Hi, After spending about two hours of hunting I found a 34 gram fragment from an old weathered chondrite. The magnet jumped to it like a piece of steel. I spent about an hour walking around looking for the rest of the meteorite. From the looks of the fragment and surface that I was hunting it could not be too far. I decided to try the metal detector on the fragment, it was a real loud signal. Within minutes I found 4 more pieces 34,17,135 grams. All of the fragments were buried a couple inches deep. I had a loud signal about 6' from the first target. I started digging, the first 10 " was hard dirt with fist sized rocks. The signal got louder and I thought it must have been a hot rock in the hole. Four more inches down under some more rocks was a 2.65lb chunk of meteorite. None of the smaller pieces fit onto the large meteorite. The chunk looks like a third of the meteorite.The fragments all look the same, my guess it is all from the same meteorite. I will have to bring a shovel and dig the hole deeper. The meteorite looks like it is a OC . The total weight so far is 3.16 lbs. The meteorite is from a new area with no previous finds in Nevada. I will post some pictures next week.
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