeper you dig:) No offense (I hope),
it is just not clear to me how you are marketing or offering this? Peace,
Doug
LOL - i wont give them away for free - but I'm not looking to make a killing on them either. I didnt include any sort of price or weights because I havent touched the stone yet - when I DO cut it I'd just like to recover my initial cost per gram, cut loss and wire cutting costs. At a minimum I'd like to take off a few thin (2mm or so) full slices to open up the face on the stone to the point where a huge phenocryst is sticking out of the side just bellow the current face. there are a few transparent phenocrystas in the current face so at least 2 slices could be taken off to show off these inclusions.
One thing I hate to do is butcher a great looking meteorite - and I dont like haveing a bunch of slices of the same stuff sitting around - hence my post to guage the intrest in this material - for all i know everyone that would have wanted a pice already got a slice when the Hupe's sold their stuff. - if no one responded in the affermitive I might not end cut cutting the stone at all.
Just for the heck of it - here are some pics of the stone as it sits. the one big phenocryst is nearly 2cm long! sorry for the poor images, it's rather overcast today and not very conducive to taking photos.
http://img223.echo.cx/img223/1116/ure0yd.jpg
http://img229.echo.cx/img229/8599/ure25mc.jpg
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